"Devil's Cub", Georgette Heyer

This is not a romance (certainly not a 'Regency Romance' as branded by modern-day genre fiction). It's a rollicking romantic comedy/adventure, and a highly-literate spoof of the bodice-ripper genre, in which the author highlights the practical drawbacks of hysterical heroines, cross-Channel abductions (plans for seduction are scuppered by seasickness) and brooding and bad-tempered Byronic antiheroes. ( Read more... )