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A review by thunguyen
False Colours by Georgette Heyer
3.0
What I love most about reading Georgette Heyer books is that her books are never formulaic. They're always funny and serve as comedy, but the characters are never the same, even the side characters.
False Colours is fun from the onset. What a fix our hero found himself in, having to masquerade as his twin brother to maintain the twin's convenient engagement to their spendthrift mother's indifferent god-daughter. Set against a whole cast of frivolous persons of the "ton", yet GH didn't feel the need to make our hero a grumpy straight-laced man in contrast, or a victim of the havey cavey scheme, in fact, Kit was equally mischievous and fun-loving. Placed next to level-headed yet also playful Cressy, it's an instant match.
If there is anything being repeated in GH's books, it's the easy friendship between the couple in her romances. And I think a lot of modern romances need that desperately. Enough with heart wrenching angst and hot sensual desire that in real life don't usually make long-lasting marriages, give us understanding and open conversation, these old books provide a good lesson for healthy relationships. Besides a good laugh.
The only problem I have with this book is that it is unnecessarily long. Luckily I listened to an audio book and could tune out when it went on and on about who-knew-what.
False Colours is fun from the onset. What a fix our hero found himself in, having to masquerade as his twin brother to maintain the twin's convenient engagement to their spendthrift mother's indifferent god-daughter. Set against a whole cast of frivolous persons of the "ton", yet GH didn't feel the need to make our hero a grumpy straight-laced man in contrast, or a victim of the havey cavey scheme, in fact, Kit was equally mischievous and fun-loving. Placed next to level-headed yet also playful Cressy, it's an instant match.
If there is anything being repeated in GH's books, it's the easy friendship between the couple in her romances. And I think a lot of modern romances need that desperately. Enough with heart wrenching angst and hot sensual desire that in real life don't usually make long-lasting marriages, give us understanding and open conversation, these old books provide a good lesson for healthy relationships. Besides a good laugh.
The only problem I have with this book is that it is unnecessarily long. Luckily I listened to an audio book and could tune out when it went on and on about who-knew-what.