A review by ladytiara
False Colours by Georgette Heyer

3.0

While I enjoyed reading False Colours, it didn't quite live up to my expectations. The endless comparisons of Georgette Heyer to Jane Austen left me wanting a bit more. The book tells the story of aristocratic younger son Kit Fancot, who has to impersonate his missing twin brother in order to preserve his brother's recent engagement to an heiress, whose fortune is the answer to the family's money problems (which are mostly the result of the twin's extravagant, ditzy mother). Of course, Kit ends up having feelings for his brother's fiancee. Unfortunately, the romance is a bit dull. The falling in love happens mostly off the page, and the majority of Kit's scenes are actually with his scatterbrained mother. Heyer's writing is engaging, but her overuse of Regency slang was rather distracting. I have a couple of other Heyer books in my to-read pile, and I liked this one enough to give her another try.