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A review by runjnee
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
5.0
**spoiler alert**
Not sure I know any women who Don't like this book!
It's a wonderfully angsty period of history, the beginnings of the French revolution. A French beauty-and-good-brains is married to a lazy English aristocrat. She has a dark secret in her past that has led to her estrangement from her husband, and it haunts her throughout the book. She is blackmailed into helping Chauvelin, the new French envoy, identify the mysterious Scarlet Pimpernel - leader of a gang assisting aristocrats escape the violent persecution in France. She cooperates, and later finds out her very husband is the Pimpernel - guilty and fearful, she follows him to France (where he goes to help her brother) and desperately tries to warn him. He is one step ahead and outwits Chauvelin anyway, but is amazed by Marguerite's ardour in pursuing him and their marriage appears to be once again happy.
A daring plot, a dashing hero and a lovely lady - with the appropriate exclamations of love here and there, this is the perfect book to look respectable And hide under your covers to read at night. How you'll wish to have a man like Percy Blakeney, how you'll wish to be in Marguerite place because you Know you'd be better than her, how you wish such romance existed in your life!
Well, silly me, the little giggling girl got out again. But the point is, it's a guilty pleasure to read this book and you needn't be ashamed you love it!
Not sure I know any women who Don't like this book!
It's a wonderfully angsty period of history, the beginnings of the French revolution. A French beauty-and-good-brains is married to a lazy English aristocrat. She has a dark secret in her past that has led to her estrangement from her husband, and it haunts her throughout the book. She is blackmailed into helping Chauvelin, the new French envoy, identify the mysterious Scarlet Pimpernel - leader of a gang assisting aristocrats escape the violent persecution in France. She cooperates, and later finds out her very husband is the Pimpernel - guilty and fearful, she follows him to France (where he goes to help her brother) and desperately tries to warn him. He is one step ahead and outwits Chauvelin anyway, but is amazed by Marguerite's ardour in pursuing him and their marriage appears to be once again happy.
A daring plot, a dashing hero and a lovely lady - with the appropriate exclamations of love here and there, this is the perfect book to look respectable And hide under your covers to read at night. How you'll wish to have a man like Percy Blakeney, how you'll wish to be in Marguerite place because you Know you'd be better than her, how you wish such romance existed in your life!
Well, silly me, the little giggling girl got out again. But the point is, it's a guilty pleasure to read this book and you needn't be ashamed you love it!