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sophia_sol) wrote2019-07-02 06:59 pm
sophia_sol) wrote2019-07-02 06:59 pm
Friday's Child, by Georgette Heyer
More Heyer! Just about everybody in this book is the veriest baby without the slightest piece of common sense. They're kind of exhausting to spend time with! They're all generally good-hearted people but oh my god. What utter CHILDREN. (And, unfortunately, one of the romantic leads is a LITERAL child too, only 16 years old when she gets married.)
Also it's one of the Heyers that ends with a whole bunch of misunderstandings being resolved by having everyone involved in the various subplots all ending up implausibly in the same place to disentangle everything. Which is always stressful.
On the other hand I do rather appreciate that one of the themes of the novel is the way that there should not be a double standard between what's expected of men and women--Sherry thinks that Hero's behaviour is inappropriate when she emulates him, which makes him realise that in fact him doing those exact same things isn't appropriate either.
Also it's one of the Heyers that ends with a whole bunch of misunderstandings being resolved by having everyone involved in the various subplots all ending up implausibly in the same place to disentangle everything. Which is always stressful.
On the other hand I do rather appreciate that one of the themes of the novel is the way that there should not be a double standard between what's expected of men and women--Sherry thinks that Hero's behaviour is inappropriate when she emulates him, which makes him realise that in fact him doing those exact same things isn't appropriate either.
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