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I have read all of her Regency Romances over and over again for amost 50 years. They get better every time I read them. Inspired by Jane Austens comedy but with her own unique flare, GH added adventure. This is her first Regency, and unlike most RR authors she gets better and better. She is incomparable.

PS These are not bodice rippers.


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The Black Moth Georgette Heyer 9780553132397 Books Reviews

I purchased this Georgette Heyer offering somewhat pessimistically. I assumed, due to its low cost, that the odds were against a quality read. Wow! I was really surprised. Great characters, great story line, nice plot twists, and page turning action. I found Ms. Heyer extraordinarily skillful as she reveals the personalities of the Duke of Andover and Lady Lavinia.

The Duke is revealed as a real villain almost from the opening page. As the story progresses the reader likes him less and less. But, in the end, we find a man who, in his own way, actually has a degree of honor and integrity. Well done!

Lady Lavinia comes across as a self centered, selfish, empty headed, immature, childish personality from the time she is introduced until near the end of the story. Then she seems to blossom into a person the reader can relate to and sympathize with. Again, well done!

I expected to find a three star story, but have to give Ms. Heyer a full five stars for this offering.
They say this is GH's first book, and that is apparent when reading it. I sensed a certain immaturity in the writing. I could catch glimpses of her later genius, but it is not here in full effect. I tried to read the book overlaid with the knowledge that it was written by a 19 year old. In this case, it is very good, and it's really not fair to fully compare 19 y/o GH with her more experienced self.

With that, I was soon caught up in the plot anyway and enjoyed the book. (See other reviews for plot summary). The only thing that I really didn't like is that this book is not set in the typical Regency time period. I definitely prefer Regency. This book is set in the Georgian period, where the men wore wigs, powders and patches. Some men walked with mincing steps. I find all that a bit effeminate, and it was hard to imagine the heroine exuding masculinity, when he was fussing over his rouge pot!
I am an enormous Georgette Heyer fan. I read her regency romances again and again, like I read my Jane Austen books. There are similarities between them and many differences, as well. I do not compare 1 to the other, I just enjoy both. It is bedtime reading deluxe.

Georgette Heyer writes with skill, wit and her plotting is superb. Is is easy to denigrate a the genre of regency romances but there are writers and there are writers. Georgette Heyer is one of the delights of my reading life, I wish I had found her long ago, sadly I only came to her books a few years ago.

It is wonderful to me that they are all being re-printed in this lovely mass-market series, I thank the publisher and promise them I have bought them all. Which is my favorite? Close call there but I think Frederica wins with Sprig Muslin and Grand Sophy tied for second.

This was Miss Heyer's first book, written when she was (I think) 15 to amuse her brother who was sick. It shows that she is young yet all the elements are there, if not yet honed they are clearly present. I always adore her characters and these are no exception.

It is interesting to me, as much as I like her females leads, in her books, it is her men I dearly love. I suspect Georgette Heyer and I had the same taste in men.

I recently read an biography of Georgette Heyer, usually getting to know an author too well takes away from my enjoyment but not Georgette Heyer.

She was an interesting woman, deep and deeply private. Witty, strong and the backbone of her family. She only authorized one picture of her to be used, and that was reluctantly done. It is an odd picture of her, very old fashioned and restrained.

In reality she was a fashionable woman. tall and striking. Do a net search on her and check out some of her other pictures floating around out there, you will be amazed at who she really was as opposed to who she chose to show her readers she was.

A complex and interesting woman, a fine writer.
In the mood for a book featuring an elegant rake, rapiers, mysterious highwayman, a spunky heroine, an Irish romantic, adventure and misadventure? You'll find all that between the covers of this classic example of Georgette Heyer's Regency romances. An honorable and a dishonorable peer of the realm contest each other for the love of a resourceful and intelligent young lady who may prove to be more than a handful for both of them.

There's nothing on these pages that will tax your mind but there's plenty here to divert it and to delight the reader who enjoys period fiction and novels of manners that are peppered with occasional derring-do. Not too sugary nor too spicy but acerbic enough to add the perfect touch of tartness that keeps this novel light yet avoids being "light-weight"-- a tasty summer niblet of fiction.
If memory serves, this might have been one of the first, or perhaps the first, of Heyer's Regency-type romantic adventure novels, written when she was a teenager for the entertainment of a younger brother recovering from an illness. Many popular and best-selling writers with decades of experience under their belts have never achieved the flair for language, plotting, character depth, and period detail that Heyer had in this pleasant romp, one of her earliest efforts. No one would imagine a young girl as the author of this gem, and she'd only gotten better as she'd gained in experience. Heyer's other genre novels, the more serious historical novels and the (now dated) mysteries are good in their way also, but her romantic novels are exquisite--none rate less than 4-stars and many are 5-star masterpieces filled with fun and memorable characters.
I have read all of her Regency Romances over and over again for amost 50 years. They get better every time I read them. Inspired by Jane Austens comedy but with her own unique flare, GH added adventure. This is her first Regency, and unlike most RR authors she gets better and better. She is incomparable.

PS These are not bodice rippers.