Cotillion by Georgette Heyer
Jan. 21st, 2010 12:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meganbmooreKitty Charing’s penny-pinching guardian has decided to leave her his entire fortune, provided she marries one of his great-nephews. Kitty isn’t completely opposed to the idea, provided the right cousin proposes. Unfortunately, that particular cousin, Jack, a confirmed rake, doesn’t come. Initially planning to run away and become a governess, she instead enters into a fake engagement with another nephew, Freddy, so that he can take her to London and help her make Jack jealous.
In London, she is quickly taken under the wing of Freddy’s sister, Meg (despite the frightening consumerism, I’m fascinated by her fondness for pretty clothes in colors that are bad for her coloring) and befriends Olivia, a young woman who has caught Jack’s inappropriate attentions, but is also in love with Kitty’s mysterious French cousin, Camille. Not only that, but she also has to find a way to free another cousin, Dolph, from his controlling mother.
All the various plotlines are really fun, but with everything else that was going on, I think Heyer forgot to actually make Kitty and Freddy fall in love, and then she remembered at the last minute that it was a romance. On the flipside, this is the first Heyer I’ve read (of a whole three) where I really like both leads, and while I think Heyer forgot to have them fall in love, I’m more convinced that they’ll be happy in the long run than the others.
In London, she is quickly taken under the wing of Freddy’s sister, Meg (despite the frightening consumerism, I’m fascinated by her fondness for pretty clothes in colors that are bad for her coloring) and befriends Olivia, a young woman who has caught Jack’s inappropriate attentions, but is also in love with Kitty’s mysterious French cousin, Camille. Not only that, but she also has to find a way to free another cousin, Dolph, from his controlling mother.
All the various plotlines are really fun, but with everything else that was going on, I think Heyer forgot to actually make Kitty and Freddy fall in love, and then she remembered at the last minute that it was a romance. On the flipside, this is the first Heyer I’ve read (of a whole three) where I really like both leads, and while I think Heyer forgot to have them fall in love, I’m more convinced that they’ll be happy in the long run than the others.