La Petite Four by Regina Scott

[meganbmoore]

A YA regency romance, this is about Emily Southwell, a young lady seeking recognition as a painter. A week before the comeout ball for Emily and her three best friends, where Emily hopes to display her paintings, Emily learns that she is engaged to marry Lord Robert Townsend, a man she despises. Even worse, he plans for them to marry the day before the ball, and then leave town.

It’s YA, so I’ll ignore the bit about a Regency High Society wedding involving the nobility supposedly being pulled off within a week of it being announced.

Emily isn’t going down without a fight, so she and her friends set out to find out what Robert’s really like, only to discover that the woman he supposedly loved died just days before he proposed to Emily, and that he seems to be up to other illegal activities.

This is one of those YA that I kind of wish I’d read at the right age, when I would have thought it was the most exciting and romantic thing ever, especially Emily’s scenes with James Cropper, a mysterious man also investigating Robert. As it is, it was a fun bit of fluff, but not much else. It did make me remember that I have a lot of non-YA Regencies waiting for me to read them, though.

Comments

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

which is not as annoying as if we had to suffer from a long history of institutional imperialism from the Anglophone world, but still a little bit annoying.

May I ask what your icon is from? And is it something want to watch? I love the character design!

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

My icon's of Michiko from Michiko e Hatchin. It might possibly be something you'd like! It's about Michiko, a woman who was framed for murder and sent to prison for it, who breaks out of prison to find the daughter of the man she loved (...and who unfortunately is probably the one who framed her in the first place). It's by the same studio who did Samurai Champloo and the music's by the guy who directed both that and Cowboy Bebop, so if you've seen either of those, you'll get a good idea of the overall feel of the series. (It draws its influences from a 70s exploitation film type style.) It's set in a pseudo-Brazil country and surprisingly enough, there's a good amount of ethnic diversity for an anime and the main characters are all female.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

That does sound like something I want to watch! Loved Cowboy Bebop and thought Samurai Champloo was okay and that's a very intriguing summary, thanks for telling me :D

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

Glad to be of service! :)

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Oh, MY. I may need to look into this one YESTERDAY.

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

Just wait. I'm test-driving a new series that just started this season (Michiko e Hatchin is from last season, technically, even though it's still airing), which is about a former ballerina who rides a transforming, robotic motorcycle against a backdrop of civil unrest against this crazy militaristic world government!

(Okay, that summary just sounds crazy but the first three episodes have been really good!)