Psst! I think you mean Friday's Child rather than April's Lady - April Lady is the one about the wife who can't tell her husband about how much money she spent on clothes. I love Friday's Child because everyone in it is so very silly - it's rather refreshing when the characters are obviously intended to be rather foolish, rather than the writer expecting the reader to take foolish antics seriously ^^;.
Horry and her eyebrows are indeed adorable.
Sadly, there's no regency writer who can quite compare to Heyer IMHO - but there's the caveat that I don't really read many romance novels ^^;;. I hear that out of more modern-styled regency novel writers, Julia Quinn is quite amusing. Canadian writer Mary Balogh's earlier works are highly imitative of Heyer, but never much more poorly written - her writing improves, but once she moves away from Heyer pastiche, her later style of plotting tends to be centered around Everyone Has A Dark Past/Secret Sorrow To Their Lives (tm) angst.
Also if you would like a regency alright, technically Victorian, novel but starring DRAGONS (and cannabalistic dragons to boot) please check out Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton, which won the World Fantasy Award for very good reason.
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Horry and her eyebrows are indeed adorable.
Sadly, there's no regency writer who can quite compare to Heyer IMHO - but there's the caveat that I don't really read many romance novels ^^;;. I hear that out of more modern-styled regency novel writers, Julia Quinn is quite amusing. Canadian writer Mary Balogh's earlier works are highly imitative of Heyer, but never much more poorly written - her writing improves, but once she moves away from Heyer pastiche, her later style of plotting tends to be centered around Everyone Has A Dark Past/Secret Sorrow To Their Lives (tm) angst.
Also if you would like a
regencyalright, technically Victorian, novel but starring DRAGONS (and cannabalistic dragons to boot) please check out Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton, which won the World Fantasy Award for very good reason.