Sometimes, I need a bit of comfort food, rather than more exotic fare, however delicious it may be. I can depend upon it to taste delicious, because it’s chock full of sugar and cream and chocolate and the other things that make baking a no-brainer.
In that, I see Heyer like some kind of simple, rich dessert. I want a story I can float along with, in which the good end happily and the bad unhappily, and there’s no deeper meaning than that. The first is that, sometimes, as a reader I just need a break. And yet, her books always bring a smile to my face. I have no inherent interest in Regency England, so it’s not the setting either. And it couldn’t be the plot, since you could see everything that was going to happen from a mile away. It couldn’t be the characters…they were all pretty much stereotypes, with a few distinguishing features added. I’d like to welcome Georgette Heyer to my blog, which is today’s stop on her Classics Circuit tour.Īs I was reading The Unknown Ajax, which is my sixth or seventh Heyer, I tried to pinpoint why I enjoy her novels.
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