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Originally Posted by CRussel
Her Regencies are certainly romance novels, but on a higher plain than 50 Shades! They're quite witty, very well researched, and really delightful. She also wrote some 1930's era mysteries, but I found them less appealing. I would add that I am not a romance reader. At all. But I find the Heyer Regencies appeal to me in the same way that Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster books do.
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Exactly so. While the romances are definitely romances, in terms of the eventual outcome being in no doubt - boy will get girl, and/or girl will get boy - the characters are enjoyable and the period detail is delightful. I think you'd enjoy them.