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[Nyssa]

Originally Posted by Blossom

@Nyssa, You have your classics Regency books like Wikipedia describes and then you have the ones being published today from mainstream publishers. They have alot of sex in them and they are more romance then plot. There are some funny witty ones out there but most of them has modern dialogue or the plots and characters are so cookie cutter they all begin to blend in after awhile. Don't get me wrong I love romances set in the Regency period as long as they are true to their historical period and there is good characterization but those are few and far between.

Oh! So how does one usually tell a genuine from the fake (other than reading them all the way through, of course)?

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by Nyssa

Oh! So how does one usually tell a genuine from the fake (other than reading them all the way through, of course)?

If you read Pride & Prejudice, Georgette Heyer or Barbara Cartland. it's not hard at all to tell the difference. One of my favorite alive authors is Loretta Chase. Her Lord of Scoundrels is one of my favorites. For me I can tell right off if it's going to be true to the period or not. Dialogue can give it away because they talked very different back then. For me writing style is important. It takes some serious skills to write a good regency romance due to Austen and Heyer setting the bar so high.

[Nyssa]

Originally Posted by Blossom

If you read Pride & Prejudice, Georgette Heyer or Barbara Cartland. it's not hard at all to tell the difference. One of my favorite alive authors is Loretta Chase. Her Lord of Scoundrels is one of my favorites. For me I can tell right off if it's going to be true to the period or not. Dialogue can give it away because they talked very different back then. For me writing style is important. It takes some serious skills to write a good regency romance due to Austen and Heyer setting the bar so high.

Good to know! As I stated in the Jane Austin thread, I have an omnibus of her works floating around on my TBR list. I think I'll have to make sure I fit that in this summer.

Thank you again! Much Karma to you.