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Kate and Cecelia, two cousins living in an alternate Regency England where ma is real, encounter wizards, sorcerers, and mysterious plots.
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Dearest Kate, It is dreadfully flat here since you have been gone, and it only makes it worse to imagine all the things I shall be missing. Read the first page
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Dearest Kate, It is dreadfully flat here since you have been gone, and it only makes it worse to imagine all the things I shall be missing. Read the first page
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By Helen Hancox
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Format:Paperback
This book is a series of letters between Cecelia (Cecy) and her friend and cousin Kate. Kate is in London for her season but Cecy is still at home in Essex. They both stumble into a plot involving an evil wizards Miranda and Sir Hilary and find themselves helping different young men to thwart their schemes. Kate in London ends up in a fake betrothal to a Marquis and Cecy in Essex finds herself helping James Tarleton who is assisting the Marquis.
It's a fun read as the plot unfolds and the magical abilities of Cecy and Kate become apparent. However written as it was, without either author having decided on an overall plot, does sometimes show through. In a way it's two separate stories with some interweaving but each would work pretty well on its own. Regency detail is there although better editing would have been appreciated - as with most American-authored Regencies, our characters lapse into occasional American word forms ("gotten", "fall" for autumn, "write me" for "write to me", "in back" for "at the back" or "behind you" etc). This always annoys me but the otherwise charming nature of the book meant it wasn't too distracting.
In short this is an enjoyable read but it's not anything too special.
It's a fun read as the plot unfolds and the magical abilities of Cecy and Kate become apparent. However written as it was, without either author having decided on an overall plot, does sometimes show through. In a way it's two separate stories with some interweaving but each would work pretty well on its own. Regency detail is there although better editing would have been appreciated - as with most American-authored Regencies, our characters lapse into occasional American word forms ("gotten", "fall" for autumn, "write me" for "write to me", "in back" for "at the back" or "behind you" etc). This always annoys me but the otherwise charming nature of the book meant it wasn't too distracting.
In short this is an enjoyable read but it's not anything too special.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful
By L O'connor
Format:Hardcover
This is a wonderfully entertaining Regency romp, like Georgette
Heyer with added magic. A nineteenth century like the real one, but with magic a part of everyday life. Ingeneous plot, lively
interesting characters and amusing situations make the book a
pleasure to read. Not a single dull passage in the book.
Heyer with added magic. A nineteenth century like the real one, but with magic a part of everyday life. Ingeneous plot, lively
interesting characters and amusing situations make the book a
pleasure to read. Not a single dull passage in the book.
9 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
When I finished reading this book, I started again from the beginning; it really was that good.
This is a fantasy romp set in an alternative Victorian England.
The writers wrote the book as a series of letters, with neither writer knowing where the other was heading, so the story unfolds for the reader in the same way as it unfolded for the writers. It's not so much that the book is full of twists, but the usual plot imperatives are missing, so there's a sense of the unknown here that is missing from most other books.
Added to that, the prose is simple and flowing, the characters are lovable - or detestable - as required, and there's a sense of fun running all the way through.
Ok, I'm out of words now... time to press "send".
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A good combination of Regency and Fantasy
It was fun to read- it combines the Austen-esque focus on personal communications with the alternate reality of a magical England I had only seen previously in _Jonathan Strange... Read more
Published on 10 July 2010 by reader
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Adorable and entertaining.
I positively adored this book. It reads rather like Jane Austen via Diana Wynne Jones, with two spirited heroines who stumble across the evil plots of two magicians, entirely by... Read more
Published on 20 Jun 2008 by M. Atkinson
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A disappointing sub-Heyer pastiche
This book was recommended to me because I like Georgette Heyer. I was, however, very disappointed in it. Read more
Published on 13 Jan 2005
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Just like Chocolate
Reading this just like eating chocolate. You got entertained and can't get enough. The girls' wits and inner charm really made this book very enjoyable. Read more
Published on 11 Aug 2004 by Spy Groove
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Just like Chocolate
Reading this just like eating chocolate. You got entertained and can't get enough. The girls' wits and inner charm really made this book very enjoyable. Read more
Published on 6 Aug 2004 by Spy Groove
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