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This one I really loved! I was kind of down, and just came off two very serious books. What a tonic this was, along with another very lightweight Heyer I read that week, The Corinthian. Faro's Daughter would make a lovely film, no less than The Grand Sophy. Like most Heyer books, it has a setting beyond simply the Regency, in this case a gambling house. Not one of the great gambling houses of Saint James, but a fairly respectable one, opened by Deborah Grantham's somewhat flighty aunt, Lady Bellingham, who developed a clientele and a taste for cards in private life. It's not a gambling hell, and their tenuous claim to some rank keeps it just barely respectable. But not respectable enough for a young man of rank and fortune to consider marrying the charming Deb Grantham. And so the story begins.

As usual with Georgette Heyer, it gets going at a trot out the gate, where we meet the serious and single-minded Max Ravenscar, whose young cousin has fallen madly in love with a girl from a gaming house. Up there with an opera dancer. Max's aunt pleads with him to do something to rescue the boy. Though Ravenscar is loaded, he can be a bit mean about money. Even so he decides at once that the cheapest way out is to buy the young lady off, to the astonishing tune of twenty-thousand pounds, a very great deal of money. Well, he starts at ten. As he says, she'd be a fool to take less than ten, considering the fortune Adrian will come into very soon, when he reaches twenty-one. But the first time he locks horns with the beautiful Miss Grantham, the Ravenscar who's mean with money doubles down. And needless to say gets nowhere. Miss Grantham is very pleasant with Ravenscar, and likes him, until she realizes, to her astonishment, what he thinks she is. It's war from that moment on, between two very stubborn people. Although Heyer generally avoids the traps of aping Pride and Prejudice, there's no question Ravenscar's main Achilles heel is pride. Miss Grantham is hanging on financially, since the establishment never does well, and fending off various gentlemen, so she's got a fair amount of pride herself. From this point they're off, and it's a terrific battle of wills leading to an obvious conclusion, but a ride with some unexpected turns, one that's a great deal of fun. It's a fairly quick read, but I really did laugh out loud at several points along the way. Vauxhall Gardens is funny, but for me Ravenscar's imprisonment in Miss Grantham's cellar is the absolute highlight of the book, and worth the price by itself. The end has a nice little twist, involving Max's younger half-sister, the beauteous Arabella, along with Kit Grantham, Deb's brother, and some surprising entanglements. Another love story is engineered by Deb, who likes to engineer things. All in all, if you've got the blues, Faro's Daughter is definitely worth buying. I've got no doubt I'll be reading it again.


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Faro Daughter Georgette Heyer 9780099465591 Books Reviews

Set in the late 1700s, Heyer's novel about the beautiful Deborah Grantham and her verbal sparring with the wealthy Max Ravenscar is a real delight to read. Deborah helps run her aunt's gaming house in London and the young nephew of Max falls in love with her. Max hopes to extricate him from "the toils of a harpy" but his grudging admiration of her and Deborah's growing feelings for the seemingly hard-hearted Max drives this story. A kidnapping, a runaway, an elopement and a curricle race with a fortune at stake are all part of the tale of the intelligent Deborah, who is described as tall and "queenly", and Max who is rich and handsome but hard-hearted. How their prejudice changes to love is a delight to read.

One of the charms of reading Georgette Heyer's books is the fact that her heroes and heroines are all different. There is not always a handsome and pleasant hero, and the heroines come from all walks of life, some of them shy and retiring, others intelligent, or naive and even silly. But even with the inevitability of the "hero getting the heroine", Heyer makes us love them in all their infinite variety. Case in point is "Faro's Daughter" we can imagine Max and Deborah's lives together probably not easy, lot of arguments, but a grand and fiery passion that would be a love story to the very end.
I love this book. It has a truly ridiculous plot twist (at least one), including one that inverts the convention in romances but is nonetheless not advised at all in real life (no spoilers here -- and the resulting scenes are funny and touching). If you have a high tolerance for farcical behavior and if you are comfortable with dramatic mood swings, this is a book for you. The writing is sharp and humorous, the plotting quick and clever. Lines that seem like throwaways in the beginning of the book have deeper import later. Most of all, the heroine Deborah is a caring person who is quick to take offense, but also warm and loving, while the hero is -- well, his name is Max Ravenscar. For readers of Regency romance, that is probably all you need to know.
About five years ago, I made one of the best purchases. Georgette Heyer's books became available for for $1.99 each. I don't care for her historicals or her mysteries, but her Regency and Georgian romances are the best, so I bought 27 of them. Some titles I had already purchased for $8.99 or $9.99 so this was quite a bargain. I've been reading Heyer since high school and never tire of her stories. This one was new to me, and I found it delightful.

The ending was a little abrupt, with the hero clasping the heroine in his arms, and her melting all over him. She didn't really do a good job laying a foundation for this climax, and it seemed a little rushed and too pat, but the rest of the book was good enough for me to overlook it. That being said, this is not one of my favorite Heyer romances, and it will be a long time until it gets a reread. I'm sure I'll be rereading These Old Shades and Devil's Cub long before this one. Still, it was nice to discover a Heyer I hadn't read before.
This one I really loved! I was kind of down, and just came off two very serious books. What a tonic this was, along with another very lightweight Heyer I read that week, The Corinthian. Faro's Daughter would make a lovely film, no less than The Grand Sophy. Like most Heyer books, it has a setting beyond simply the Regency, in this case a gambling house. Not one of the great gambling houses of Saint James, but a fairly respectable one, opened by Deborah Grantham's somewhat flighty aunt, Lady Bellingham, who developed a clientele and a taste for cards in private life. It's not a gambling hell, and their tenuous claim to some rank keeps it just barely respectable. But not respectable enough for a young man of rank and fortune to consider marrying the charming Deb Grantham. And so the story begins.

As usual with Georgette Heyer, it gets going at a trot out the gate, where we meet the serious and single-minded Max Ravenscar, whose young cousin has fallen madly in love with a girl from a gaming house. Up there with an opera dancer. Max's aunt pleads with him to do something to rescue the boy. Though Ravenscar is loaded, he can be a bit mean about money. Even so he decides at once that the cheapest way out is to buy the young lady off, to the astonishing tune of twenty-thousand pounds, a very great deal of money. Well, he starts at ten. As he says, she'd be a fool to take less than ten, considering the fortune Adrian will come into very soon, when he reaches twenty-one. But the first time he locks horns with the beautiful Miss Grantham, the Ravenscar who's mean with money doubles down. And needless to say gets nowhere. Miss Grantham is very pleasant with Ravenscar, and likes him, until she realizes, to her astonishment, what he thinks she is. It's war from that moment on, between two very stubborn people. Although Heyer generally avoids the traps of aping Pride and Prejudice, there's no question Ravenscar's main Achilles heel is pride. Miss Grantham is hanging on financially, since the establishment never does well, and fending off various gentlemen, so she's got a fair amount of pride herself. From this point they're off, and it's a terrific battle of wills leading to an obvious conclusion, but a ride with some unexpected turns, one that's a great deal of fun. It's a fairly quick read, but I really did laugh out loud at several points along the way. Vauxhall Gardens is funny, but for me Ravenscar's imprisonment in Miss Grantham's cellar is the absolute highlight of the book, and worth the price by itself. The end has a nice little twist, involving Max's younger half-sister, the beauteous Arabella, along with Kit Grantham, Deb's brother, and some surprising entanglements. Another love story is engineered by Deb, who likes to engineer things. All in all, if you've got the blues, Faro's Daughter is definitely worth buying. I've got no doubt I'll be reading it again.