The Grand Sophy

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Summary: My favorite romance of all time . . .
Review: I loved this book so much I named one of my own characters (Sophie Dempsey) after the heroine. Loved the huge cast, the interlocking plots, and the general good humor of it all. Second best romance: The Talisman Ring. Heyer shows us all how to do romance right.

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Summary: My favorite romance of all time . . .
Review: I loved this book so much I named one of my own characters (Sophie Dempsey) after the heroine. Loved the huge cast, the interlocking plots, and the general good humor of it all. Second best romance: The Talisman Ring. Heyer shows us all how to do romance right.

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Summary: Enjoyable historical fiction, well-researched
Review: If you like Jane Austen, try Georgette Heyer! This is my favorite of her books--funny, entertaining, and very well-researched.

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Summary: The Grand Sophy
Review: If you love english romances... then here is one that is witty, literate, and so incredibly readably. I have read everyone of her books at least 2 times. Many of them more. When I want to laugh or maybe just be amused.. I read Georgette Heyer.

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Summary: A Heroine of No Sensibility
Review: In general, I am not a great fan of Amazonian heroines, but I love Heyer, and I thought Sophy was 'vastly entertaining'. I especially enjoy the scene with the moneylender--such a turn about of the usually-menaced heroine motif!

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Summary: Awesome
Review: May I just say "Wow."

I bow down to this goddess of dialog. Seriously. The word play in this book makes me feel all warm and fuzzy and inspired. It contains arguments that convince the reader along with the other characters, it contains conversations that make your head spin with sheer verbosity and life.

I enjoy most of Georgette Heyer's books, but I think I liked this best of all. Sophy is officially my favorite heroine EVER. Grand seems like a small word to describe her. And it wasn't one of those annoying books where the author seems to think that stating the person is grand multiple times counts for making her grand. No, the things this girl did, calmly and believably, were so freaking cool.

I was sorry to see it end. And I will remember it and re-read it forever.

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Summary: Sophy's Superb
Review: One of Heyer's best!

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Summary: takes your breath away
Review: Sophy is such a power house that everyone just stands back and lets her work her magic. It actually took me a while to figure out who the hero in this book was...don't worry. I won't give it away! It is just so totally about her that you forget for a minute that this is a romance and that there should be a man she is pining after. You soon come to realize that she isn't the type however. Fun and fast pace...don't worry, with a whole family to whip into shape, she still leaves time for a very passionate ending embrace!

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Summary: Great character and a wonderful book!
Review: Sophy is the girl with the spirit you would like to see in every girl! This is one book that you could not bear to put down after finishing the story.

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Summary: Sophy: Control Freak
Review: Sophy Stanton-Lacy, a 19 year old so certain she knows what is best for everyone and so determined to get her way, that she will drive a team of half-wild horses for the sole purpose of annoying her cousin Charles, and she will kidnapp and then shoot the suitor of her cousin Cecilia simply to make him more sympathetic to her.
Among other entertaining pranks: she arranges for a massive dress-ball at her Aunt's house instead of the expected small family party, she invades the haunts of a criminal money lender and holds him a gunpoint to retrieve property of another cousin, musing outloud as to whether she really OUGHT to kill the man outright.
And yet somehow Sophy is charming and amusing and very likable. I've lost track of the number of times I've read this book!
But I would not like to have Sophie as a house guest!