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Summary: The Nobody is appealing to all readers;highly theatrical
Review: "The Nobody" is that rare thing - a genre book whose appeal goes beyond its fans. The author has a very theatrical way with dialogue, resulting in characters who are charming and witty. It bridges the very tricky gap between realistic historical detail and current sensibilities. If the regency genre is to have a future, Ms Farr is in the vanguard.
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Summary: A "MUST-READ" for every Regency fan!
Review: After struggling through some of the worst Regency romances (by Hendrickson, Heath, to name just a few) this was truly a refreshing and wonderful book. Thank you Ms. Farr for researching the era properly, for having an actual plot befitting this era, and especially for your sense of humor so well portrayed by your principal characters! This "tongue-in-cheek" style was delightfully humorous but didn't cross the line into just plain meanness as some other supposedly funny writers have done! Please give us MORE!! And More!! Everybody who likes Regencys MUST read this one!!THANK YOU!!!!
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Summary: Amusing, enjoyable story
Review: Although the plot is rather standard Regency fare, the dialogue is quite funny and entertaining. It takes a while to get used to the characters' strange way of speaking (every other sentence seems to end with an exclamation mark!), but the great bantering and the nice pacing work very well. Strongly recommended.
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Summary: Sweet, gentle romance
Review: Aunt Harriet has offered to sponsor Caitlin and her sister, Emily for a London season. Although Emily is expected to make a good match, Caitlin is considered to be "on the shelf". She is determined to enjoy her time in London however and devotes her time to making new friends. When she makes friends with Lady Serena Kilverton she suddenly starts to move in very fashionable circles and ends up meeting the man of her dreams. Of course, the path of true love never runs smooth and he is already engaged to a rather nasty woman who is determined to marry well. In the end, things work out for the best and everyone lives happily ever after. Diana Farr has likeable characters and a sweet romance with just a touch of intrigue.
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Summary: Sweet, gentle romance
Review: Aunt Harriet has offered to sponsor Caitlin and her sister, Emily for a London season. Although Emily is expected to make a good match, Caitlin is considered to be "on the shelf". She is determined to enjoy her time in London however and devotes her time to making new friends. When she makes friends with Lady Serena Kilverton she suddenly starts to move in very fashionable circles and ends up meeting the man of her dreams. Of course, the path of true love never runs smooth and he is already engaged to a rather nasty woman who is determined to marry well. In the end, things work out for the best and everyone lives happily ever after. Diana Farr has likeable characters and a sweet romance with just a touch of intrigue.
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Summary: Sweet, gentle romance
Review: Aunt Harriet has offered to sponsor Caitlin and her sister, Emily for a London season. Although Emily is expected to make a good match, Caitlin is considered to be "on the shelf". She is determined to enjoy her time in London however and devotes her time to making new friends. When she makes friends with Lady Serena Kilverton she suddenly starts to move in very fashionable circles and ends up meeting the man of her dreams. Of course, the path of true love never runs smooth and he is already engaged to a rather nasty woman who is determined to marry well. In the end, things work out for the best and everyone lives happily ever after. Diana Farr has likeable characters and a sweet romance with just a touch of intrigue.
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Summary: Sparkling wit and delicious romance in a brilliant novel!
Review: Caitlin Campbell, daughter of an impoverished mere Mr, is enjoying a Season in London as the guest of her aunt, the widow of a baronet. However, although she's made friends with an earl's daughter, there are others who consider her a mere nobody. It is the consequence of hearing the Lady Elizabeth refer to her as such at a ball that Caitlin is walking home alone late one night. A strange man crashes into her, running away from some footpads, and as a ruse to evade his pursuers he grabs Caitlin and kisses her senseless. At a subsequent entertainment, Caitlin recognises her assailant as Richard, Lord Kilverton; and to her mortification he recognises her too. He begins to tease her, and she realises just how attracted she is to him - and he to her. But Kilverton is betrothed, and to the same Lady Elizabeth who looked down her nose at Caitlin. How can Richard and Caitlin find love, when betrothals are - for a gentleman, at any rate - as sacrosanct as marriage? Can Richard's sister Serena help at all? His irrepressible friend Ned? Or Caitlin's demure and shy sister Emily? (Plenty of secondary romances in this delightful novel!) There is also a further issue to resolve: just why was Richard being chased in the first place, and why does he keep falling victim to accidents? Could it be that his life is in danger? And why? Diane Farr is another Regency writer whose books I would order without question, without waiting for reviews. Her books are, without fail, witty, sparkling, romantic and very much in character for the period. She's been likened to Georgette Heyer, and with good reason. This book, her first, is a stunning debut, and deserves all the praise which has been heaped upon it.... I can thoroughly recommend Diane Farr, and if you like this book you'll certainly like her others!
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Summary: For those who love Georgette Heyer
Review: Diane Farr's stunning debut novel has been praised by authors of Regency romances and their fans alike. Written in the style of Georgette Heyer, it features quirky characters and true-to-the-period dialogue. The plot, while tried and true, provides unexpected turns that keep you reading. I rooted for the heroine to show everyone that she, like her author, is a somebody! It's a lesson we all could learn. If you love Regencies, you'll adore this one. If you've never tried a Regency, this is an excellent introduction to the genre. It's on my keeper shelf.
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Summary: Tin-eared and nowhere *near* Georgette Heyer.
Review: Don't believe anyone - especially on the back-page blurb - who tells you Diane Farr is "the new Georgette Heyer", or "worthy" of GH, or whatever. She isn't. Having pinched all her vocabulary, and most of her situations, from Heyer - which most Regency writers do anyway, since nobody else has undertaken the immensely specialist research of a 25-year period at the beginning of the 19th century in England that Heyer made her own - Ms Farr, unforgivably, doesn't know what to do with them. In "The Nobody" the hero Lord Kilverton and his friend Mr Montague switch from dandy's slang to proper English with no justification; Lady Lynwood uses mid-18th century expressions best left to a housemaid; and the haughty Lady Elizabeth Delacourt inaccurately, and very vulgarly, establishes a gradation for titles no aristocrat would dream of expressing. To anyone less tin-eared than Diane Farr, this is painful on the page. Poor Georgette Heyer! The 54 wonderful books she wrote beween 1921 and 1974 have spawned an entire sub-genre, the Regency Romance. Sometimes her successors manage to retain some of the flavour of the original. Mostly, and unfortunately here, all that is left are traces of Heyer's original characters and plots (Farr herself acknowledged her debt to Heyer in another novel, in which her characters attended the ball Alverstoke goves in Heyer's "Frederica"). "The Nobody" begins with a scene straight from Heyer's "Arabella"; Montague and Kilverton's first conversation is modelled on Ferdy and Marmaduke's in "Friday's Child"; the evil cousin and his disreputable ruined uncle belong in "The Reluctant Widow"; Lady Elizabeth Delacourt is a pale version of Charles's fiancee Eugenia Wroxton in "The Grand Sophy"; etc. etc. etc. Go back to the originals; Georgette Heyer should be read, re-read and re-re-read.
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Summary: well-written, funny, touching
Review: Don't usually like American regencies but a friend insisted I read this. I thought it was great. Looking forward to more from this author.
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