Everyone told me this was the best Heyer, and they were totally right. This is the platonic ideal of Regency romance. Sophy is somehow the greatest manic pixie dream girl ever and yet totally wonderful and lovable and perfection. She swoops in, is hilarious, fixes everyone up into the right couples, steals horses, shoots people, and is never obnoxious or eye-rolling. She also never has to be humiliated For Her Own Good, which I find often in books about super competent women. The side characters are hilarious, the couples are all good for each other, the plot ends with a giant operatic "I love it when a plan comes together" scene when everyone converges on the same place, and the hero is both brooding and stern AND hilarious and wonderful, and he is never taken in by Sophy's plans. This is just great. I would like to read this book a thousand times.
Grade: A
Originally posted 2010
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