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Originally posted by: Foucaults-qalam
Actually, I loved Freddie in the Cotillion, BECAUSE he isn't pitched as the male lead. That's why the whole book works. Also, I felt, even when I was 11 and first read Regency Buck, that if anybody dared to be so high handed with me as Julian Audley, he'd get his eyes gouged out, no questions asked. I've never liked TDH silent male leads. Idiot yokels, the lot of them. So Freddie and the Duke of Sale are far more attractive characters to me than the 'stronger' male leads.
Yes Freddie (wondered if I'd remembered it right and was too lazy to google), even the name is so completely non-alpha male! But loved how she transforms him by increments so that finally it is he who rescues the heroine (again too lazy to google) from yet another scrape - with marriage licence at the ready😊
Interestingly, my favorites keep changing - so when I was in school, it was Venetia and The Grand Sophy. And then I went through a These Old Shades and Devil's Cub phase. And now it's the Masqueraders, Faro's Daughter, Bath Tangle and the Corinthian.
Would be brilliant if someone adapted her work for TV, although can see many fans shuddering at the thought.
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