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| Charity Girl | 
 enlarge | Author: Georgette Heyer
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 106476
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.2 x 1
ISBN: 1402213506
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.912
EAN: 9781402213502
ASIN: 1402213506
Publication Date: September 1, 2008
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 So-so April 12, 2008
Because he kept racing from one town to another to try to fix the problems of a girl named Charity, there really wasn't much time spent between the hero, Ashley, and heroine, Henrietta. We are made to understand that Ashley and Henrietta have known each other all their lives and, after a whole lot of plot spent on resolving events concerning the rather insipid Charity and a series of other characters, we are to assume that Ashley and Henrietta are now in love. Just like that.
Don't get me wrong, I loved both Ashley and Henrietta. Especially Henrietta as she is one of Heyer's older heroines (and I do love the older heroines). I just needed a little more time spent on developing a relationship between the main characters. Something, perhaps, akin to Bath Tangle.
 marry your best friend.... June 14, 2008
I really liked this Heyer. Unlike many of the silly "love at first sight" stories which are found in my least favorite Heyers (where "offers" are made within days of a couple meeting), this book is about dear friends who have a second chance to find love together.
The characters are realistic and likeable-- a pleasure to spend time with. Not a fevered sort of romance, a quiet comedy of manners and real love.
Disappointed October 11, 2008
I love Georgette Heyer books and I was thrilled when I saw "Charity Girl" which for me was a new Georgette Heyer. It didn't live up to all her other books. The plot was weak and the lead characters barely interacted with each other. Worse the book was all "tell" and barely any show. Still the characterizations were, as usual for a Georgette Heyer book, so well done that Des and Hetta felt like real people.
One definite negative distraction was the typesetting. No one went through and removed the hyphens that were used nearly forty years ago when a word was split in two at the end of a line. The new typesetting has these hyphenated words in the middle of a line. I hope if there is another edition put out in the future they are removed.
Charity Girl October 21, 2008
Viscount Ashley Desford meets Charity(aka Cherry) Steane at a gathering while visiting his aunt. The next day as he returns to his London home, he encounters her walking on a lonely road and seeing the peril that she could fall into, takes her to his best friend Henrietta(Hetta) Silverdale's house. So begins a comedy of errors and misunderstandings as Desford tries to find Cherry's grandfather and avoid scandal.
All the main characters were very likable and even the baddies give the reader a chuckle. One of the biggest problems with this book is that I believe that the novel may have benefited from being shorter because there were parts of it that I was not bored with but certainly not interested in. A prime example of this is when Desford sets off to find Cherry's grandfather. The long descriptions of the journey there and back were somewhat tedious and I was impatient to hear more about the main characters not about road travels, broken wheels and horses going lame. Another part of the story that was not as well handled was the romance between the two lovers(sorry I will not tell who these are, you will have to find that out yourself). Not enough time was spent developing that story line and the reader is left to fill in their back story. By the time they get together, you are happy for them but its hard to feel very invested because you are not given the opportunity.
It wasn't all that I thought it was going to be but it was not bad at all. Something tells me that this book is not Georgette Heyer at her best. All in all an entertaining read.
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