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skygiantsGeorgette Heyer makes for such good airplane reads. This time fahye told me I had to read Friday's Child, which is the one where two BABIES decide to get marriage-of-convenienced.
SHERRY: UGH! The most beautiful girl of the Season turned me down! I can't believe it!
HERO: That's rough, buddy. :(
SHERRY: I should just marry someone ELSE.
HERO: Yeah!
SHERRY: ...hey, buddy, how about I marry YOU?
HERO: ...well I am a sixteen-year-old orphan and I have basically never left this town so I feel like I will not make the best wife polite society has to offer.
SHERRY: On the one hand, yes. On the other hand, if we get married, I will come into my inheritance and we can buy SO MUCH AWESOME STUFF.
HERO: You make a compelling argument. LET'S ELOPE AND BUY ALL THE THINGS.
So in the first, like, two chapters, they elope and buy all the things, to the tunes of extensive facepalming from everybody they know.
GIL, THE SAGACIOUS FRIEND: Hero is a super sweetheart though. I wish ... Sherry had a clue in his head ...
FERDY, THE DECIDEDLY NOT SAGACIOUS FRIEND: Wait, why is Sherry getting married? I'm confused. Love hanging out with Hero, though, she's the greatest!
GEORGE, THE ANGRY FRIEND: Ugh, the woman I love won't SPEAK to me. Life is TERRIBLE. I would like to cry on Hero's shoulder and then fight a duel. With someone. Anyone. HEY YOU, WANT TO FIGHT A DUEL --
EVERYONE ELSE: Slow your roll, George.
The rest of the book is essentially a repeat of this exchange:
SHERRY: Hero! Why are you hanging out with those disrespectable personages!
HERO: Well, I mean, they are your friends so I thought it was fine? Is it not fine?
SHERRY: Hero! Why are you getting super deep into gambling debts?
HERO: Well, I mean, you do it, so I thought it was fine? Is it not fine?
SHERRY: No, it is not fine, it is STUPID. ...I am stupid.
HERO: I learned it from you, dude. I LEARNED IT FROM YOU.
GEORGE, THE ANGRY FRIEND: Hero, should I fight a duel with Sherry for you? I WILL DUEL HIM FOR YOU.
EVERYONE ELSE: Slow your roll, George.
It's a bit like The Convenient Marriage, except less annoying because the double standards are expressly pointed out; also, instead of being lofty and superior, the hero is as clueless and hapless as the heroine. OR MORE.
HERO: So you know how you said when we got married that we could both do whatever we want, that meant affairs, right? Does that still mean affairs?
SHERRY: NO IT DOES NOT STILL MEAN AFFAIRS OH MY GOD ;___;
GEORGE, THE ANGRY FRIEND: Sherry are you being mean to Hero because I am still totally ready to fight a duel! Any time! LET'S GO!
EVERYONE ELSE: Slow your roll, George.
Overall it is pretty charming and full of hijinks aplenty, although I will warn for two attempted Romantic Abductions about which everyone is just like "lol whatever." One is good-natured and probably deserves the "lol whatever" but the other one I feel deserves MUCH MORE CENSURE even though the abducted lady in question gets off a decisive victory and all the abductor gets is a bad case of sore shins, from kicking.
fahye told me I had to read Friday's Child, which is the one where two BABIES decide to get marriage-of-convenienced.SHERRY: UGH! The most beautiful girl of the Season turned me down! I can't believe it!
HERO: That's rough, buddy. :(
SHERRY: I should just marry someone ELSE.
HERO: Yeah!
SHERRY: ...hey, buddy, how about I marry YOU?
HERO: ...well I am a sixteen-year-old orphan and I have basically never left this town so I feel like I will not make the best wife polite society has to offer.
SHERRY: On the one hand, yes. On the other hand, if we get married, I will come into my inheritance and we can buy SO MUCH AWESOME STUFF.
HERO: You make a compelling argument. LET'S ELOPE AND BUY ALL THE THINGS.
So in the first, like, two chapters, they elope and buy all the things, to the tunes of extensive facepalming from everybody they know.
GIL, THE SAGACIOUS FRIEND: Hero is a super sweetheart though. I wish ... Sherry had a clue in his head ...
FERDY, THE DECIDEDLY NOT SAGACIOUS FRIEND: Wait, why is Sherry getting married? I'm confused. Love hanging out with Hero, though, she's the greatest!
GEORGE, THE ANGRY FRIEND: Ugh, the woman I love won't SPEAK to me. Life is TERRIBLE. I would like to cry on Hero's shoulder and then fight a duel. With someone. Anyone. HEY YOU, WANT TO FIGHT A DUEL --
EVERYONE ELSE: Slow your roll, George.
The rest of the book is essentially a repeat of this exchange:
SHERRY: Hero! Why are you hanging out with those disrespectable personages!
HERO: Well, I mean, they are your friends so I thought it was fine? Is it not fine?
SHERRY: Hero! Why are you getting super deep into gambling debts?
HERO: Well, I mean, you do it, so I thought it was fine? Is it not fine?
SHERRY: No, it is not fine, it is STUPID. ...I am stupid.
HERO: I learned it from you, dude. I LEARNED IT FROM YOU.
GEORGE, THE ANGRY FRIEND: Hero, should I fight a duel with Sherry for you? I WILL DUEL HIM FOR YOU.
EVERYONE ELSE: Slow your roll, George.
It's a bit like The Convenient Marriage, except less annoying because the double standards are expressly pointed out; also, instead of being lofty and superior, the hero is as clueless and hapless as the heroine. OR MORE.
HERO: So you know how you said when we got married that we could both do whatever we want, that meant affairs, right? Does that still mean affairs?
SHERRY: NO IT DOES NOT STILL MEAN AFFAIRS OH MY GOD ;___;
GEORGE, THE ANGRY FRIEND: Sherry are you being mean to Hero because I am still totally ready to fight a duel! Any time! LET'S GO!
EVERYONE ELSE: Slow your roll, George.
Overall it is pretty charming and full of hijinks aplenty, although I will warn for two attempted Romantic Abductions about which everyone is just like "lol whatever." One is good-natured and probably deserves the "lol whatever" but the other one I feel deserves MUCH MORE CENSURE even though the abducted lady in question gets off a decisive victory and all the abductor gets is a bad case of sore shins, from kicking.
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Date: 2014-04-03 02:53 am (UTC)