The Tenacious Miss Tamerlane by Kasey Michaels
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
The Tenacious Miss Tamerlane reads like really over-the-top Georgette Heyer fan-fiction. It's extremely silly, humorous at times, painful often, and thankfully a quick read. This may actually be the book from which the term 'Regency Romp' was coined because I've never read anything that fits the bill more than this.
Country bumpkin Tansy finds herself living with distant relatives for a season in London, meddling in their household while they try to keep her from becoming a social disaster and she tries to keep the young debutante from being so stupid as to ruin herself. The scrapes both girls get into are downright unbelievable at times.
The cast of characters is irritating more often than amusing. The hero and heroine spend all their time vascillating between yelling at each other and kissing each other. The Duke is willfully blind, and the heroine is willfully ignorant and headstrong (oops, I think that's supposed to be 'tenacious'). Aside from them, we have an air-headed sister who purposely tries to ruin herself multiple times, servants without any sense, and to top it all off, an aunt who speaks - literally! - only in quotations. One of my greatest hopes throughout is that the aunt will be shocked into at least one normal statement as part of the wrap-up. Unfortunately not.
Ultimately, this reads like a set of outrageous caricatures all thrown together, and although I was forced to laugh at times, it was mainly due to the ludicrousness of it. I wonder if the author intended to write a work of satire.
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