Faros Daughter

THE HIGH STAKES OF LOVESkilled in the art of card playing, Deborah Grantham, a gambler s daughter, uses that skill as her sole means of support as mistress of her aunt s elegant and exclusive gaming club in 18th century London The beautiful young mis must find a way to restore herself and her aunt to respectability, preferably without accepting either of two repugnant offers One is from an older, very rich and rather corpulent lord whose reputation for licentious behavior disgusts her the other from the young, puppyish scion of a noble family whose relatives are convinced she is a fortune hunter.Lady Mablethorpe was aghast Her young son Adrian was marrying Miss Deborah Grantham a gambling club wench Thus she sent her trusted nephew, the vastly wealthy, clever, and imperturbable Max Ravenscar, speeding to the faro tables to buy the hussy off To Ravenscar s surprise, Deborah turned out to be remarkably handsome, witty, and he could scarcely believe it well bred Nevertheless, he expected she d be grateful for the price he offered to give up her young suitor Arrogant Ravenscar comes to buy her off, an insult so scathing that it leads to a volley of passionate reprisals, escalating between them to a level of flair and fury that can only have one conclusion. Free Download Kindle ePUB Faros Daughter Author Georgette Heyer – kino-fada.fr Flushed with success from my recent reread of Venetia, I cast caution to the wind and decided to take on another Georgette Heyer Regency novel I should have known I wasn t mentally up for another contrived plot yet Even Heyer s witty writing didn t save this one for me.Deborah Grantham is a 25 year old with decent parentage, but gambling runs in the family and between one thing and another, she s ended up as a faro dealer at a London gambling house run by her aunt She s beautiful enough that Flushed with success from my recent reread of Venetia, I cast caution to the wind and decided to take on another Georgette Heyer Regency novel I should have known I wasn t mentally up for another contrived plot yet Even Heyer s witty writing didn t save this one for me.Deborah Grantham is a 25 year old with decent parentage, but gambling runs in the family and between one thing and another, she s ended up as a faro dealer at a London gambling house run by her aunt She s beautiful enough that she s attracted some attention from gentlemen who frequent the gambling house Mostly it s the ...Update I just reread this April 13 14th 2015 and it is every bit at good as the first time Far fetched and comical, it was just the sort of book I needed It had me laughing several times Georgette Heyer has written silly, spoilt and ridiculous heroines, she has made witty, wize and winsome heroines Deborah Grantham is the best minx of all She is on almost on the shelf and has little chance of making a match Her aunt has a gaming house with a E.O table and faro which adds up against her Update I just reread this April 13 14th 2015 and it is every bit at good as the first time Far fetched and comical, it was just the sort of book I needed It had me laughing several times Georgette Heyer has written silly, spoilt and ridiculous heroines, she has made witty, wize and winsome heroines Deborah Grantham is the best minx of all She is on almost on the shelf and has little chance of making a match Her aunt has a gaming house with a E.O table and faro which adds up against her She also has an abominable temper, thankfully not like the heroin in Bath Tangle, but one singularly her own Max Ravenscar, the Hero, is appalled when he learns that his young nephew plans to marry a gamin...I ve read this book like most Heyers countless times if I had been rating books then, this one would have been around 3.5 But now I m a lotfond of assertive heroines while both leading characters are very prone to irrational actions, I m looking at the original publication date 1941 If I was a reader in WW2 I certainly would have wanted frothy, fast paced fun, rather than grim reality But just to get an idea of the fantastic sums of money being thrown around in this boo I ve read this book like most Heyers countless times if I had been rating books then, this one would have been around 3.5 But now I m a lotfond of assertive heroines while both leading characters are very prone to irrational actions, I m looking at the original publication date 1941 If I was a reader in WW2 I certainly would have wanted frothy, fast paced fun, rather than grim reality But just to get an idea of the fantastic sums of money being thrown around in this book, check out this currency converter note it stopped being updated in 2005 Gulp the pace on this one never lets up Deb may be quick tempered, but she is also loyal, kind, inventive when her aunt needs help with her gambling house, she doesn t hesitate to step in, even though she must have realised that she was putting paid to any ch...4.5 starsCharming I smiled the entire time it took me to read this novel, the battle of the sexes of the first order set in Regency England Max is a rich, powerful, and arrogant aristocrat When he learns that his younger cousin, twenty year old Adrian, is in love with a girl from a gaming house, a painted harpy in his opinion , and contemplates matrimony, Max is aghast He would stop at nothing to cut the connection His first step is to buy off the greedy female In Deb, he meets his match 4.5 starsCharming I smiled the entire time it took me to read this novel, the battle of the sexes of the first order set in Regency England Max is a rich, powerful, and arrogant aristocrat When he learns that his younger cousin, twenty year old Adrian, is in love with a girl from a gaming house, a painted harpy in his opinion , and contemplates matrimony, Max is aghast He would stop at nothing to cut t...HANDS DOWN THE FUNNIEST HEYER I VE READ YETDeborah Grantham is a well enough born miss who, due to her father s impoverished circumstances, ended up being raised by her aunt, Lady Bellingham, who runs an exclusive gaming house in London In any case a little lord with a bad case of puppy love gets into his head that he wants to marry her, and even though she never had any intention of accepting, his older, scowly cousin Mr Ravenscar, decides to save little Adrian from the alleged fortune hunt HANDS DOWN THE FUNNIEST HEYER I VE READ YETDeborah Grantham is a well enough born miss who, due to her father s impoverished circumstances, ended up being raised by her aunt, Lady Bellingham, who runs an exclusive gaming house in London In any case a little lord with a bad case of puppy love gets into his head that he wants to marry her, and even though she never had any intention of accepting, his older, scowly cousin Mr Ravenscar, decides to save little Adrian from the alleged fortune hunter gaming wench I repeat, Deb at no point even considered accepting Adrien s proposal But Deb and Mr Ravenscar are two of the BIGGEST DRAMA QUEENS to ever exist and that s why this novel is so amazing hilarious She is so offended that he thought she was a ...I love it One of the best Heyer books I couldn t stop reading Fortunately, I could spare time for that So I have read it in one day all day.There wasn t a scene that I don t like You have many situations and brilliant dialogues between characters Both heroes have a spirit, strong personality No ninny And they play together or I should say against each other famously There isn t so typical for Heyer a hero who must rescue a defenceless heroine.What was shocking to me the most t I love it One of the best Heyer books I couldn t sto...Challenge completed This was book 250 for the year and also the perfect way to complete my GR reading challenge There s just something about Georgette Heyer novels that makes my heart happy and leaves me smiling It also made up for that crappy holiday book I read earlier today A palate cleanser, if you will But I digress I really loved the hero s capacity for jumping to conclusions well, after he was basically goaded to it and the rampant miscommunication and constant scheming on th Challenge completed This was book 250 for the year and also the perfect way to co...I ve given this a B for narration and B for content at AudioGals.It s been quite some time since I read Faro s Daughter, and given my memories of it are rather hazy, listening to this was almost like listening to something completely new It s a little different to many of the author s other romances in that the heroine, while certainly well born, is not respectable because she runs the genteel gaming establishment that is owned by her aunt, Lady Bellingham It also contains one of the most h I ve given this a B for narration and B for content at AudioGals.It s been quite some time since I read Faro s Daughter, and given my memories of it are rather hazy, listening to this was almost like listening to something completely new It s a little different to many of the author s other romances in that the heroine, w...2.5This isn t the first book with this theme I ve read so far A mistaken opinion is hardly a boring theme It works quite well in romances I didn t like the characters, but while I simply didn t like Deborah Grantham and Max Ravenscar or their cousins and friends, her aunt was the most despicable person in the whole book Her one and only interest is money and what could or should Deb do to deal with it It was disgusting It might be just me but I felt sick while reading the scenes when she w 2.5This isn t the first book with this theme I ve read so far A mistaken opinion is hardly a boring theme It works quite well in romances I didn t like the characters, but while I simply didn t like Deborah Grantham and Max Ravenscar or their cousins and friends, her aunt was the most despicable person in the whole book Her one and only interest is money and what could or should Deb do to deal with it It was...The heroine needed a good smack upside the head You are not a martyr headed to the stake, GOOD LORD The hero, likewise, thoughso in the latter part of the book There s waaaymisogyny than is at all necessary Heyer seems to deliberately have neither of them get it say it for the purposes of drawing out the book another hundred pages Could ve been over in fifty, done this way Could have beeninteresting, done another But I ...

• English
• 24 September 2017
Georgette Heyer
• Paperback
• 288 pages
• 0099465590
• Georgette Heyer
• Faros Daughter