Reading: These Old Shades

I posted on Facebook asking for recommendations for comforting and even fluffy reads, and someone suggested Georgette Heyer. I had mentally filed Heyer under "writers many people I know love but who I don't get on with", despite having quite enjoyed The Grand Sophy when I read it a few years ago, because I then tried reading Friday's Child and really didn't get on with it, and I'm not generally a fan of romance as a genre (I do quite like romcom films, if they're well done, and have no problem at all with romance subplots in books in other genres, but a romance on its own is generally not enough to keep me interested in a book), but I thought maybe I ought to give her another try (especially as someone else in the thread said she didn't much care for Friday's Child either) and downloaded a copy of These Old Shades and tried to approach it with an open mind.

Actually, I did rather enjoy it; the person who had recommeneded Heyer said they thought of her novels less as romance and more as comedy of manners with a love story thrown in, and that certainly seems to sum up These Old Shades, which features a girl dressed as a boy, children switched at birth, revenge, kidnapping and the flower of pre-Revolutionary Parisian high society. It is a love story, but it's also a story of family relationships and friendships, which I enjoyed much more. It's rather silly, in the way a lot of Shakespeare's comedies are silly, but it was a fun read and definitely fluffy and entertaining. I may well try more Heyer next time I'm in the mood for some fluff.