![]() ![]() ![]() It has adventures and elopements and duels and disguises it has high romance and highwaymen on the High Toby. There’s also another hero who is far more perceptive than he looks, deliciously witty dialogue, and an entire ensemble of people who are as competent as hell at what they do (flamboyance levels may vary). Just to clarify, there are two couples in this book, and I am SO SORRY to disappoint everyone who just got excited about the idea of a heroine pretending to be a man meeting a hero pretending to be a woman and all I can say is that I, too, am now Very Sad that such a story does not exist – and if it does exist somewhere, please, LEAD ME TO IT. As a bonus, it also has a hero who dresses as a woman and who manages to be EXCEEDINGLY hot while doing so. It is also the very first romance of any kind that I ever read, and was instrumental in launching my lifelong affection for the ‘heroine dresses as a man’ trope. ![]() The Masqueraders by Georgette Heyer is surely one of the Ur-texts of the romance genre. ![]()
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