I didn't realise that this was a teens book when I purchased it as another reviewer says it is, if it is. The main female character and her friends are 17. However, a number of the heroines in Georgette Heyer's Regency books are 16+.
It states on the back of the book that it is histoically accurate re. research. Okay, yes as most of us know who know a little about the Napoleonic wars, Napoleon did escape from Elba and round up supporters. This ended in the battle of Waterloo. So that is correct.
However, her social research of the time is poor to non-existant. 1) As one reader has already stated, an unrelated male would not escort a young unmarried female to a ball. 2) Young ladies (under 21) who were unmarried, were expected to wear only white, or the very palest pastels as evening and ball gowns, to indicate virginal innocence. Under no circumstances would they have worn emerald green, especially to Almacks. They would in all probability have been turned away at the door. 3) Also, no young unmarried lady was allowed to dance a Waltz without the express permission of one of the Patronesses of Almacks, who would vet the male partner first before allowing the couple to dance. So Gavin swinging her into the "opening waltz" would not have happened. Not many waltzes where played at Almacks anyway, as even in 1815, they were considered 'fast' and not the thing. 4) Women didn't wear whalebone corsets in the Regency period. They came in in Victorian times because the waist went back to it's natural level and the hour glass figure was all the vogue. Regency women wore stays; either short stays (more or less the length of a modern long-line bra), or long stays. Stays were not reinforced by whalebone, rather the seams were were rolled and double stiched to give support. The were worn to support the woman's bust, and push it up somewhat (rather like a modern strapless, half-cup bra). Regency fashion was high waisted, just under the bust-line. Therefore, neither the waist or hips could be seen. Evening and ball-gowns were very low cut, so that the emphasis was on the woman's breasts.
However, despite the criticisms, it was quite an engaging story. Even if the 'bad guy' was far too easy to spot from the beginning.
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