Sunday, 15 February 2015

Weekend...

Sunday, 15 February 2015 09:55 am
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...weird weekend. It started well - will hopefully end well - but I went to bed at about 1am this morning and found myself awake around 2.30am and couldn't get back to sleep after that! I eventually gave up and got up and watched it get light, but now I'm sleepy and don't dare go to bed cos I won't sleep tonight. Ack!

I did go off for a wee wander yesterday though, to Stourhead, which was feeling very pagan in the winter light. There were giants of trees...
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...and pools and groves...
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and grottos where lurked silent gods... )
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Captain Hugh Fanshawe returned from the Peninsular War with a leg that no longer works properly, thanks to a French musket ball. Now his fight against Napoleon is reduced to quiet, lonely days compiling paperwork at Horse Guards headquarters. His evenings are spent dutifully escorting his mother and sister to stifling social engagements, where his lameness renders him an object of pity and distaste. But his orderly, restricted life is thrown into sudden disarray with the arrival of Colonel Theo Lindsay. Theo is everything Hugh is not - a man of physical perfection and easy yet distinguished address. Surprisingly to Hugh, Theo appears to be interested in making his acquaintance. Lindsay turns out to be a most convivial companion, and Hugh finds great pleasure in his company. Their friendship deepens when they become lovers. In spite of himself, Hugh falls desperately in love. But when a French spy is suspected at Horse Guards, Hugh discovers nothing is as it seems... and the paper he shuffles from day to day could be the instrument of his lover's death.

Well that was a quick read - partly because it was, and partly because I enjoyed it enough to want to keep reading, which is no small thing! It took me a little bit to get into the whole Regency-language thing again, and it felt a bit too much at first, but it didn't take too long and then it was just the way they spoke and the rhythm of the story. I liked the characters, I believed in the places and the plot, and it didn't hurt that there was the odd hot sex scene... *g* I'm only sorry that Granger doesn't seem to have written any other historicals - yet, I hope...

Hold Your Breath, Sunshine


A ship is safe in the harbour - but that's not what ships are for.

~o~

I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. (Sarah Williams)

~o~

Could've.
Should've.
Would've.
Didn't. Didn't. Didn't.

~o~

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