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Judith Proctor's Reviews > Sylvester or The Wicked Uncle
Sylvester or The Wicked Uncle
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A young woman's romantic novel runs into problems, when she realizes that the villain of her book bears a much greater resemblance than she expected to a real person...
This is probably the funniest Heyer novel that I've read yet. Some of the characters are gloriously over the top: the mother who adors her baby boy all the time except when he's noisy, needs someone to play with, have a story read to him, etc. ( ie. she only really likes him, when someone else is looking after him but not the reality)
There is a cheerfully over the top fop with every single exaggerated item with clothing and jewelry that you could possibly wish for.
And a little boy who has picked up an awful lot of language he shouldn't have from the stable hands - and who then produces it at just the most in-opportune moment.
All in all, plenty of laughs, as well as a wonderfully mismatched couple who do manage to get together eventually, just in time for the required happy ending.
This is probably the funniest Heyer novel that I've read yet. Some of the characters are gloriously over the top: the mother who adors her baby boy all the time except when he's noisy, needs someone to play with, have a story read to him, etc. ( ie. she only really likes him, when someone else is looking after him but not the reality)
There is a cheerfully over the top fop with every single exaggerated item with clothing and jewelry that you could possibly wish for.
And a little boy who has picked up an awful lot of language he shouldn't have from the stable hands - and who then produces it at just the most in-opportune moment.
All in all, plenty of laughs, as well as a wonderfully mismatched couple who do manage to get together eventually, just in time for the required happy ending.