{"id":131,"date":"2016-06-09T21:16:58","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T21:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/?p=131"},"modified":"2021-09-01T10:06:48","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T10:06:48","slug":"regency-review-an-infamous-army-by-georgette-heyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/06\/09\/regency-review-an-infamous-army-by-georgette-heyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Regency review: &#8216;An Infamous Army&#8217; by Georgette Heyer [Trad]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1320463470l\/311226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"450\" \/>I set out to read all of Georgette Heyer\u2019s Regency romances in publication order, and here I am at the second book, written in 1937, and already I\u2019m refusing to jump. The opening is a whole confusion of characters, so, naturally, I turned to the Goodreads reviews for advice. And find that this book is more of a historical treatise on the Battle of Waterloo than fiction. It is, apparently, still required reading for the officer training school at Sandhurst.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it may be picky of me, but I read for entertainment, not to be hit over the head with the author\u2019s depth of research. I\u2019ll take a raincheck on this one, and maybe come back to it later, when I feel stronger. Pass.<\/p>\n<p>Nice cover, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I set out to read all of Georgette Heyer\u2019s Regency romances in publication order, and here I am at the second book, written in 1937, and already I\u2019m refusing to jump. The opening is a whole confusion of characters, so, naturally, I turned to the Goodreads reviews for advice. And find that this book is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3957,"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/3957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}