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Fools Masquerade (Paperback)

by Joan Wolf (Author)
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3.0 out of 5 stars Nice book but too many gaps in the plot..., Sep 5 2001
While I enjoyed the old hoary premise (girl pretends to be boy), I found myself irritated by many of the premises and plot gaps. For example, Valentine's naivete about the dangers facing even a youth travelling with an expensive horse. The failure of the staff or the castle steward to question her need for a private room, or her refusal to obtain a new wardrobe. The apparently sudden discovery by the Earl of Valentine's sex (no build up there). The almost equally sudden decision that they must marry for the sake of propriety. [Come on!].

Not to mention the constant harping on Richard III - the name of the Earl "Diccon", his pro-Richard sympathies, the historical sympathies of his family. It was hard to believe that the Tudors and the Stuarts would have let such a family survive, after destroying the Nevilles and the Staffords. The long separation between the hero and heroine (when she decamps to her parents and then goes to London) irritates, as much as the Earl's apparently sudden realization that Valentine is the woman for him. Here maybe it is Valentine's perception (the story is told in the first person) that is at stake.

I have been listing some of the things that irritated me to explain why I gave this book only three stars. I thought the beginning very promising, and the idea of a cross-dressing heroine (borrowed from Shakespeare and Heyer) very interesting. However, the rest of the book did not quite live up to this beginning - and Valentine's decisions and motivations seemed rather erratic, not to say, immature. Yes, there is some humor, and both the hero and heroine are quite attractive. But frankly I saw Valentine as being way too young and immature for Diccon, Earl of Leyburne.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Care for a little Richard 3rd with your 12th Night?, Jun 15 2001
By HallowKitty (Honolulu, HI United States) - See all my reviews
When Valentine's father dies, rather than go to her estranged grandparents she prefers to hit the open road (in disguise as a boy, naturally, thus the title) relying on her talent with horses to get by. She winds up working for Diccon Leyburn, an extremely charismatic and feudal-type lord and it is there that our story really begins. While this is the usual girl-disguised-as-boy type romance that we have seen since Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (which is quoted as chapter openers throughout the book), Joan Wolf does a great job re-telling this type of tale. Valentine doesn't lose her sense of humour or, more importantly, her backbone although she has come down with a serious case of hero-worship. Diccon, despite the feudal tendencies and some idiosyncrasies regarding Richard III, can also display quite a sense of humour himself and is more than adequate as our hero. One of my favorite Joan Wolf regencies, I highly recommend this one.
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