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LadyDanger
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 Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 4:36 pm Post subject: Stuffy, Uptight Heroes |
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| Can anyone recommend good stories with stodgy, honorable, stick-up-ass type heroes who get yanked out of their comfort zone? Historical would be lovely. |
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PWNN
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Judith Ivory: Dance
Loretta Chase: Lord Perfect, The Devil's Delilah
Mary Balogh: Slightly Dangerous, A Secret Affair
Georgette Heyer: Frederica
Connie Brockway: The Bridal Season
Laura Kinsale: Midsummer Moon
Mary Jo Putney: One Perfect Rose
Betina Krahn: The Book of True Desires
Sherry Thomas: Delicious
Patricia Veryan: The Tyrant [Golden Chronicles #3]
Eloisa James: The "B" storyline arc of Sebastian/Esme through the first 3 books of Duchess in Love series.
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Jillian
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The Mermaid by Betina Krahn
Scoundrel by Elizabeth Elliott
Mistress, Ravished, Dangerous, Desire, frankly almost all of Amanda Quick's heroes would qualify
( and her heroines are no doormats, either)
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Eggletina
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| Jill Barnett's "Bewitching" |
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Manda
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| Lisa Kleypas' LADY SOPHIA'S LOVER and IT HAPPENED ONE AUTUMN |
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Elizabeth Rolls
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| Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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The ultimate stuffy, stick-up-his-ass hero is probably Charles Rivenhall in Heyer's The Grand Sophy. To my mind he's a lot stuffier than Alverstoke in Frederica.
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mirole
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| This is a spoiler that cannot be avoided but the hero of Lady Elizabeth's Comet by Sheila Simonson fits the requirement. The book is amazing! |
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Rosie
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Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke's Heart - Sarah MacLean
She's No Princess - Laura Lee Guhrke
Secret Desires of a Gentleman - Laura Lee Guhrke
Scandal of the Year - Laura Lee Guhrke
Mr. Cavendish, I Presume - Julia Quinn
Wicked All Day - Liz Carlyle
What a Gentleman Wants - Caroline Linden |
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veasleyd1
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| Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 11:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Elizabeth Rolls wrote: | The ultimate stuffy, stick-up-his-ass hero is probably Charles Rivenhall in Heyer's The Grand Sophy. To my mind he's a lot stuffier than Alverstoke in Frederica.
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Or even more Heyer's duke (I forget the title of the book), his Harriet to whom he is so properly betrothed, and their efforts to get the beauteous Arabella a purple dress and duly deposited with her sturdy farmer  |
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Elizabeth Rolls
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| Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 12:37 am Post subject: |
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| veasleyd1 wrote: |
Or even more Heyer's duke (I forget the title of the book), his Harriet to whom he is so properly betrothed, and their efforts to get the beauteous Arabella a purple dress and duly deposited with her sturdy farmer |
I think you must mean The Foundling. I haven't read it in a long time, but I don't recall thinking Gillie (Duke of Sale??) at all stuffy. Just very young and unsure of himself. Not your typical Heyer hero at all. My memory of it is as a coming of age story. His uncle was fairly stuffy.
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veasleyd1
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| Elizabeth Rolls wrote: | | veasleyd1 wrote: |
Or even more Heyer's duke (I forget the title of the book), his Harriet to whom he is so properly betrothed, and their efforts to get the beauteous Arabella a purple dress and duly deposited with her sturdy farmer |
I think you must mean The Foundling. I haven't read it in a long time, but I don't recall thinking Gillie (Duke of Sale??) at all stuffy. Just very young and unsure of himself. Not your typical Heyer hero at all. My memory of it is as a coming of age story. His uncle was fairly stuffy.
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You're right. It was The Foundling.
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| Mary Balogh, First Comes Marriage |
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xina
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The Secret Mistress by Mary Balogh
Mr. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice
Sebastian from Dance by Judy Cuevas
I started a thread here a couple years ago on Stick-In-The-Mud heroes. I remember getting many suggestions there. I love an uptight hero.
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LFL
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| PWNN wrote: | Judith Ivory: Dance
Loretta Chase: Lord Perfect, The Devil's Delilah
Mary Balogh: Slightly Dangerous, A Secret Affair
Georgette Heyer: Frederica
Connie Brockway: The Bridal Season
Laura Kinsale: Midsummer Moon
Mary Jo Putney: One Perfect Rose
Betina Krahn: The Book of True Desires
Sherry Thomas: Delicious
Patricia Veryan: The Tyrant [Golden Chronicles #3]
Eloisa James: The "B" storyline arc of Sebastian/Esme through the first 3 books of Duchess in Love series. |
That is such a great list, I must get to the ones I haven't tried! Although I don't think I would describe Alverstoke as stuffy. |
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PWNN
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I stand corrected (by many) on Alverstoke - he is cool and snarky more than stuffy.
I also didn't find the hero from delightful Lady Elizabeth's Comet stuffy or stodgy at all - it's more about the heroine's initial erroneous assumptions. Though he is very honorable (and oh so lovely!).
Another:
Elizabeth Boyle: Something About Emmaline
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