Review: Delightful, Frothy, Tale
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 15, 2013
This is my second of Ms. Wylde's books - I read The Wicked Wager a bit ago and truly enjoyed it. Penelope was just as much fun. These books are not to be taken seriously - they are farces and knowing that the reader just need go along for a very enjoyable ride. The characters here are delightful; we have Penelope herself, a poor girl from "the village" brought to Town for a season thanks to her dead mother's relationship with the Duke's mother. The Duke is all that is proper except when he dons his fake mustache (you will have to read the book to find out why he does that.) The Dowager Duchess knows just what she is doing by bringing such a free spirit into her household but she did not count on Lady Bathsheba - Penelope's pet goat.Yes, you read that correctly, I wrote goat. Could this be any more delightful?Penelope is tutored in all things ton related and she is launched into society to complete and utter....disaster. Will she ever find a husband? She can't go back home - her evil stepmother has told her she is not welcome any longer. What shall she do?This book is light, frothy, silly fun! A delight to read and so very easy to just get lost in Penelope's slightly off center world. The main characters are quite well rounded - even Lady Bathsheba although I must comment that goats maaaa not baaaa - it's the goatherd in me. Sheep baaa. Other than that if you are looking for a page turning escape from the boredom of every day life you couldn't find a better place to run than into the utterly crazy world that hold Penelope at its center.4.5