Review: Truly Madcap
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 26, 2013
If you are a serious type of reader and into angst, this will NOT be for you. If you want to laugh at ridiculous, totally improbable situations (how many babies are in the Epilogue? A 4 month-old baby, Amy already swollen with another and a gazillion more leaping onto George, but Amy/Celine is still smiling and HAPPY?), you will find plenty, including my favourite - the Evil pirate, frightened of his Mummy.Or maybe the poetry is my favourite. And the aside, regarding the inn where unsuccessful, impoverished poets meet to tear apart and sneer at the poetry of successful, rich poets - how true is that!Or maybe the Duke in petticoats?Wylde is an acquired taste, but I like her sense of humour. It can get that little too much every so often, but this story is sold as madcap and that is what it delivers.A warning: read her works in sequence or Penelope and the Duke may be irritating rather than amusing. A knowledge of their history will make them less exasperating.