But I was younger then, and had a particular attraction to the ubiquitous “jerk hero, martyr heroine” dynamic.Īll this is a long-winded way to say that I picked this up with some trepidation. I think I’ve actually gotten better about that, since sometimes these days I find myself rooting for heroines that other readers deem too unlikable.
But at the same time they didn’t seem like good enough reasons, and I always feel a bit sheepish when I don’t love a difficult heroine. In retrospect, neither of these were huge issues in my reading of the book – again, I really loved it. It wasn’t there for me, and I always felt a little embarrassed for the reasons – I think I found the old English dialect a bit inaccessible, and the heroine’s coldness off-putting.
It seemed like legitimate Kinsale fans had For My Lady’s Heart in their top two or three. But at the same time, I felt like I didn’t love it enough. When I read it back in the day, I really did love it – I loved all of the Kinsale books that I first read in the 1990s. I have put off rereading For My Lady’s Heart for sort of complicated reasons. This is the penultimate book in my Laura Kinsale rereadapalooza – number 11 of 12.
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