A truly awesome book. Sweet, clean Georgian romance with an absorbing story about a viscount's family and their nouveau-riche neighbors. Despite the awful things that happened to the hero and heroine, it never got silly or melodramatic. Very satisfying ending, and the only characters I hated were the ones you're supposed to: the boarding school bullies and the press gangs of the British navy. Truly solid five stars.

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Uma história passada no período da Regência Inglesa mas cuja personagem principal é uma filha bastarda. Diferente e divertido, embora previsível...

Although I read regency romance from time to time, I generally find the genre a bit insipid. Don't get me wrong, I *like* the way regency romances veer toward the sweet, requiring the author to actually build a realistic love story based on character traits rather than filling half the pages with sex. But run-of-the-mill regency romances tend to throw the same plot twists at characters over and over, which gets similarly wearing.

Fairchild is different. Some reviewers have compared the novel to the works of Jane Austen, but I actually find Jane Austen's books not much better than a run-of-the-mill regency romance. Instead, I'd liken Fairchild to Wuthering Heights, with its intense backstory that begins in both protagonists' childhood. And Fixsen does such a good job sucking you in that you care about even the ten-year-old version of our hero and heroine, along with the flawed secondary characters that make the protagonists' lives so difficult.

All in all, Fairchild is my favorite book of the month so far. I was very sad to see that Fixsen doesn't have any other books out yet, but I'll be waiting with baited breath for the sequel to appear next month. The first installment in the series is very highly recommended.

Good portrayal of what it might have meant to be illegitimate; decent period writing.  Ultimately it didn't grab me because (a) at 17, the heroine was too young for my preferences and (b) everyone was fundamentally nice.  I wanted just a shade more grit to this.  But there are hints of a most intriguing secondary romance in the sequels, which I'll look out.