Sixteen Scandals
My fellow Georgette Heyer fans will enjoy this irreverent YA romance, in which Primrose Ainsworth decides to launch herself into society on her sixteenth birthday, regardless of her parents’ decision to hold off her debut until her sister lands a husband. She sneaks out with her best friend to the notorious Vauxhall Gardens to celebrate and finds plenty of adventure and romance in the sparkling London wonderland.
by Sophie Jordan
My fellow Georgette Heyer fans will enjoy this irreverent YA romance, in which Primrose Ainsworth decides to launch herself into society on her sixteenth birthday, regardless of her parents’ decision to hold off her debut until her sister lands a husband. She sneaks out with her best friend to the notorious Vauxhall Gardens to celebrate and finds plenty of adventure and romance in the sparkling London wonderland.
This is exactly what it sounds like — a fun, fluffy Regency romance with a happy ending and all the loose ends tied up. Which, OK, may not make for literary greatness but which definitely makes the perfect poolside reading. Of course it’s ridiculous that a well-brought-up young lady could break all the social rules so thoroughly and not end up a social pariah, but that’s part of the fun of historical romances — that we can bend some of the ridiculous social rules and ask “what if?” If this is your jam — and it is my jam — it is a fun, fast read that will probably make you laugh if you don’t try to take it too seriously.
(The title, in case you didn’t notice, is a riff on the teen movie classic Sixteen Candles. So there’s that, too!)