The Secret History of the Pink Carnation

So this is actually a reread of this book, which I first read all the way back in the early 2000s, when it was recommended to me by a friend who also suggested I read The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy - of which this book is supposed to be a sequel. 

(Yes, I know Orczy wrote actual sequels for The Scarlet Pimpernel, but my friend also told me NOT to read those because they were going to extinguish whatever love I had for the first book. I haven???t been inclined to go looking, so I haven???t read them.) 

Anyway, back to this book! I remember being thoroughly entertained by this when I first read it, and I???m glad to note that it holds up pretty well to my memory of it the first time around. It???s still as fun and occasionally funny as I remember it being, and I???m still utterly delighted by the story as a whole. Amy and Richard???s romance is fun, even if it???s not EXACTLY the type of story that I usually favor, and their hijinks are very much in line with what I remember reading in The Scarlet Pimpernel. In fact, there???s plenty of that DNA in this book, which, if you???re coming right off reading Orczy???s novel, will certainly make this an even more enjoyable read.