Helpful Score: 4
Lessons in French was light, funny and sexy. While the main characters both experienced difficult lives, there are no tortured heroes here (as is often the case in Laura Kinsale's novels). Callie, the heroine, is a shy wallflower who thinks of herself as plain. Whether she is actually plain or no, her personality makes her sparkle, even on the page. It was easy to picture her in my mind and I really liked her sense of humor and down-to-earth attitude. Trev, the hero, is handsome, confident, funny and wealthy. Really he would be the prototypical romantic hero, except he has a hidden criminal past that is much less grand that the lies he has told his mother and everyone else. His impulsive, reckless actions and mischievous nature made him seem more real to me. I could understand the attraction between Callie and Trev--it was more than just infatuation or physical sexual attraction. The banter between them was amusing yet still authentic for the time period. The humor and snappy dialog between them reminded me of old black & white romantic movies like "It Happened One Night."...sigh...I loved it!
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