arr reviewed The masqueraders by Georgette Heyer (Sourcebooks)
Review of 'The masqueraders' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Favorite Heyer yet. Completely delightful from beginning to end.
I especially enjoy how well it treats Robin's crossdressing. He's almost never shown as at all uncomfortable with having to masquerade as a woman, nor about flirting with men and even delights in how well he pulls off being an attractive and desirable woman. No one in on the secret is presented as dismissing him or treating him derisively because of this. The closest is one male character vaguely side-eyeing him once, but that came off more as taking issue with how much Robin enjoys the lie than it did the nature of the lie itself.
I found that aspect particularly impressive given that this book was written in 1928 and, nearly a century later, contemporary fiction almost never manages such a storyline without being a homophobic, transphobic mess.