I loved many things about Faro's Daughter, but I actually was very frustrated at one aspect of the ending when I read the book!
Words like "weak" and "submitted" and "cowed" are used in descriptions of how Deb's behaving at the end, in a way that's clearly supposed to be positive and complimentary. And she's "deeply pleased" to be addressed as "my beautiful idiot" by her love interest. It felt very much to me like Heyer was trying to take the wind out of Deb's sails and reduce her back down to what a woman ought to be, and it really bugged me.
This all is from when I read Faro's Daughter uhhhhh 9 years ago so it's possible I'd feel differently reading the ending now. But at the time it was a big enough deal to retroactively make me like the rest of the book less.
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Words like "weak" and "submitted" and "cowed" are used in descriptions of how Deb's behaving at the end, in a way that's clearly supposed to be positive and complimentary. And she's "deeply pleased" to be addressed as "my beautiful idiot" by her love interest. It felt very much to me like Heyer was trying to take the wind out of Deb's sails and reduce her back down to what a woman ought to be, and it really bugged me.
This all is from when I read Faro's Daughter uhhhhh 9 years ago so it's possible I'd feel differently reading the ending now. But at the time it was a big enough deal to retroactively make me like the rest of the book less.