
Whenever I want witty repartee and self-depreciating humor I find a James' novel. The ridiculously human foibles she manages to give to Georgian and Regency characters unwraps the person beneath the title and even her remake of Cinderella doesn't leave the realm of enchanted realism. But in the end, reading James' is like listening to Mozart--the flirting and innuendo in the dialogue is sensual, naughty and even delicately debauched--Perfect.