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Baby, You Make My Toes Curl…

For a regency romance, that chick is looking pretty naked. I mean, we can see her armpit and the side of her boobs… and that skirt looks pretty short, too. SCANDALOUS! Hah, maybe she’s a Cyprian or a courtesan or a member of the demi-monde or something. That might be interesting. If so, I smell a “fake ho” story! Just check out the guy she’s waltzing with. My God, those curls… did they have Soul Glo in the Regency era? Nuts and berries can’t do that, for sure. I wonder if the hair around his nuts and berries is that curly. Ewww. This chick looks pretty curly, too. I feel sorry for their kids. They’d come out looking like Buckwheat after a bad home perm. Not that there’s anything wrong with curly hair. Sometimes I wish I had curly hair. Wait… no, I don’t. Dude, is that Jason Schwartzman standing behind Blondie Bear dressed as Napoleon? Awesome!

Obviously this story involves some kind of masquerade. Maybe some kind of mistaken identity. And the girl is some kind of bluestocking who dresses up as her wilder, more outgoing sister, and gets the Duke to fall in love with her and by the time he finds out her deception, they’re already married. Something like that. Or she’s somebody’s lady’s maid who pretends to be… well, not a maid… and gets her bitchy mistress’s nobleman boyfriend to fall in love with her. Or he won her in a card game with her brother.

Thanks to Katharina for this awesome cover.

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5 Responses to “Baby, You Make My Toes Curl…”

  1. web
    Posted: May 31st, 2006 at 3:46 pm
    1

    Don’t you DARE call that hideous dude after my man Spike!

    Hey, did you ever give us the answers to the guess the plot game? Or do we actually need them? ;-)

  2. Bam
    Posted: May 31st, 2006 at 4:27 pm
    2

    Web, I don’t actually know the answers to the plot game… does it even matter? I have a feeling that they do the same thing at the Harlequin editorial offices. Pick an item from column A, then column B… ;)

    Don’t you DARE call that hideous dude after my man Spike!

    You’re right. I’m sorry. At least Spike slicked back his curly hair.

  3. April Martinez
    Posted: May 31st, 2006 at 6:59 pm
    3

    lol, I went for years without ever having Soul Glo in the more accessible part of my mind, and now twice in the span of the same number of days I’ve been reminded of it. I hope this isn’t a sign of things to come — those jheri curl perms have never looked good on me!

  4. Shuzluva
    Posted: Jun 1st, 2006 at 6:49 am
    4

    You know, if you look at the cover quickly (of course, that’s what I did…) it looks like the mask she’s holding is actually a winder that’s stuck in the back of his neck. This made sense to me because he’s so glossy Ken-doll like. This would have been a good cover for Body Electric, which I haven’t read yet, but it seems that wind-up Ken would fit the bill!

  5. SKapusniak
    Posted: Jun 3rd, 2006 at 2:02 pm
    5

    Darn, now you’ve got me pining for a good demi-monde/marries his mistress, horrifying his family story. I haven’t read one in a loooooong time. There should be more of those.

    On the hair issue, my brother has hair that curly simply through a quirk of genetics, even tho’ the rest of the family has hair as straight as a thing that is straight. No artificial methods are required for such curls if you’ve got the requisite DNA. No joke.

    However, anyone have any guesses as to why cover guy is wearing his in a bun?

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