An Infamous Army (1000 Books to Read)

It took me forever to get into this book, but I liked it about half way through. The activity is around all the Brits in Belgium before Waterloo. So, I kept waiting for that action to happen. It is a bit "sappy" on the romantic fiction end, and she has compared to Jane Austen. NO!!!! She does not reach Jane Austen's insight into people, dynamics, and masterful dialogue! 

Here is why James Mustich thinks it should be one of the 1000 Books You Read Before You Die:

James Mustich

Georgette Heyer may fairly be said to have found, nurtured, and raised to adulthood that flourishing foster child of Jane Austen, the Regency romance. Through dozens of novels, beginning with The Black Moth, composed when the author was seventeen to amuse her sickly brother, Heyer deployed wit, invention, research, and an astute sense of human nature (and the way desire shifts and shapes it) to construct confections of plot and character distinguished by both satisfying storytelling and authentic historical flavor. An Infamous Army shows how, as in the novels of Patrick O’Brian and Bernard Cornwell, a gift for narrative entertainment can be enriched by the tang as well as the trappings of history. Beginning in Brussels in the weeks leading up to Waterloo, the story is choreographed—with a willful and flirtatious widow and an adjutant of the Duke of Wellington at the center—as a swirl of affections, scandalous behaviors, and secret assignations.