Just read it again (26 November 2016) and realizing why I loved it the first time! Such a fun read~ 
 I'm a little embarrassed to admit this, but I loved the book. I gave it 4 out of 5 stars because I felt dirty giving a romantic adventure book 5 stars. The Baronness knew what she was doing writing to women. I fell in love with Percy and Marguerite. The book is hard to get into because it jumps in the middle of the Pimpernel's latest rescue then it quickly jumps between multiple characters and locales. In addition to the jerkiness at the beginning, the dialogue is very hard to interpret due to the vernacular and the author's choice to write the broken and uneducated dialect of some of the characters. HANG IN THERE and keep reading. By the time you are about 35 pages it, it gets infinitely better. I fell in love with the characters and the story. I really loved how the author left a lot up to the imagination, so you could enjoy the story, but also imagine how fun and daring much of the story is. An added plus? Seeng how much of the dialogue and colloquial terms from the book ended up being used in the musical!