Now it is a guy and this guy is handsome, smart, thoughtful, and charming. He has and English accent and can speak french with the best of them. Unfortunately he doesn't exist. You see his name is Sir Percy Blakeney. If you are not familiar with that name let's try this one, he is also called The Scarlet Pimpernel. The Scarlet Pimpernel was written by Baroness Orczy and it has been the base of a musical, television shows, and movies.
Now my obsession with The Scarlet Pimpernel starts awhile back when I went to go see the musical again. After that I started to watch the movie. Now after watching the movie and listening to the musical over and over again. I decided to check out the book. And boy was I in for a surprise. I discovered it was completely different from the movie and the musical. You don't even really get to know Percy until the end of the book! So imagine my surprise when I found that Baroness Ozcry wrote more than one book about The Scarlet Pimpernel, so I started reading more and found myself falling more and more for The Scarlet Pimpernel.
I've decided it's time for this to stop. That falling in love with a literary character just can't work, so maybe reading a little bit about Gilbert Blythe will help....
