Dominika's Reading Challenge

I'm quite surprised this book appears on so many classic romance lists, because I'm not even sure if it was a romance.  It's a story of beautiful Marguerite, called the most intelligent woman in Europe, who married a very stupid, but extremely rich man, Sir Percy Blakeney. Their marriage is not a happy one, they are disappointed in one another and they hardly even speak.  Marguerite is blackmailed into helping a French agent to discover the identity of a mysterious English hero, the Scarlet Pimpernel. Then, feeling guilty about what she'd done, she goes to France to save the great man. I had two main problems with this book: first, most of the plot didn't make any sense whatsoever. Why did the Pimpernel's people keep writing notes to one another, why didn't they simply talk? They were oficially friends, why didn't they visit each other? All this plot at the ball was stupid. Next - Marguerite went to France to help her hero and she did absolutely...

I can't believe it's already week 6 of my reading challenge! And that I'm still excited about it :)  This time I got "a classic romance" and I went to Goodreads lists to check which of the classic romances I haven't read so far. And the first book I came across was: The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy I've watched the movie, so I know the story, but for whatever reason I've never read the book. It's high time to do this! I hope I'm going to enjoy this book.