This is a very relaxing book. There isn't much drama. It's not a page turner. The romance is so subtle as to barely exist. The main character is pleasant. Everything in this world is pleasant. This is a pleasant book. Take it for what it is, and you will enjoy it. Expect fireworks or intrigue or complex characters and you'll be disappointed.

One of my favorite books now. This was a great story with wonderful characters, and very well written. It was a romance, but mostly a mystery in a way. Although I never stopped loving it from the first page, I kept picking up on clues along the way, and thought she was giving things away that made the rest of the story predictable - but no! More twists and turns kept coming and I was not totally surprised in the end, but well satisfied at how it all wrapped up.
Hated for it to end. Perfectly clean, but talks quite a bit about illegitimacy, so probably for teens 15+?

I actually started reading Julie Klassen's Ivy Cottage series and dropped it (not because it was bad or anything) but in the back of my head I always wanted to read this one first. It's just how my brain works.

I have a thing for reading about governesses and especially those in a gothic-ish setting; they are being treated poorly, don't get paid enough, and don't know whether they belong upstairs or downstairs. But somehow they still make the best of it, and well if they end up marrying the heir, even better.

Olivia Keene runs away from home thinking she has committed a crime. Running into the forest she comes across a couple of unsavory men, one of whom try to strangle her which is how she loses her voice temporarily. However she overhears a secret which could change Lord Bradley's life as he knows it. So to keep watch over her he hires Olivia as a governess to his cousins. The plot moves fast; I wasn't bored for a moment. Some of the twists you see coming and some you don't.

Now the The Silent Governess wasn't the gothic romance (I don't even know why I am labeling this as one) I was looking for but I still enjoyed reading it a lot. I really really loved how each chapter began with quotes about a day in the life of a governess (and servants) or from retired governesses themselves. The romance was still good and the characters were nice, I mean even some of the main villains weren't that evil. I can't remember the last time I read a book where I had this feeling of niceness throughout about 95% of the book. And that's nice.

It might seem like I didn't really like the book but I did. Another book of hers was on sale on Kindle so I bought it and I put another book of hers on hold.

A page turner with lots of plot twists. Enjoyable easy read when you need some mindless entertainment.

Good book! But can anyone tell me who actually took the carved blocks Edward made and then added the animals?? I mean, I assume it’s Avery...but I’m vaguely bugged it was never solved in the book.

Es un 4.25
Olivia es un personaje muy bueno, al igual que Edward, aunque hubo momentos en los que me estresaba por ser tan impulsivo shjdja, pero le agarré cariño. La historia se centra más en el desarrollo de las historias familiares de ambos y menos en el romance, que es muy sutil. Esto último no fue algo que molestase, ya que al fin y al cabo era acorde con sus personalidades

I found it really difficult to finish this book, it was just so unnecessarily long. Thwy story's pace was slow. The plot was good and it could've been if it was not too long and had some good events or humorous scenes or something like that to make the story interesting.

Es muy fácil leer a Julie Klassen, he leído varios libros de ella y nunca defrauda, su escritura fluye de una manera que no te das cuenta en qué momento te has acabado el libro.

No tiene un estilo de Romántica clásica, ciertamente ninguno de sus libros podría denominarse únicamente bajo ese género, yo diria que es más bien un chik lit histórico, siempre se centra más en el sus personajes protagónicos femeninos, su estilo de vida en épocas generalmente Victorianas o Eduardianas.

Lo que me gusta de esta autora es que siempre se centra en personajes que no son precisamente ricos o de clase alta, sino más bien de personas normales, comunes y corrientes y la manera en que la sociedad vivía y se manejaba en la época, con tantas restricciones sociales, con tantas reglas de comportamiento, supongo que al no tener televisión la diversión general de la gente era el chismorreo, así que había que siempre cuidar las formas.

En este caso como en los anteriores tiene un personaje femenino fuerte, una mujer decidida a salir adelante, odie profundamente al protagonista hombre, puedo entender que las formas y formalidades de la época eran así, pero me cuesta, así que no me ha gustado mucho a pesar de la parte romántica.

Por lo demás siempre es muy grato leer a esta autora, sobre todo cuando se tiene poco tiempo para leer, como es mi caso actualmente.