His Unusual Governess edition by Anne Herries Romance eBooks
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Beneath the governess's blush…
Heiress Sarah Hardcastle is convinced her plan to escape the unwanted attentions of a fortune hunter is foolproof. Buried deep in the countryside, and with a whole new identity as prim governess Miss Goodrum, Sarah is looking forward to the quiet life for once.
But her careful masquerade is shaken when she meets her pupils' mentor, Lord Rupert Myers. An incorrigible flirt, Rupert has the looks and the charm to make Sarah blush all the way down to her high-buttoned neckline—and the determination to uncover what's beneath! Sarah will need her wits about her if she's to resist Rupert's roguish ways and keep her secret intact….
His Unusual Governess edition by Anne Herries Romance eBooks
I was intrigued enough by the teaser chapters to buy this book but it really wasn't a great book. It had potential but the writing style and plot flaws overwhelmed me and I struggled to finish it.Briefly: The h is a wealthy cit heiress that is being pressurised to get married to an unpleasant suitor. She decides to swap places with a governess on her way to look after the grandchildren of a marquess, in order to have a break from her life for awhile (how realistic is that for the time period?). The nephew of the same marquess is our H and he is also going to be involved with the children as their mentor. The H and h are therefore thrown together in looking after the children. In the meanwhile someone is trying to murder the h and the H waivers between being a complete pain in the ass and a true H to the h.
The writing style was very annoying and I found the inner reflections of the 2 main characters tedious. The H was not particularly likable and the h was annoying. Then suddenly the H was madly in love with the h out of nowhere. I didn't buy it.
One of the plot flaws is that the author doesn't seem to realise that the H would be the old marquess's heir and not the grandson (because he is the child of the marquess's daughter). Therefore it's highly unlikely that the h would ever have been eligible to marry the H anyway, despite all the things she'd done that would have ruined her reputation. Usually I'm not a stickler for this stuff but in this book it seemed glaringly wrong.
I wanted to like this book but there were too many issues that I couldn't overlook.
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His Unusual Governess edition by Anne Herries Romance eBooks Reviews
"His unusual governess" by Anne Herries is a reasonably amusing and entertaining tale, and yet another Regency take on one of the oldest chestnuts in the Romance canon.
E.g. a "she stoops to conquer" type story in which a lady or a wealthy woman decides to pose as a nanny or governess and insinuates herself into a household where a new nanny or governess is needed for one or more orphaned children or teenagers, and then a romance with their father or guardian follows as night follows day ...
In this book the heroine is Sarah Hardcastle, wealthy middle-class heiress to number of mines and mills following the death of her father. High society in the regency era looked down on those who were in "trade" e.g. earned a living from actually working or owning any business other than land, but there were always enough aristocrats who through fecklessness or the need to maintain a crumbling estate were very short of money, that a woman who came with a large fortune would have plenty of noble suitors for her hand. At the start of the book, Sarah is becoming exceptionally tired of such offers from aristocratic fortune-hunters and gentlemen who as she puts it, think they can manage her fortune better than she can.
Then, while returning to her home in the North of England from a visit to check on her copper mines in Cornwall, Sarah agrees to give a lift in her carriage to a governess, Hester Goodrum, who is moving to a new position at a country estate, Cavendish Park, near to Sarah's route home.
Learning that the Miss Goodrum, unlike herself, is desperate to marry but has taken the position at Cavendish Park so that she and her fiance can buy an inn together, Sarah sees an opportunity to disappear for a while from her unwanted suitors' attentions she gives Hester the money to buy the inn, and takes her place at Cavendish park.
Taking up the post of governess to the teenage grandchildren of the elderly Marquis of Merrivale, who himself lives in London, appears at first to go very smoothly - but Sarah has reckoned without the appearance of the handsome Lord Rupert Myers, who describes himself as a "tulip of fashion" and a "notorious rake." Lord Rupert is the Marquis's nephew and has been asked by him to keep an eye on his grandchidren's progress.
Sarah realises that she has jumped out of the frying pan into the fire - Lord Rupert is far more attractive to her than the unwelcome suitors she had been trying to evade, but in a sense that makes him all the more dangerous ...
This story is amusing and entertaining but quite exceptionally implausible. Several of the characters are very charmingly drawn, particularly Sarah and Rupert, and I did enjoy reading it.
To be honest this book could have done with a better editor I was initially thrown by a confusing typo in the prologue when the Marquis of Merrivale's refers to his grandchildren as his niece and nephew, and in the next chapter there are sentences on consecutive pages where the real Miss Goodrum is referred to as being in her "late twenties" and "not a young woman." Which does reflect the attitudes of the time but that could have been better explained.
If you like this book you might also enjoy "A Very Unusual Governess (Mills & Boon Historical)" by Sylvia Andrew, "My Lady Governess (Zebra Regency Romance)" by Wilma Counts, "The Defiant Governess (Lessons in Love, Book 1)" by Andrea Pickens, "Dangerous Lord, Innocent Governess (Mills & Boon Historical)" by Christine Merrill, or "Daring Deception (Legacy of Love)" by Brenda Hiatt, all of which are alternative Regency takes on very similar themes to "His Unusual Governess."
This is not Jane Austen or even Georgette Heyer, and probably not one to read if you enjoy detailed and historically accurate descriptions of the glittering London society of what T.H. White called "The Age of Scandal." But it is an amusing way to while away an hour or so as a little piece of light reading.
Anne Herries HIS UNUSUAL GOVERNESS is a good read!
You find yourself in the countryside, dealing with
the young and the old and the excitement in between.
I was intrigued enough by the teaser chapters to buy this book but it really wasn't a great book. It had potential but the writing style and plot flaws overwhelmed me and I struggled to finish it.
Briefly The h is a wealthy cit heiress that is being pressurised to get married to an unpleasant suitor. She decides to swap places with a governess on her way to look after the grandchildren of a marquess, in order to have a break from her life for awhile (how realistic is that for the time period?). The nephew of the same marquess is our H and he is also going to be involved with the children as their mentor. The H and h are therefore thrown together in looking after the children. In the meanwhile someone is trying to murder the h and the H waivers between being a complete pain in the ass and a true H to the h.
The writing style was very annoying and I found the inner reflections of the 2 main characters tedious. The H was not particularly likable and the h was annoying. Then suddenly the H was madly in love with the h out of nowhere. I didn't buy it.
One of the plot flaws is that the author doesn't seem to realise that the H would be the old marquess's heir and not the grandson (because he is the child of the marquess's daughter). Therefore it's highly unlikely that the h would ever have been eligible to marry the H anyway, despite all the things she'd done that would have ruined her reputation. Usually I'm not a stickler for this stuff but in this book it seemed glaringly wrong.
I wanted to like this book but there were too many issues that I couldn't overlook.
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