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De Juffrouw Uit Devonshire (2000)

by Julie Klassen(Favorite Author)

4.08 of 5 Votes: 2

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review 1: Personally, I don't think Julia Klassen can be rated anywhere near Austen or the Bronte's sisters. Her themes and story settings may be a bit similar (like about a gazillion other regency romances...), but her writing style is much much less complex, as are her characters. Nevertheless, she is by no means a bad writer, and I find her stories to be engaging and pretty entertaining, if not very creative. The Tutor's Daughter was a pleasant read, although a bit simplistic. The story was enjoyable and the characters were likeable, though their lack of depth was a bit of a turn off at times. Overall, I'd give this 2 and a half stars (= "Nice, but I won't likely read it again.).
review 2: I was really excited to read this book, but I don't think it was because of it'... mores blurb or anything like that. I think it was simply due to the fact that I had to wait a week for the book to become available in the library. And maybe that was a bad thing because my expectation were so much higher than I think they should have been, which made my disappointment much worse when the book just turned out to be meh. The characters were flat and one in particular, Lizzie, was really inconsistent. One minute she was gossiping about whatever and then the next moment she was portrayed as an, I don't know, a devil child sent from hell to screw you over. So she alternated from ditzy to evil brat and it was just so weird. Emma was your typical goody goody two shoes character and Henry Weston was, um, kind of boring to read about. What I did kind of like was the fact that there was no inst-love. But look the whole book for one kiss to happen. The whole booooook. Because most of the time she was reminiscing about how horrible he was when he was a little boy who played tricks on her and comparing him to his brother who was sweet and kind and farted rainbows. They mystery was lame, and the culprit was surprising because he turned out to be a bratty little boy. How on earth did he conjure up the mental capacity to think up those schemes let alone actually commit the acts? less

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