Review: This one holds up
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 27, 2014
How does she keep doing it?  There must be a window to 19th c. England in Ms Burrowes' head.  She not only tells an engaging story every time, but she makes the era and the people come alive.  We expect a romance to have some improbable conflicts and some, shall we say, unique coincedences, yet you'll never find the hollow, superficial setting and stock characters in one of her books.  They are fully fleshed (punny) and crisp.  I feel for the characters and their woes; that is rare.  For devotees of her series, she picks up a minor character from a previous novel, a conflict for another, and explores the class barriers in that society as a newly minted "gentleman" falls for an unlikely lady, his daughter's governess.  Smacks a little of Jane Eyre in that respect.