The Dancing Master by Julie Klassen

Julie Klassen is my favorite Regency author.  Her books have gotten better and better over the years.  I enjoyed her first ones, but I couldn't put this one down! I felt like she had me gripped from the prologue.

I felt as though I were dancing through the pages of this book.  I learned so much about dance masters in this book.  I honestly didn't know that was how they learned dance.  I enjoy ballroom dancing, so it was fun to watch Devonshire learn to once again enjoy dance.

This book had mysterious secrets that waited to be revealed at just the right time.  Klassen did a great job at not revealing them too early or too late.  The romance in the book blossomed with beautiful relationships between just the right people.  I felt such a close relationship to all of the characters in the book and had such a strong desire to see hem all happy!

Julia's spunk made me laugh.  There were a few times where I felt she was being a little disrespectful to her mother. However, I felt that she had to be a bit more demanding to get her mother to even answer some of her questions. After all, the truth is always best, Lady Amelia has been known to say.

I admired Alec and his protectiveness over his family.  Even his friendship with Desmond when no one else wanted to be in the same room with him, made me proud of him.

I absolutely can not wait to see the next story Julie Klassen will write.  It will be delightful, and as hard as it is to believe, I'm sure it will be even better than this book.  I'm not certain how, though!

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I received this book free from Bethany House Publishes in exchange for my honest opinion of this book.

The Tutor's Daughter by Julie Klassen

This cover is probably one of the most beautiful covers I have seen.  I knew right away, without even opening the book, that it would involve a beautiful estate overlooking water.  It set in my mind the picture I was to think of when the estate was mentioned.  I immediately could see this beautiful, breathtaking place that was almost indescribable in words.

I liked how the twists came even in the first chapter.  When Emma's father would go missing for long periods of times, she thought it was to visit her mother's plot in the cemetery.  I'll admit that I thought that, too.  However, that was really the reason why he was away from the house so much.  Once I understood the reason, I saw that they both needed to go away.

I'll also admit that I thought from the beginning that Phillip seemed like a good person for her to end up with.  I mean, they were friends before he graduated and left their school, so why not pick up and continue that relationship.  I appreciated the twists on this relationship, too.

I have read almost all of Julie Klassen's books and she writes with such beauty.  She creates vivid word pictures so that you can easily envision yourself at that place at that specific time.  She does a lot of research in her books and you can tell.  She is not only telling a story, but telling a story of a real time in history.  I think, for that reason, that is why most of her books tend to be a bit longer.  I've come to appreciate that about her.
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