Reviews for High-Country Governess

The average rating for High-Country Governess based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-01-17 00:00:00 Wally Majors Cute, chaste, and sweet vintage romance with very little angst, a detailed New Zealand setting, and a feisty, articulate heroine bent on revenge for a slight to her pride, which plans quickly dissolve in the face of a repentant, chivalrous and absolutely besotted hero. Our heroine has been working hard behind the cosmetics counter of a high end department store, supporting her widowed mum and two younger siblings. She doesn't really like it. Her dream was to be a teacher but hey, someone's got to pay the bills and the HPlandia manual requires the heroine to sacrifice herself for her family members so... In guise of thanks for her hard work, the siblings hightail it to England for college, and Dear Mum remarries and decides to follow her new meal ticket to England also, leaving heroine pretty much on her own. Thanks a lot, guys!! Now that she is not responsible for this bunch of ingrates, she gives notice at her boring job in order to follow her dream...of becoming a governess in the wilds of New Zealand. Okay. That�s when she accidentally eavesdrops on an ego-shattering conversation between her former boss and his son, the hero of this piece. The hero owns a station at the intersection of FarFarAway Point and Inaccessible Avenue in the middle of the New Zealand wilds and is in town to find a governess willing to work at his station and take care of his workers� children. Heroine's boss suggests heroine would be perfect for the job. His arrogant son however scoffs at the idea of hiring Laetitia for Loveliness, the moniker that her boss has bestowed on heroine to help sales of his cosmetics. Our eavesdropping heroine has to remain in her hidden place and be forced to endure as the hero rattles on and on about how inappropriate she would be with her obviously high maintenance ways, her ridiculous false eyelashes, her prissy clothes, her haughty citified ways, her obviously low IQ etc. So naturally, the heroine chops off her hair, peels off her inch thick foundation to reveal her freckles in all their glory, turns in heels and suits for jeans and sneakers, and makes it her "mean motivation" to get herself hired by the hero, make him eat his words, make him fall in love and propose to her, and then she can humiliatingly spurn him and tell him a few home truths about his arrogant, ill-informed assumptions. This was a great start to the book and overall I enjoyed how the story played out. The hero was an idiot but not a jerk or really mean. He came around really fast to revise his opinion of the heroine and apologized of his own volition early on, without even knowing she had overheard his scathing commentary about her, about his admittedly biased and uncalled for attitude towards her. The greedy, obvious OW was no challenge and sent packing firmly and decisively by the hero, in contravention to HP Manual rules and regulations requiring besotted heroes to outrageously flirt with OWs and humiliate the heroine to force her into admitting her feelings. The conclusion was neatly tied with a bow but left me decidedly underwhelmed by the lack of romanticism of the actual proposal. After all the poetry, the moon gates, the flower gardens etc., hero proposes to heroine by presenting her with an offer by a third party who is interested in buying hero's land for a high price, and hero asking heroine to put in her two cents because any decision he makes he will make for THEIR future and not just his own. I think a lot of readers who are feeling battered and bruised after swimming in an ocean of slimy, sharp-teethed, violent HP sharks, will welcome a trip to the cozy island world of Essie Summers. It was a bit too sweet for me but I enjoyed it overall.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-03-27 00:00:00 Brandon Laird The heroine makes the book. Well, that's about it for this cute read.