The same could not be said after several pages of It Had to Be You.Ĭhase is a pretty decent hero. She’s a strong heroine who can be emulated and imitated, and I knew within several pages that I’d absolutely read more of Ms. Her friends are supportive and respectful they cheer her on and push her to achieve her goals and grow as a person.

Alexandra is not only confident but full of self-respect as well she takes pride in her hard work, her education, and who she is, despite a lifetime of difficult circumstances. Dare’s work the clear winner by a million miles. The two books are light years apart in terms of quality, with Ms. I’m nearly aghast that Avon publishes both this absolutely wonderful, feminist, sex-positive and healthy historical romance, alongside the dumpster fire novel It Had to Be You by Susan Elizabeth Phillips. In a one-step-forward, two-steps-back fashion, Chase and Alexandra will find their way to each other, but not without a few heart-stopping- and heart-pounding!- moments along the way. His playboy reputation, Alexandra’s schoolgirl crush, and the terrible behavior of the girls, none of it matters- Alexandra’s desperate.īut Alexandra’s sharp mind helps her to see the weak spots in both the sisters’ and Chase’s defenses, and it’s not long before everyone has come to love this unexpected addition to the household. And after losing the bag of tools she uses to set clocks in the homes of her customers, she’s forced to return to Chase Reynaud’s fancy home and accept his earlier bizarre offer to act as governess to the two ill-behaved orphan sisters left in his care.

The man she’s been fantasizing about for months after interacting with him (barely) at a bookstore has resurfaced in her life, and it…didn’t go well. Dare fits right in with that category! I was happy to kill two birds with one store and checked this out from the library the day before it closed.Īlexandra Mountbatten is not having the best of days. As luck would have it, the PopSugar 2020 Reading Challenge includes a prompt for a book by an author who has written more than 20 books, and Ms. I’ve followed Tessa Dare for ages on Twitter and have adored her on there and thus felt the need to engage with her work. One down off the TBR, finally! Confession, though: I added this to my TBR because I wanted to read Tessa Dare, and The Governess Game (Avon, 2018) was one my library had (so I wasn’t necessarily longing to read this book specifically).

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