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Review: The Governess Game (Girl Meets Duke #2) by Tessa Dare
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Series: Girl Meets Duke #2
Author: Tessa Dare
Published August 28th 2018 by Mills & Boon
Goodreads Synopsis
He’s been a bad, bad rake—and it takes a governess to teach him a lesson
The accidental governess
After her livelihood slips through her fingers, Alexandra Mountbatten takes on an impossible post: transforming a pair of wild orphans into proper young ladies. However, the girls don’t need discipline. They need a loving home. Try telling that to their guardian, Chase Reynaud: duke’s heir in the streets and devil in the sheets. The ladies of London have tried—and failed—to make him settle down. Somehow, Alexandra must reach his heart . . . without risking her own.
The infamous rake
Like any self-respecting libertine, Chase lives by one rule: no attachments. When a stubborn little governess tries to reform him, he decides to give her an education—in pleasure. That should prove he can’t be tamed. But Alexandra is more than he bargained for: clever, perceptive, passionate. She refuses to see him as a lost cause. Soon the walls around Chase’s heart are crumbling . . . and he’s in danger of falling, hard.
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Review
In The Governess Game, Alexandra Mountbatten is visiting the home of Chase Reynaud to find a new client for her clock setting business when he mistakenly think she is a governess, and hires her for his two difficult wards, Daisy and Rosamund. Initially she refuses, but when she loses everything she needs to work properly, she takes on the job, and soon the girls worm their way into her heart. The girls need care and love, and the way Chase treats them as a nuisance he can't wait to get rid of, is bound to affect them. Chase cares more about transforming his office into a boudoir, and keeping up his liaisons with the women of London than he does caring for the children of a distant relative. They have turned his life completely upside down, and worked their way through governess after governess and he is at his wits end. Alexandra is like a dream come true, and though her methods aren't particularly what you would expect, she is helping them to show their true selves, while also teaching Chase how to care for someone after so long. Will Chase and Alex come out the other side unscathed, or will their hearts be irrevocably changed.
Now, I think I might have enjoyed this one even more than The Duchess Deal. Alex was the perfect heroine here, and learning about her love of clocks, her fear of water and ships, and her past made the story so much more! Though friends with some very important ladies, Alex herself needs to work to survive, and always has wanted to find a rich patron to take her on for her stargazing, especially when she thinks she may have plotted a new star in the night's sky. Being a governess, though, had never crossed her mind, and she really isn't qualified, but meeting the fantastic Daisy and Rosamund, she realises what they actually need is a childhood, and to be made to feel special and care for, and damned if she won't do that. Her and Chase's every scene had sparks flying, and the chemistry was wholly undeniable. She sees that Chase has been hurt in the past, and is feeling guilty over the fact he is heir to a Dukedom, and helps him to recover, and show his love. The little family unit of the four of them was unbelievably cute, and I hope we see them again in the following books!
Dates Read:
February 22-23, 2020
Rating
4 Stars
Review
In The Governess Game, Alexandra Mountbatten is visiting the home of Chase Reynaud to find a new client for her clock setting business when he mistakenly think she is a governess, and hires her for his two difficult wards, Daisy and Rosamund. Initially she refuses, but when she loses everything she needs to work properly, she takes on the job, and soon the girls worm their way into her heart. The girls need care and love, and the way Chase treats them as a nuisance he can't wait to get rid of, is bound to affect them. Chase cares more about transforming his office into a boudoir, and keeping up his liaisons with the women of London than he does caring for the children of a distant relative. They have turned his life completely upside down, and worked their way through governess after governess and he is at his wits end. Alexandra is like a dream come true, and though her methods aren't particularly what you would expect, she is helping them to show their true selves, while also teaching Chase how to care for someone after so long. Will Chase and Alex come out the other side unscathed, or will their hearts be irrevocably changed.
Now, I think I might have enjoyed this one even more than The Duchess Deal. Alex was the perfect heroine here, and learning about her love of clocks, her fear of water and ships, and her past made the story so much more! Though friends with some very important ladies, Alex herself needs to work to survive, and always has wanted to find a rich patron to take her on for her stargazing, especially when she thinks she may have plotted a new star in the night's sky. Being a governess, though, had never crossed her mind, and she really isn't qualified, but meeting the fantastic Daisy and Rosamund, she realises what they actually need is a childhood, and to be made to feel special and care for, and damned if she won't do that. Her and Chase's every scene had sparks flying, and the chemistry was wholly undeniable. She sees that Chase has been hurt in the past, and is feeling guilty over the fact he is heir to a Dukedom, and helps him to recover, and show his love. The little family unit of the four of them was unbelievably cute, and I hope we see them again in the following books!
Dates Read:
February 22-23, 2020
Rating
4 Stars
