Ok. This was a required reading for a class, but I actually found it a little fascinating. I wasn't expecting this kind of a book from the author of Little Women. This is so drastically different from that classic novel that it surprised me.
Here's the deal. Jean Muir becomes governess for Bella Coventry. But she's there for more diabolical reasons. These reasons are dangled in front of you, but you don't really learn what they are until the end of the book.
Jean seems to be a helpless girl, one who is "cursed" with men falling in love with her. She just wants to live in peace, but all these men keep proposing marriage to her. She threatens to leave the Coventry house several times over the course of the book.
The secrets that end up being revealed at the end, when it's too late for anyone to do anything about it, are honestly shocking.
It's a book about a deceitful woman and so much betrayal.
It's quite an interesting book, but I definitely didn't love it. But, I definitely didn't hate it. It's just a little unexpected.
