Book Review
Apr. 18th, 2024 10:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kenjariSimply Perfect
by Mary Balogh
In this historical romance, Claudia Martin, the headmistress of a girls' school, falls in love with Joseph, Marquess of Attingsborough, despite a past heartbreak that left her with a strong antipathy to members of the aristocracy. Luckily for everyone, love wins out over class differences.
I liked Claudia a lot. Fiercely intelligent and very independent, she was a woman who had worked hard to make a satisfying life for herself, and she loved her work. I liked that the working out of the plot gave her an opportunity to keep pursuing being an educator, just in a very different context. Joseph is fine as a hero, likable enough. I do wish he had been less beholden to propriety and the expectations of his class and position for so much of the novel. I wish Claudia had been less acquiescent to conventions of class divisions. Their happy ending was created more by the actions of others (in the form of an ironic deus ex machina) than they themselves fighting for it.
by Mary Balogh
In this historical romance, Claudia Martin, the headmistress of a girls' school, falls in love with Joseph, Marquess of Attingsborough, despite a past heartbreak that left her with a strong antipathy to members of the aristocracy. Luckily for everyone, love wins out over class differences.
I liked Claudia a lot. Fiercely intelligent and very independent, she was a woman who had worked hard to make a satisfying life for herself, and she loved her work. I liked that the working out of the plot gave her an opportunity to keep pursuing being an educator, just in a very different context. Joseph is fine as a hero, likable enough. I do wish he had been less beholden to propriety and the expectations of his class and position for so much of the novel. I wish Claudia had been less acquiescent to conventions of class divisions. Their happy ending was created more by the actions of others (in the form of an ironic deus ex machina) than they themselves fighting for it.
