Janice - reviewed on 1/15/2015 + 627 more book reviews

Nobody gave me a copy of The Dancing Master - I had to buy mine :) In general, I like Julie Klassen's books; they seem to me to be true to the era in that (some) people in that time actually listened to what they heard in church (which most people attended fairly regularly, especially in the country, if only because it was a once a week break from routine and hard work) and tried to live up to it by being kind and honest with each other. The lead couple in this book are that sort of people and it's a pleasure to spend time with them. Klassen is not a fast paced author so there's plenty of time to get to know characters and their milieu. Although marketed as inspirationals, her books seem to me to be more akin to standard traditional regencies of the last century than to inspirationals as they are marketed today. Her characters think about religion a bit and look to their religious training for guidance, but they're not at all over the top about it. I would recommend her books to people who like a good old fashioned trad regency romance.

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