♡ Thank you for the free audiobook, PRH Audio.
Synopsis
When the flighty older sister of former naval captain, Henry Kincaid, decides on a whim to accompany her explorer husband on an expedition to Egypt, he finds himself unwittingly left in the lurch with her three unruly children and her giant, mad dog. With no clue how to manage the little rascals, a busy career at the Admiralty that requires all of his attention, and no idea when his sister is coming back, Harry has to hire an emergency governess to ensure that everything in his ordered house continues to run shipshape. In desperation, he goes to Miss Prentice’s School for Girls prepared to pay whatever it takes to get a governess quick sharp to bring order to the chaos.
Thanks to her miserable, strict upbringing, fledgling governess Georgina Rowe does not subscribe to the ethos that children should be seen and not heard. She believes childhood should be everything that hers wasn’t, filled with laughter, adventure, and discovery. Thankfully, the three Pendleton children she has been tasked with looking after are already delightfully bohemian and instantly embrace her unconventional educational ethos. Their staid, stickler-for-the-rules uncle, however, is another matter entirely…
Thoughts
Book one in the Miss Prentice’s Protégées series was pretty good, albeit a bit dry. I was expecting something more after enjoying the author’s other Regency romance series, The Merriwell Sisters. This one just felt a bit long and tedious. I think the children were really the stars of this show. Still, I am curious to read the next book in the series, which is set to be published in June.
★★★☆☆
☊ Listening to this story via audiobook was good. Narrators Eva Feiler and Shane East did a great job.