The Governess Game

"This was a disappointment to say the least. After seeing these two meet in The Duchess Deal, I definitely expected myself to like this book more. Their meet cute had me sold but unfortunately it wasn’t enough to save this book from what it was. This story follows this girl named Alexandra who sold a book to this Duke named Chase and since then hasn’t gotten him out of her head. When she runs into him again, he asks her if she will become the governess to his kids. I am a sucker for the single parent trope. What I’m not a sucker for is a parent who doesn’t show love to his kids. It honestly made it so hard to sympathize with his character. Like I don’t care about your issues dude. That’s not an excuse not to show them love. What I’m learning about Tessa Dares book is her romances come off more lust based which as an emotional romance reader makes it harder for me to care about them. “I’m sexually attracted to you” just doesn’t make for an entertaining romance. Along with that, another thing I’m noticing is our protagonist are just these flawless sunshiny humans who have no internal conflict and instead it just relies on the male character having to grow. When a book is dual pov I expect both characters to have some internal conflict. Instead Alexandra was just there to help with Chase’s internal conflict without having any of her own. I gave this a 2.5 because at the end there were some scenes where the emotional element of the romance was kind of sweet and I liked those parts. Also I enjoyed the kids. Overall, this kind of just read like The Duchess Deal. If you loved that book you’ll probably love this one two. Both have these forced living situations, heroes who hate themselves, and a protagonist who shows them they’re worthy of love but I just didn’t pick this book up to read that one all over again. I’d like to give Tessa Dare one last chance but I have a feeling her books just aren’t for me."