The Governess [Unbound]

Product Details

• Unbound: 240 pages
• Publisher: Masquerade Books
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 156333562X
• ISBN-13: 978-1563335624
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,505,500 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

M. S. Valentine is the internationally bestselling author of the contemporary erotic classics "The Captivity of Celia", "The Possession of Celia", "The Governess", "Elysian Days and Nights", "The Martinet", and "The Celia Collection". (These titles are now available on Amazon Kindle.) She's also known as Mitzi Szereto, popular author, anthology editor, blogger for "Errant Ramblings: Mitzi Szereto's Weblog" (http://mitziszereto.com/blog), and the creator/presenter of the web channel Mitzi TV (http://mitziszereto.com/tv), which covers the quirkier side of London.

For more details on Mitzi Szereto and her books, please visit the Mitzi Szereto author page on Amazon.

Customer Reviews

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Too much left out with too much left in, January 4, 2004

By 

Scarletaka "Stacey" (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Governess (Paperback)

This story is about Miss Hunnicut, a young woman who was engaged to a man who seduced her during a carriage ride only to use it against her so he didn't have to marry her.

In an effort to at least get some sort of life she agrees to a job as a Governess for a couple on an island in Scotland.

Maybe I didn't read the description of this book well enough, but this book seemed like it had a good premise as an erotic story. What I found upon further inspection was a book that could have been much more than it was. If you read erotic fiction strictly for the sex portion of it then this is the book for you. There is very little of a story here.

This book looks like it might have been a much longer story (at least that's what I hope) and someone hacked it to pieces only leaving the various ways this couple takes advantage of Miss Hunnicut. It doesn't even come across as a good S&M book (Try the Story of O instead of this book). I know it was fiction but this story is too far fetched. Miss Hunnicut falls in love with the Lord of the manner so her attraction and desire to please him are likely. However, the fact that in the time period this is set in to have a couple living on a secluded island with a group of friends that come around for nothing more than taking advantage of this one girl seemed to far off.

This story was nothing but one sex scene after another and they became tedious after awhile because it's the same thing only with another person.

Add in the fact that the "Master of the House" has this power over her and it doesn't make me think of Dom/Sub but just poor editing. This story had promise if they'd added more story to it.

This book seemed too hacked together for my taste.

I recommend books by Robin Schone, Thea Devine, Bertrice Small, or books in the Black lace series over this one.

12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It left me breathless!, February 5, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: The Governess (Paperback)

I confess, I've always been a sucker for the Wuthering Heights variety of novel, so when friends recommended M. S. Valentine as the Queen of Wuthering Heights erotica, I couldn't resist. I was not disappointed. The Governess is the tale of an innocent young woman duped into leaving her family to take up a post on a remote Scottish isle. Her employers, Mr. and Mrs. Crawleigh, have other ideas which have nothing to do with looking after their purported child. Miss Hunnicut (the governess) falls in love with her enigmatic male employer, making her prone to all sorts of delicious tinkering at the hands of the couple. I found the story highly engaging and highly arousing, with characters that practically jump off the pages in their vividness. Valentine weaves and interweaves the characters and their personal stories with cleverness and style, leaving you wishing that the novel would go on forever. I, for one, did not want it to end!!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Expected more!, October 14, 2004

By 

J. Brennan (Pittsburgh) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Governess (Paperback)

Maybe it is the way it was written - kind of in a distant type of way with no real dialog. I would have appreciated more real dialog - what did Mr. Crawleigh say to Miss Honeycutt to get her to comply to everything so willingly? Everything seemed to be written in a vague manner - yes the sex scenes were explicit but you were not able to realize how they got her to comply with everything. I think this book could have been so much more - I too think the Robin Schone books are much much better.