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Read my reviews of other Julie Klassen novels: The Apothecary's Daughter, The Maid of Fairbourne Hall, The Tutor's Daughter. Fans of Jane Austen or the regency period will find great pleasure in this book. I laughed I cried (really, I did!) I sighed in contentment. Suffice it to say that I enjoyed The Dancing Master far more than I anticipated. I couldn't read fast enough as I tried to unravel the carefully plotted mystery. Suddenly, I found myself immersed in questions about Julia's ancestry.

Klassen took all my assumptions about Julia and turned them upside down. Klassen's other characters were so fleshed out and intriguing that it soon didn't matter that I disliked Julia. I did struggle to immerse myself in the novel at first-basically because I didn't care much for Julia at the outset-but once I was about 75 pages in, I could barely tear myself away from the pages. But the book is about so much more than romance: it's about friendship, parenthood, family, prejudice, legalism, and forgiveness. Yes, there are aspects of romance, including the expected attraction between dancing master Alec and Julia Midwinter. The Dancing Master surprised me because I expected it to be much more of a romance than it turned out to be. My take: Julie Klassen is a master of Regency fiction, and I always eagerly anticipate her releases, each of which surprises me in some way. and to her mother's tattered heart?įilled with mystery and romance, The Dancing Master brings to life the intriguing profession of those who taught essential social graces for ladies and gentlemen hoping to make a 'good match' in Regency England.

With Alec's help, can Julia uncover old secrets and restore life to her somber village. Valcourt would leave London, or why he evades questions about his past.

Julia is quickly attracted to the handsome dancing master-a man her mother would never approve of-but she cannot imagine why Mr. Though he's initially wary of Julia Midwinter's reckless flirtation, he comes to realize her bold exterior disguises a vulnerable soul-and hidden sorrows of her own. But he is stunned to learn the village matriarch has prohibited all dancing, for reasons buried deep in her past.Īlec finds an unlikely ally in the matriarch's daughter. About the book (from Litfuse): Finding himself the man of the family, London dancing master Alec Valcourt moves his mother and sister to remote Devonshire, hoping to start over.

The Dancing Master by Julie Klassen