Monday, October 9, 2023

Windsong Manor by Julia Wright - OPTIONAL

Windsong Manor by Julia Wright, 256 pages. Shadow Mountain Publishing, 2023. $17.

Language: G (0 swears, 0 “f”); Mature Content: PG; Violence: PG

BUYING ADVISORY: HS - OPTIONAL

AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE

Married young, Eleanora went from being her father’s daughter to her husband’s wife. Now a widow, Eleanora (26yo) has the time to be the baroness, the mother, the woman she wants to be—as long as she passes one more test from her late-husband under the scrupulous eye of his former solicitor.

Wright introduces readers to Eleanora as someone who has been ignored and pushed around and to Ridley as someone who works hard but can never do anything right in the sight of his boss. These underdogs quickly win the hearts of readers—we want to see them succeed and overcome the challenges others put in their way because we, too, have experienced the difficulties of being pushed down. I was anxious for them and their happy endings from the start, making it difficult to put down their story.

Eleanora and Ridley are depicted as white on the cover. The mature content rating is for mentions of alcohol; the violence rating is for mentions of guns and murder.

Reviewer: Carolina Herdegen

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