Julie Klassen (1) (1964–)
Author of The Apothecary's Daughter
For other authors named Julie Klassen, see the disambiguation page.
About the Author
Julie Klassen is a bestselling, award winning author. She graduated from the University of Illinois and worked in publishing for sixteen years in advertising and as a fiction editor. Klassen's books, The Girl in the Gatehouse and The Silent Governess won the Christy Award for Historical Romance. show more The Girl in the Gatehouse also won a Midwest Book Award and The Silent Governess was a finalist in Romance Writers of America's RITA awards. Julie is also the author of Lady of Milkweed Manor, which was a finalist for the Christy award, The Apothecary's Daughter, and The Maid of Fairbourne Hall. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- 1964
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- female
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- St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
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- University of Illinois
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editor - Short biography
- Julie Klassen is a fiction editor with a background in advertising. She ahs worked in Christian publishing for more than twelve years, in both marketing and editorial capacities.
Julie is a graduate of the University of Illinois. She enjoys travel, research, books, BBC period dramas, long hikes, short naps, and coffee with friends.
She and her husband have two sons and live in a suburb of St. Paul, Minnesota [adapted from Lady of Milkweed Manor (2007)]
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This is the second book in the "On Devonshire Shores" series. I really enjoyed the first book, "The Sisters of Sea View", but the same characters in this book felt foreign and distant from the reader and each other compared to the last book.
"A Winter By The Sea" read more like a stiff-toned Regency read than a whimsical seaside historical romance.
I think if these books were a bit shorter, and had more relaxed dialogue instead of as many descriptions of scenery, I think they would read more easily.
If you're a fan of Bridgerton and Downton Abbey (I'm not, nothing personal to those of the fandoms) you might love this book.
Things I didn't like:
-a scene where two characters (a male and a female) are reading on the couch late at night and both accidentally fall asleep. This was just kinda thoughtless and made it look like they might have been..well you know.
-an embarassing scene where a character has a low cut dress and the book mentions her lifted bosom showing when she accidentally happens upon a houseguest. Why would you memtion that? This was awkward, so inappropriate and didn't add anything to the story at all.
I don't think I'll continue with this series, and I wouldn't really recommend it to anyone for two reasons: I personally found it to be rather boring, and those weird scenes.
Anyways, thank you to Bethany House Publishers for the complimentary e-book I received to review through Netgalley. I was not required to write a positive review and the thoughts above are my own.… (more)