The Education of Bet

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Denied an education because of both her gender and background, sixteen-year-old Elizabeth cuts her hair and alters suits belonging to Will, her wealthy patron's grandnephew, to take his place at school while Will pursues a military career in nineteenth-century England.

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Ho-hum submitted by yugure on August 2, 2013, 2:38pm I usually enjoy gender-bending stories but I was pretty bored by this one. So much time is spent on the preparation and lead up to Bet actually going to school, I felt like the real story didn't start until halfway through the book. None of the boys at school come off as real people, and this includes James, who we're supposed to care about because he's Bet's love interest. James felt like a fantasy boy, someone so perfect for Bet that he could only have come from the pen of the writer who created him. (Perhaps it is telling that I couldn't even remember his name while I was writing this review, and I had to look it up.) Bet has some substance to her character, as does Will and Will's granduncle, but everyone else is as flat as a pancake.

Okay submitted by zmclaugh on July 25, 2018, 2:58pm Pretty predictable. Go read the Song of the Lioness quartet instead.