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martamarne_'s review
4.0
Maravillosa y pérfida protagonista que jugará con todos para obtener sus propósitos, incluso con el lector. Una villana maravillosa que debería subir al Podium de las malas más malas de la literatura.
destiel74's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
It was a pretty good book about a woman using the expectations placed on her to gain power.
riverdeboz's review against another edition
4.0
There’s almost nothing I enjoy more than a Victorian gothic romance/thriller, and here are four terrific stories by one of America’s most beloved authors. It was very Bronte-esque!
headre89's review against another edition
2.0
This book was so hard for me to get into it really got good like the last 20 pages but it felt like there wasnt a real introduction to characters which made it hard for me get into
hgracegarrett's review against another edition
5.0
The wealthy Coventry family hires a captivating young governess named Jean Muir. Talented, witty, passionate and wise, one by one they fall under her spell. However, readers soon discover that Jean is not all that she seems. Will the Coventrys discover the truth before it is too late?
"Behind a Mask" is supposed to be a thriller, but to me it felt like a Bronte novel (which is to say, possibly thrilling to the average ninteenth century Catherine Morland type). I actually liked it quite a lot more than "Little Women", the book for which Louisa May Alcott is best known. It was exciting, and almost as enticing as it's heroine. And what a character! I don't know whether to think about her with repulsion or awe...or both. It's a short book, and I'd especially suggest it to Alcott, Bronte, or even Austen fans looking for a darker version of the classic poor-but-brilliant governess tale.
P.S. There's an excellent recording of this at librivox.org!
"Behind a Mask" is supposed to be a thriller, but to me it felt like a Bronte novel (which is to say, possibly thrilling to the average ninteenth century Catherine Morland type). I actually liked it quite a lot more than "Little Women", the book for which Louisa May Alcott is best known. It was exciting, and almost as enticing as it's heroine. And what a character! I don't know whether to think about her with repulsion or awe...or both. It's a short book, and I'd especially suggest it to Alcott, Bronte, or even Austen fans looking for a darker version of the classic poor-but-brilliant governess tale.
P.S. There's an excellent recording of this at librivox.org!
qofdnz's review against another edition
5.0
This was actually a lot of fun and nothing like Little Women.
hadas's review against another edition
3.0
Interesting, something I feel Jo March might have written. Above the romantic plot, it discusses women's different stereotypes or roles at the time the book was written. It introduces us to a anti-hero of an interesting type, one we can despise but also relates, who takes her fate to her own hands, without regarding too much for those she might hurt.
library_hungry's review against another edition
5.0
I'm actually rereading this, but I realized it's not on my shelf. I LOVE this book. Short, simple, intense, straightforward and yet layered. I'm always suspicious of things written long ago, but this feels modern to me in its sensibilities.
alekarenina's review
4.0
Ha sido una revelación leer a esta autora mas allá de "Mujercitas".
El estilo narrativo de esta obra me ha sorprendido con creces y lo he disfrutado muchísimo.
No sabes que va a pasar hasta el final de la trama, la cuál es de por si, sorprendente para la época en la que está escrita.
Me ha encantado la presentación de la protagonista.
El estilo narrativo de esta obra me ha sorprendido con creces y lo he disfrutado muchísimo.
No sabes que va a pasar hasta el final de la trama, la cuál es de por si, sorprendente para la época en la que está escrita.
Me ha encantado la presentación de la protagonista.
softcover_sarah's review against another edition
4.0
This story, written under pseudonym by Alcott, is an effective example of what preoccupied her mind as a writer post-Little Women's success. Women in disguise are a motif of Alcott's later work, and here, is her attempt to fool not only her male characters with a talented, enterprising woman in disguise, but also her readers. Jean Muir is excellent, always what everyone needs, but never what anyone expects her to be, and I believe Alcott borrows from her sense of her own femininity to craft Jean Muir as a character, someone misunderstood by all parties involved.