A Fresh Take on Regency Fiction | Review: The Innkeeper's Daughter by Michelle Griep

The Innkeeper’s Daughter

By Michelle Griep

About The Book

Dover, England, 1808: Officer Alexander Moore goes undercover as a gambling gentleman to expose a high-stakes plot against the king—and he’s a master of disguise, for Johanna Langley believes him to be quite the rogue. . .until she can no longer fight against his unrelenting charm.
 
All Johanna wants is to keep the family inn afloat, but when the rent and the hearth payment are due at the same time, where will she find the extra funds? If she doesn’t come up with the money, there will be nowhere to go other than the workhouse—where she’ll be separated from her ailing mother and ten-year-old brother.
 
Alex desperately wants to help Johanna, especially when she confides in him, but his mission—finding and bringing to justice a traitor to the crown—must come first, or they could all end up dead.

My Thoughts

The Innkeeper’s Daughter offers a fresh take on Regency fiction. I’m used to reading about high society in the Regency era; Jane Austen’s world. But The Innkeeper’s Daughter details the life of the working class in the early 19^th century. While at times it was refreshing to get a new perspective on this era, there were times when the book seemed to move a little slow for me. Certainly, there is a lot of adventure, and plenty of twists and turns as secrets are revealed about the hero and heroine, but there were some parts of the story that just didn’t hold my attention. For the most part I liked the hero and heroine. Each had their flaws as well as their positive attributes. I liked that they were both strong characters who put other’s needs before their own.

All in all, The Innkeeper’s Daughter is a decent Regency novel. Perhaps not my favorite sort of story, but I liked it in general.

I give this book 3 out of 5 stars.

I received a complimentary copy of this book from Barbour Publishing through NetGalley. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.