Review: The Noble Smuggler

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Despite living at her father’s inn her entire life, Elizabeth Doyle has always managed to avoid involvement with the smugglers who frequently gather there. Until now. When a handsome smuggler is brought to her with dire injuries, Elizabeth risks everything to hide him—completely unaware that the wounded man is not who he appears to be. 

When an opportunity arises to infiltrate the notorious smuggling gang he believes caused his father’s death, Jonas Ainsworth, the Viscount Langton, pretends to be one of them. But when he is wounded midcharade, Jonas’s life is placed in the hands of an unlikely savior: a smuggler’s daughter. Forced to flee before his wounds have fully healed, he does not think he will ever see her again—until she appears on his doorstep, seeking safe haven. Divided by their social standings yet united in their mutual desire to expose the leader of the smuggling ring, Jonas and Elizabeth are undeniably drawn to each other. Neither realizes, however, that they are dangerously close to uncovering explosive secrets from the past—secrets that will alter the course of their lives forever.

Genre: historical romance

Publication date: April 2020

Mature content: no

Review: I loved reading The Noble Smuggler, and I found the historical perspective of the book particularly interesting.  

 

I did feel the romance between Elizabeth and Jonas was missing a bit more connection. They are together for so little time throughout the book - and during their first interactions he's actually posing as someone else - that it was hard for me to understand how they could fall in love so fiercely in such a short period of time.

Ranting above aside, the Nobble Smuggler is still a wonderful book and I certainly intend to read the following instalments in this Georgian Gentlemen series. 

Happy readings!

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