**Book Review- The Smuggler's Girl by Jennie Felton

   

 General Fiction (Adult)

 She always knew a piece of her heart was missing...

Cecile has been raised to a life of privilege at Polruan House, by her widowed father and aunt. Now she's of age, they are determined that she make a proper match, but Cecile's heart belongs to their coachman, Sam - most definitely not suitable marriage material.

When Sam turns to his friend, smuggler Zach Carver, for help eloping with Cecile, Zach tells of a recent encounter with Lise, a beautiful but poor girl in St Ives, who is the mirror image of Cecile.

And so a daring plan is born to briefly swap the girls. But bringing Cecile and Lise together will uncover an astonishing family secret of a bold escape from a loveless marriage, a treacherous shipwreck and a sister thought lost to the sea long ago...

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4 STARS

This book was a good one filled with a lot of surprises.  Although it did feel like it started out kind of slow.  But the time that it took getting started did set a really good foundation of how things were.  But there were a whole LOT of surprises and twists as the book got about 3/4 of the ways through.

Cordelia (the aunt) was one controlling piece of work.  I really hate bullies and she was a top winner for that award. Of course Cordelia wasn't the only one who was super controlling.  Cecile's father was also controlling but out of love and fear of his losing her.  It was NOT healthy but at least he loved her, which her aunt definitely did not.

Lise might not be rich and pampered like Cecile but she did have her freedom.  Anne was someone who raised her with love and affection.  

Zach and Sam were such good additional main characters, who were well able to keep me interested in the story.

You know there is going to be danger and there was actually even more than I thought.  It was a good surprise, well at least for the reader. 

There is a hard fought for H.E.A. bringing it all to a close.

" I voluntarily read an advanced reader copy of this book through Netgalley. And this is my honest opinions about it.”