There’s a little bit of romance, but no more than there is in, for example, my own Wolf’s Head. Jamaica Inn is no bustling drinking den in a busy city, as I expected – it’s a run-down old place, with a murderous landlord whose only patrons are the occasional smugglers who eventually turn out to be much worse than our hero Mary-Ellen suspects. This is a dark book, even darker than Rebecca and, rather than a cast of dozens, only a handful of characters are ever seen. Well, it’s nothing like that (thankfully)! Those could, I suppose, be classed as “romance” novels of a sort, so I expected Jamaica Inn would be much the same – perhaps some young barmaid’s ribald adventures in the titular tavern, fending off drunken oafs and jealous older women before finding love in some unlikely place. I bought this without even reading the synopsis because it was in a sale on Audible and I had really enjoyed this author’s other books Rebecca ( my review) and My Cousin Rachel ( review).
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