Book Review: The Weaver's Daughter

Kate Dearborne is just a girl looking to take up the mantle of her family weaving business and do the work she loves but her father has other plans for her. As tensions between small traditional weavers and the ever-growing local mill industry grow Kate is just trying to keep up- and keep to the right side of her father’s anger and unflinching demand for loyalty. When Henry Stockton, grandson of the mill, returns from war and to all who believed him to be dead, it only takes things between the weavers and mill to new heights of passion. Throw in a murder and a rumor of new mill equipment arriving that will put craftsmen out of work and the town becomes a powder keg waiting to go off!  In the midst of this Kate most certainly shouldn’t be having so many accidental meetings with Henry, a man she’s supposed to hate- but what if he isn’t what and who everyone assumes he is just because he carries the Stockton name? What if he, and Kate, can find a way together through the fighting and animosity to create something beneficial for all the townspeople- weaver and mill worker?  

If you are a fan of historical lit you are going to be easily drawn into the setting of this book and the story it tells as you think back to the ever popular North and South. Having that background imagery playing in your mind it’s easy to fall for this book and the characters in it. I think all of us have been waiting for more stories in this vein in our historical lit reading! J Part of me kinda hopes to see Kate and Henry again in the future because I felt like we were only scratching the surface with all that was going on in their minds and hearts as they worked through their individual and shared troubles. The other half was just pretty happy to get to enjoy their story as is because it’s rare to find a novel these days without any major plot holes or silliness in characters!

All in all, I’d recommend it as a good read. I enjoyed this over a couple weeks as I went in and out of doctor’s appointments and it helped to chase away time as I waited. I think you’d enjoy it too!

Final Rating: 3.5   

I have been given a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review and opinion of the product.