{"id":4280,"date":"2026-04-06T21:31:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T21:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianregency.com\/blog\/?p=4280"},"modified":"2026-04-06T21:31:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T21:31:18","slug":"banquet-of-lies-a-preposterous-premise-and-yet-a-delightful-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/06\/banquet-of-lies-a-preposterous-premise-and-yet-a-delightful-read\/","title":{"rendered":"Banquet of Lies ~ A Preposterous Premise, and yet a Delightful Read"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Banquet<\/a>Banquet of Lies by Michelle Deiner is more Regency historical romance than traditional Regency, nor is it particularly old, having a copyright date of 2013, and it is not inspirational in the spiritual realm of reading. It is, however, a clean read, well-written, and romping good fun, if you like suspense with your Regency romance, which I do; thus, in my efforts to introduce you to Regency romances that are clean, entertaining, and well-written, if not inspirational, I present this story.<\/p>

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1812. In order to discover who murdered her diplomat father, Gigi Barrington heads to London disguised as a chef. She works in Lord Aldridge’s kitchen, hiding in plain sight. But as she closes in on her quarry, Aldridge’s romantic advances complicate matters.<\/p>\n

This is a preposterous premise. I honestly don\u2019t think even a young lady with this heroine\u2019s background would be a good enough cook during the Regency to take on the role of head chef in a nobleman\u2019s kitchen.<\/p>\n

For someone like me who says one can get away with a lot as long as it is historically feasible, not that it actually happened, to say I enjoyed this book is a little shocking. I don\u2019t think this is historically feasible, but then, we often suspend our disbelief in exchange for a good story.<\/p>\n

Banquet of Lies is one of those stories\u2014fast-paced; lovable characters; suspense and, of course, romance all dropped into the middle of Regency London.<\/p>\n

Now here at the end of this little post I do have to confess that I picked up this book to read partly because I also indulged in the preposterosity of having a secondary character in A Necessary Deception (Regency romance from Baker\/Revell 2012) who is a female chef from a good family there for the purpose of keeping an eye on someone.<\/p>\n

My chef wasn\u2019t planned. She simply popped onto the page and wouldn\u2019t leave.\u00a0 Because of the release dates, I think this is mere coincidence, rather a fascinating uptake from the ether.<\/p>\n

Have you read Banquet of Lies? What did you think of it?<\/p>\n

Originally posted 2014-10-30 01:00:00. <\/small><\/p>

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Banquet of Lies by Michelle Deiner is more Regency historical romance than traditional Regency, nor is it particularly old, having a copyright date of 2013, and it is not inspirational in the spiritual realm of reading. It is, however, a clean read, well-written, and romping good fun, if you like suspense with your Regency romance, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,49],"tags":[487,24,566],"class_list":["post-4280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-books","tag-book-review","tag-laurie-alice-eakes","tag-regency-romance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4280"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4348,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4280\/revisions\/4348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}