Review: Delight to read!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 7, 2013
Arc courtesy of Netgalley and Loveswept for an honest review.5 Big Beautiful Stars!The Notorious Lady Anne was a delight to read! I loved the authors approach to this story, instead of your typical historical women looking for a love match Sharon Cullen gives us a strong women, who does not particularly care for gowns and balls and who is willing to introduce herself to a gentleman !The book opens with a ball in the honor of Emmaline Sutherland being given by her aunt Dorothy , Emmaline is drawn to Nicholas Addison an bold enough to introduce herself, Emmaline winds up strolling the ballroom with him discovering that Nicholas is a former Captain of the Majesty's Navy and as of this very night once again a Captain. Nicholas has taken on the job of looking into the pirating taking place against Blackwell shipping and the losses it is suffering from the mysterious Pirate Lady Anne.Nicholas finds himself spending inordinate amount of time thinking about the beautiful , enigmatic women who is so unlike what he is use to, or would seek in a women to only discover the passenger keeping his ship from sailings the very same women who he can not sto thinking of; and to top it off she's sailing on his vessel n escorted.Emmaline, is having similar issues but she must keep her mind on her objective which is to get the shipping routes and cargos for upcoming tris of the Blackwell. Shipping lines, since her alter ego Lady Anne will need them to finish destroying Daniel Blackwell.Ms. Cullen then proceeds to take you on an adventure t the reaches of Barbados and the excitement of privateering and wonderfully written romance scenes.Would recommend this book to anyone who likes historical romance, great book with a twist away from the normal romance pattern.