Review: No big love story but pirate minutia!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 3, 2014
It's a good book, but kind of tedious like non fiction.  The heroine is head over heels in love with a guy who's emotionally stunted I guess, and the love story is slight.  A lot of deus ex machina events, like the book she finds in her backpack - but they do provide a solid background to tell the pirate's story.  Which is vague about politics actually but pretty detailed about violence and domination and war games.I'm sorry and I'm sure this writer's gone on to do great things, but this heroine was just this side short of too stupid to live.  Did not realize she was being manipulated throughout the whole book.SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER**************************************************************************************And, a big issue for me was the vague premise of a sequel.  But worse, the silly idea of her being comforted by the message in the talisman when you know - it was 400 years ago and he's certainly dead now - how does that help or change anything.  Horrible ending to the book, imo, when the whole message was you can't change destiny - but on the last page, you do.