Review: Would you want to be seduced by a pirate?
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 30, 2012
With the description of what Griffin looked like after being taken from Phoebe as a boy and returning as a man 14 years, then definitely.  It was an arranged marriage between Phoebe and Griffin when she was 20 and he was 17 that did not turn out the way it was suppose to at all for both parties.  Phoebe thought he just abandoned her, was considered a disgrace by her parents and while she received money from his agent over the years she never spent it.  In actuality when he went to the pub because he was embarrassed with himself after a failure to perform on the first night, he got drunk and was taken and placed on a ship where he later became a privateer. Now the question was would this marriage continue after being away for 14 years as Griffin wanted or would it end like Phoebe wanted so she could move on with her life? What about the children involved?This is a short book so that means a quick read and adds in a bit of information that is missing from her other book, The Ugly Duchess.  The missing part is great because sometimes you do have these questions when you read other books about a character that is in it. You would like to see what happened with them or how their marriage came about. But there were a few problems that I had with it because it was so short, maybe too short.  The first that he could come back after such a long period of time and change Phoebe's attitude within a night and go onto a happy marriage is well hard to believe, so I do wish it had gone on for a few days at least.  Then there was the confusion as you get to the end because first it skips to ahead and then onto maybe years later it is hard to say what it was.  Maybe it was the title of the chapters for if she had put "a few months later" and then "Epilogue" it would have made more sense.All in all I would say it was a definite great read and I can't wait to read her other books.