Review: Regan Walker gives us a chance to experience life on the sea and get whisked away into a tale of adventure, pirates, and romance
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 24, 2014
3.5 simmering starsWind Raven is book #3 in the Agents of the Crown series, but it was the first book I have read from this series or Regan Walker.  Wind Raven can be read as a stand-alone with no problem or confusion.Every now and then I need to escape from the new adult/erotic/contemporary drama and travel back to my first love of historical romances and Wind Raven was a wonderful trip to the high seas.  Regan Walker gives us a chance to experience life on the sea and get whisked away into a tale of adventure, pirates, and romance.Regan Walker does a great job explaining a bit of history and keeping things historically accurate while telling the story of a daring woman who refuses to bend to convention and a Captain who thinks women should be women not tomboys.  It took me a bit to get into this story but once the voyage got under way, Tara won me over and Nicholas starting mellowing out a bit.  There were a few plot points in this story that let me scratching my head a bit as to why they were needed (the whole Cofresi situation) and I wonder if this was because I came in at book 3 instead of reading the series from the beginning.  Overall, it was easy to get lost in this romance and enjoy the exotic locale of the story regardless that this wasn't the start of the series.Wind Raven is a great story about how sometimes what you think you want (or what society dictates) is not what you need and going after what you want takes courage.  Tara and Nicholas's story was a sweet and passionate romance that builds over time and tested through many trials.  I enjoyed the banter of the characters and the exotic locales that these characters explored.  The uniqueness of reading a story set at sea (pirates and all) was a fun change.Regan Walker does a great job getting the reader immersed in the history and setting of her story and it was easy to get swept away by the romance of falling in love with a sea Captain.  If you love historical romances, leave the ballrooms of London behind and follow Tara and Nick on the high sea, you won't be disappointed!