Review: SEXY NAVY CAPTAIN IS CAPTURED BY KICK ASS FEMALE PIRATE!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 21, 2014
Do you love swashbuckling pirates who fight for great booties? Then this fabulous and humorous story with many twists by Sharon Cullen is the one for you. Her greatest twist is a FEMALE PIRATE that kicks other pirates' butts and take no names.Let's start with the hero, Nicholas Addison, the brother of the Earl of Claybrook. He is a captain in the Royal Navy with a healing leg injury and no ship. One night at a ball, he is offered a ship and also a mission to sail to Boston. Marquess Kenmar wants him to find out who is attacking Daniel Blackwell's ships. Rumors of "The Notorious Lady Anne" attacking Blackwell's ships have been floating around London. Kenmar doesn't believe a female pirate is doing it, but thinks Blackwell is. He wants Nicholas to watch Blackwell and see if attacks his next shipment of gold. Nicholas is just leaving when a beautiful dark hair gypsy introduces herself and ask him to dance with her. That beauty is actually "The Notorious Lady Anne!"Now that's get to the butt kicking heroine. Emmaline Sutherland is a widow from Barbados and only wants one thing in the world, to bankrupt and destroy Daniel Blackwell. She is staying with her Aunt Dorothy to spying on Kenmar's plans for Blackwell's gold. Since her aunt's ball is so boring, she is happy to use the time to get information out of the Captain. What she gets is the captain's low opinion on women. He tells her how Lady Anne doesn't exist because a woman CAN'T work that HARD and that life is to DANGEROUS for a woman. All Emmaline wants to do is reach for her knife strapped to her thigh and stab him to death. WAR WAS DECLARED!The first shot was hers! Nicholas is shocked when she walks unto his ship, WITHOUT a chaperone, and she says, "Sorry, am I'm late?" His first shot back was "showing" her his ship using insults like "the poles in the middle are called masts!" During their voyage, they are attacked by pirates (not hers)and captured. He then learns she is "The Notorious Lady Anne" and taken prisoner on her ship. This story is about two opposites who clash over everything. Their war of wills ignites sparks and fire that turns into passion that overwhelms their world. Will his black and white justice doom them both? Will she be able to show him sometimes justice has colors?I personally don't enjoy stories with pirates and long sea voyages that take place in 1700s. Ms. Cullen has show me the errors of my ways. She writes like she has been a pirate and enjoyed it. Her characters jumped off the page and landed in my heart. I love Shamus, the gentle giant, Cook aka her lady's maid and Clarence, her ex-pirate butler with a serious attitude! Ms. Cullen writes about the truly deep friendship between Emmaline and Phin, her best friend and second-in-command. Of course she throws in steamy, up against the wall scenes, blood and guts pirates fights, not one but two evil villains but most of all she writes a moving love story. Ms. Cullen made me blush, laugh, smile, cry and even pull out my dusty pistol and cutlass and kick ass with her pirates. She deserves my top score of 5 fingers up and 10 toes and I will throw in my thanks for the hours of being transported to her world of girl power!Reviewed from a NetGalley ARC.