Review: Should Hannah Fall for the Captain?
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 10, 2014
Vampires attack and sink a merchant ship, killing everyone on board except the merchant and his daughter, Hannah Knight. Hannah was being taken to St. Kitts to be married to a plantation owner. Another ship, a pirate ship called the Soaring Phoenix arrives to drive off the vampires and rescue Hannah and her father. The captain of the ship, Kane O’Brien, believes she is a cabin boy, however, once her secret is discovered, Kane is drawn to her but she tries to keep her distance. Kane decides to hand her over to the demon that cursed him, turning him and his crew into vampires. He wants to relieve them from the curse. But unlike Quinton Palmer, the vampire who sunk the ship Hannah was on, Kane has morals and hates the vampire within him, hates what he becomes on the full moon. Then he discovers Hannah’s other secret, she has powers that saves his ship and he vows to protect her with his life. The romance will have to overcome two men who are determined to take Hannah from him and Kane will have to fight to save his crew, his ship, and the woman he loves.A Pirate’s Curse was a surprise. The combination of pirates and vampires was interesting. M.L. Guida’s vampires are also different, they can be in the light, they can turn into bats, and there are two distinct groups of vampires. Captain Quinton Palmer’s vampires are vicious, without mercy, and are vampires all the time. Captain Kane O’Brien’s crew are vampires only on the full moon due to a lack of contact with the demon who cursed both crews.The play between Hannah and Kane was a lot of fun. She kept trying not to fall for the tall, dark captain who had saved her. She worried about his reactions to her unpredictable powers. He worries about her reactions to his vampirism and tries not to fall for her beauty and her innocence. Once they figure it out, they keep having things put into their way. Her fiancé, Jacques D’Aubigna, while rich, is not what he seems, her father has ulterior motives, and the coming fights kept me turning pages, eager to see what happened next. I devoured the book, reading almost all of it straight through and until very early in the morning. I like books like this, books that don’t let me put them down until I reach the end. And the author has said there will be more stories for me to savor.