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Hardback: 340 pages
Rating: 4
- my daily segment for my Pirate Week challenge September 13-19, 2009 hosted by Gofita's Pages
Nancy Kington, a wealthy merchant’s daughter living in Bristol, England in the early 1700’s, is sometimes lonely but enjoys the privileges her father’s business brings. Minerva Sharpe is a penniless slave’s daughter living and working on the Kington’s Jamaican plantation. These two young women, united through a set of extraordinary circumstances including a brutal murder, an arranged marriage, and set of ruby earrings, find themselves sailing the high seas in search of love, adventure and freedom—as pirates!
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My thoughts:
In-a-word: booty
Most parts of pirate life and living are touched upon in this book. Being a YA novel it was a tame read but just as effective in the telling of historical pirate accounts - slavery, trading, treasures and of course the love of the sea.
Loved the female perspective and how the gals were able to be independent in those times.
Blogosphere bit:
Found this drawing of Minerva and Nancy in dandy pirate gear.
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