Great American Crime Stories: Lyons Press Classics
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A chilling, thrilling collection of true American crimes, long-forgotten and legendary The Bloody...
A Sea Voyage: An Anti-Stress Dot-to-Dot Adventure
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Discover the treasures of the deep hidden within these pages ...Sail away from the stresses of...
Historic Haunts Florida
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Historic Haunts Florida In this collection you will discover: -Haunted tales of paranormal...
Haunted Tour Florida
Goddess in the Stacks (553 KP) rated Cinnamon and Gunpowder: A Novel in Books
Sep 19, 2018
The formatting is set up as a kind of personal ship's log, each part dated and written down after the events happen. Wedgwood (or "Spoons," as the crew calls him) even mentions how he hides it and leaves out a decoy log, since he also writes down his dreams (and plans!) of escaping the pirates.
Some of the events in the book are incredibly predictable, but there are still a few surprises. I was a little disappointed when one thing in particular happened; I saw it coming but hoped that wasn't where the author was going with it. I know that's vague, but I don't want to spoil anything!
I enjoyed learning about Mad Hannah's background and why she's a pirate; she's fighting against the opium trade, and she actually gives Wedgwood a pretty accurate summary of the terrible things the opium trade was responsible for.
Any book that can combine sumptuous description of exotic meals with action and cannonballs will have my attention. And Brown does not shy away from proper action scenes. These are pirates, and fights get brutal. Men lose limbs if not their lives to storms and Navy bombardments. Keeping order on a pirate ship involves lashings and brute force. The book doesn't shrink from those, but it also gets philosophical with Wedgwood's description of flavors, and almost comedic with the images of using cannonballs as pestles for grinding herbs. It's that contrast and variety that makes this book so much fun to read.
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Monkey Island Tales 1 HD
Games and Entertainment
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Monkey Island Tales 1
Games and Entertainment
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Start your adventure! NOTE: This app is compatible with an iPhone 3GS or third generation...
Words+ ~ a Scrabble like game ~ turn-based
Games and Social Networking
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Come and play the best turn-based scrabble-type word game you’ve ever seen! Play with up to 4...
Listening to the Animals - becoming the Supervet
8.5
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Growing up on the family farm in Ballyfin, Ireland, Noel's childhood was spent tending to the cattle...
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Laura Doe (1350 KP) rated Never Never in Books
Oct 23, 2022
We find out how Captain Hook learnt of Neverland in the first place… when he was a child he fell out of his pram and ended up in Neverland. He then spent the rest of his childhood years trying to get back there, when he realised he couldn’t, he decided that he was going to become and pirate and spent all of his years in school learning everything there was to know about pirates and ships so that when he graduated, he could join up and live out his dream.
This book not only gives us a backstory about Captain Hook, but we also have some pirate tales added in, with stories of Blackbeard, Calico Jack, Anne Bonny and Mary Read. This just helps to give the book a little more depth around the backstory.
We also get to revisit Circe and Lucinda again, with Lucinda being as deceitful as ever and Circe still trying to fix everything her mothers have messed up. Although I didn’t see the twist at the end coming, but that just made the book better in my opinion.
Although it’s a short book, I didn’t feel like the story was rushed in the slightest. And as with all of the other villains books, I started to feel some sympathy towards Captain Hook and understood how he became the person that he is in Peter Pan.
