Title: A Pirate’s Bride
Author: Cathy Skendrovich
Publisher: Literary Wanderlust LLC
Blurb from Goodreads:
All Sophie Bellard wants is her freedom, freedom to sail the seven
seas, and freedom to be her own person without interference from some
controlling husband. But an arranged marriage to handsome and dangerous Captain
Andre Dubois derails all her hopes. After a disastrous wedding night where a
ruinous secret is discovered, the two go their separate ways with hopes of
never meeting again.
Sophie becomes a pirate, while Andre sets off for the Orient where he
makes a murderous enemy. After escaping with his life, Andre returns to home
waters, and in an unexpected twist of pirate fate, reunites with his estranged
and unwilling wife. When Andre’s murderous enemy threatens Sophie’s life, he
vows to protect what is his, and attempts to win his wife’s forgiveness and
love, once and for all.
Review:
The Pirate’s Bride is your typical rough-and-tumble pirate novel except
it does something that I think a lot of pirate novels tend to forget about, it
includes the pirate lingo! I mean, is it
really a pirate novel if the characters sound like they could come from any Midwestern
state in the U.S.? Right from the start author Cathy Skendovich
lets you know that you should prepare yourself that this is going to be a pirate novel.
The characters are dynamic to say the least. I had a love/hate relationship with Captain
Andre Dubois. You know he must be tough
because, well, he’s a pirate, but you’re begging him to reveal some of that
soft interior to Ms. Sophie Bellard lest she give up on him. And you want Sophie to soften (because otherwise
what’s the point of reading a romance novel). Meanwhile, you’re simultaneously
hoping Sophie never opens her heart back up to that S.O.B. who treated her with
such disregard. This book really has
your emotions warring with one another.
What I think is most important though is that despite the fact that at
times I literally hated Andre Dubois and wished nothing more than for him to
fall off a bridge I still managed to root for him, which should say something
about Ms. Skendrovich’s writing and character building abilities. Their passion was real and believable.
The difficult part of this book was that both characters are
pirates. Not happy-go-lucky Peter Pan
pirates, but honest to goodness pirates who rob and pillage and kill. It’s sort of hard to wrap your mind around
that when you’re reading because you want to love the characters and believe
that, despite their faults, they’re good people. Sophie and Andre aren’t good people. They’re good
characters though, and that’s really all that matters; especially if you
remember that even pirates to fall in love.
All in all, this book makes a pleasant vacation read (and that’s where
I read it). Buy the book for $1.99 here.
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