The Captive Pirate

Correct the spelling, ie taut vs taught, seams vs seems, etc, and I would give it 5 stars. The two main characters, plus Hanson & Grace, could be more developed as far as their backgrounds; however, they were all intriguing in their own right.

I loved the characters and their strength and flaws. Give me more

I'm not sure what story was read by all those who rated this with 4 or 5 stars, but I cannot imagine it was the same one I read.

The story itself has GAPING holes. There are many questions left unanswered by the end of the story that cause it to, overall, make little sense & the action to have no real context. The characters' histories are barely revealed, and we therefore don't *really* know the reasons behind their actions. *SPOILER ALERT* And are we really to assume that the heroine magically regained her entire memory simply because a complete stranger told her what her name is? And we're not even given that scene, actually -- only briefly told about it -- yet it would have been an excellent opportunity for the author to provide some much-needed background information (in the form of what she suddenly remembered).

In addition, this story desperately needs to be proofread & edited. The author not only used the wrong words of homophone pairs in multiple instances -- one example: "taut" means tightened, which is the word the author obviously meant to use; "taught" is the past-tense of teach -- but she also used words that simply "sound like" the word she meant to use but has not even a remotely close definition to fit the meaning in the sentence -- one example: the author uses the word "lathed", which means to cover something in wooden planks, when she clearly meant "laved", which is often used to mean licking something with one's tongue, given the context of the sentence.

Finally -- and, as a reader of a LOT of historical fiction, this is primarily irked me enough to give it the rating of only 2 stars -- the author uses very modern language to describe scenes of phtsical intimacy taking place in whatever time period this was (that was, incidentally, never identified; possibly purposefully ambiguous?). If you're going to write an historical romance, then the ENTIRE story has to fit the time period.