So the start of this is gonna sound really unrelated for a second. One of the many sucky things about being a depressed bean is that it steals the joy out of things that used to bring you to life.
I always know when my sad brain is really bad because I can’t read. It’s not that I don’t want to. I will pick up a book open it and my eyes will take in the words. But my brain literally won’t process the words.
This duology that I am about to introduce to you, woke me the f*ck back up again.
It is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo great!
Pirates. Monsters. Enemies to Lovers. Angst. Sword fights. An all female crew! The one bed trope. Just gaaaah, everything I love shoved into these two books and I am LIVING!
Okay.
I’m a little calmer now.
JUST KIDDING!
The story follows Alosa Kalligan is, as the title may suggest, the daughter of the Pirate King, a man who rules the seas and his daughter with an iron fist and no mercy.
Seventeen years old, Alosa already captains her own ship and crew, almost all of whom are women and girls she has met and rescued on her travels.
When our story starts, Alosa and her crew aren’t just under attack, they have lost.
In a deal to save her crew Alosa is taken hostage aboard the enemy ship by Captain Draxen and his irritatingly good looking brother (and First Mate) Riden.
Locked on board The Night Farer, Alosa faces torture and being the object of a ransom to her father.
But it doesn’t matter.
Alosa has her own reasons for being on board the Night Farer. You don’t catch the Daughter of the Pirate King unless she wants you to.
Besides, whatever torture Draxen and his crew throw at her, it’s nothing to what she has experienced before and what she will experience again if she fails her father.
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So, when I started this book, I was fully prepared to hate it.
Alosa is everything that in my prior reading experience, I have been conditioned to dislike.
She’s loud, she’s brash, she’s confident bordering on arrogant and she’s stubborn to a fault.
But behind the cocky Pirate King’s daughter, is a young women who would do anything and everything for her crew and those she cares for.
As Riden tells her at one point in the book:
“You’re strong and courageous in many ways, but when it comes to taking care of yourself, you’re weak.”
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If anyone is in a reading slump, where all you want to do is pick up a book but you can’t bring yourself to do it, get yourself a copy of this Duology.
It’s fun, it’s action packed, with characters you will love and loathe in equal measure and twists and turns that I for one, did not see coming.
Probably in my top five books/series I’ve ever read and I pray they make it into a film or series one day.
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