liked the pirate. liked the heroine. more conflict would have been nice. ( )

I received "Never Trust a Pirate" as part of a Goodreads giveaway.

In the second book of the "Scandal at the House of Russell" trilogy, Madeleine Rose Russell, in an effort to find the culprit behindd her father's downfall, hides out at a servant in the home of the notorious Captain Morgan, the man she believes is responsible and the current captain of Madeleine's father's former ship, the Maddy Rose.

It's a nice read. Madeleine is a gutsier heroine than in most romance novels and the tone is a bit grittier, which is a nice change of pace. After finishing the second book in the trilogy, I was intrigued enough to want to read the first and third books on the series. On the critical side, the book is fairly short, under 300 pages, so I feel like the romantic feelings come on awfully fast on both ends. Also, Maddy's insistence that she is not in fact Madeleine Russell but actually the servant Mary Graves, goes on a little too long to be believable. Still, I liked it. ( )