Weird the lead female's name is Caroline Pembroke and it rings so familiar to me. I hate when character names from different books are similar, it takes me out of the story for some reason and now it's going to eat away at me until I can remember where I recognize the name Caroline Pembroke.
 
The author does such a wonderful job of creating her characters. I feel like I could walk into a room and correctly name who everyone was. I am however, feeling like I've been introduced to the characters enough and just want the actually story to start. I don't know how to exactly describe it, but there seems to be too many "filler" pages, although they are written really well, but I just want some action.Really great writing but after I was done reading it I didn't feel as if I had read much of a story. This book was a good break from the over abundant 1800's duke/spy/tenacious woman books that are flooding the market. I'm definitely a fan of Patricia Maxwell/Jennifer Blake's writing style, she can completely transport you into the story. She has an incredible ability to give the reader a feel for her characters without blatantly coming out and saying he's handsome/brooding/strong or she's pretty/caring/outgoing. Her characters are always memorable to me.
 
With all that said, this wasn't her strongest work. Caroline and Jean the lead characters hardly spend any time together. It is a really short story and if you want to read something different it wouldn't be a bad choice actually. In the end though, it was all filler and no killer. Oh, I forgot the title and description of this book is totally misleading! I thought there was going to be some sweet high seas action but Jean wasn't even a pirate but a privateer! Plus there was only a page or two talking about him on his ship the Black Eagle. Lame.
 
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