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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great book! So funny!, January 24, 2001
This review is from: Lady Pirate (Mass Market Paperback)
I read the preview on Lady Pirate and it was just so funny that I had to order it from the bookstore at the first chance. The Heroine was great. I hate weak females, but she isn't weak. She gotta be brave to be a pirate. The Hero was great too. He was very understanding, intelligent, and he acts so cute. Like the heroine said, "He is so darn cute." The story has lots of humor like when her "face" fell off. Not really her face, it was makeup. Anyway, it bounced off her chest and landed into the mean hostess of the soiree's wineglass. The storyline is that in order to inherit her family lands, she has to marry a nobleman and be with child by her 25th birthday which is in 9 months. A funny part is that her crew is always voting on what she should do for her own good. They voted that she so marry and enter society in order to do so. She met Lord Thurborne but doesn't want to marry him because he would be too independent for her to walk all over. Her men voted that she should marry him because they're perfect together. They drugged the two of them and sailed out to sea with them two aboard. Lots more happen but I shouldn't reveal it and ruin your fun. This book was so good, I finished it in two days. I hope you'll like it too.
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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Lady Pirate is a "MUST READ!!", July 19, 2001
This review is from: Lady Pirate (Mass Market Paperback)
Lynsay Sands is a brilliant author that does it again!! This book is a well written historical romance, has strong characters, a great story line and I found it very entertaining. Lady Pirate has all the components of a great book... humor, intrigue, romance, and a dash of sex. What more could you want??? The "leading lady", Valoree and her motley pirate crew are hilarious trying to be land-rats in an attempt to find her a husband. I am an avid historical romance reader, and have throughly enjoyed all of Lynsay Sands' books, and this one did not let me down. It is a book that was hard to put down, and easy to read again! I highly recommend this book to all fellow historical romance readers!!
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointed, July 17, 2008
This review is from: Lady Pirate (Mass Market Paperback)
I decided to read this book after I saw it recommended on both the discussion forum and in some listmanias as a funny romance. Unfortunaltely I was disappointed and the humor fell flat with me. I understand what was supposed to be funny: pirates dressed in pink livery, allergic reactions to makeup, pirates trying to get an entrance into ton society and sorries... um soirees, and a lady who acted anything but like a lady. Although the set up was there for some really funny scenarios, somehow the execution fell flat with me.
The author also failed to provide very much physical description for the hero or heroine. The heroine is described as having red hair, the hero dark hair. No eye color to my recollection. Character description was very limited in details. I always like when the H/H consider what physically attracts them to the other. There wasn't much of that here. I also did not ever feel like I got "to know" the characters, or their motivations, therefore I never did get to the point of really liking the characters that much.
There were several subplots that were rapped up very quickly at the end of the book, and there was no feeling of a main plot.
The heroine's brother was killed, and she had replaced him as Captain in order to seek vengance, and restore the stolen wealth they needed in order to refurbish their run down estate. Everyone thinks they are a ghost crew of her dead brother. After collecting enough wealth they return to find that she must marry nobility and produce an heir to inherit the land where they wish to retire from the sea. The hero has the same solicitor and codicile to his will. He was also the kings assessor, and the only man to know her brothers identity, but he doesn't really seem to put everything together that the sister and her strange servants are the ghost pirate crew. He even knows she is the sister of the missing pirate, but he wants to watch her so maybe he can learn who is pretending to be the missing pirate. He is supposed to be investigating the identity of the pirate because the king has not gotten his portion of the booty since the brother died. The hero just seemed very weak natured and unintelligent to me. The heroine was made to look strong and capable at his expense.
This book seemed to want to go down one story line only to stop and pick up on another story line and go a different direction. I think it would have been much better had it picked one story line and stuck with it and followed it more thouroghly until the end. There was also a very abrupt ending, as though it just stopped in the middle of a chapter. The ending did not truly feel like everything had been resolved. What about her "aunt" Meg. I just knew she would end up with one of the pirates, but which one? There were other unresolved issues as well.
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