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Title: Daring storyline featuring flesh-and-blood characters
Review: I was absolutely impressed by this novel. The two young women who escape Jamaica and become pirates, donning men's dress and fighting as men, are warmly-imagined: one feels almost as if they're in the same room with you as you are reading.The injustices that are treated in this book: slavery of blacks to whites, and slavery of women to the decisions of men, including and especially their fathers and brothers. You are made to understand how a pirate's life could be liberating.The tale includes some heavy-hitting scenes of murder; it's not a fantasy-land young adult book. Yet it's not written sensationalistically; in fact, the style is of high literary quality, so much so that while it can appeal to young people, it also was impressive reading for me (I am forty years old).In addition, there are great sea-action scenes and an informative depiction of the pirate way of life.I wholeheartedly recommend this book to anyone, young or old, man or woman.
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