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Title: A whale of a tale!
Review: A rip roaring adventure on the high seas! Richly detailed - you'll feel you are standing there on the sloop, the Jenny, sailing along side Jack Shandy and Capn' Davies! Power really captures the twilight of the buccaneer era with a lushness and melancholy that would make anyone want to jump ship to join a pirates crew!Add to that a background of island magic, the infamous Blackbeard and you have a recipe for some very exciting story telling. I cringe, now, recalling the utter mish mash the Pirates of the Caribbean movies with their hodge podge of myth and fact and holllywood silliness.Only reason this didn't get 5 stars is that the book just ends - it resolves neatly and happily for all - but the ending is literally a page long - with the main character thinking" gosh there's all that other business about being wanted for piracy but I'm sure it'll sort it self out ok..." Would it have been so hard to write a 2 page epilogue set years later?
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