A bit of swashbuckling glamour, a touch of democracy and some really good characterisation. I really enjoyed this book.
It’s a bold attempt to give life to ideas we think of as modern but which have existed through time. People have always loved in different ways. This book gives life to those ideas in a different setting but without preaching about it.
This was a great tale about pirates, power, family with just a smidgen of democracy. It attempts some bold questions, how did good people survive in a time that was definitely less good. How do people survive in systems they don’t believe in?
I like the structure, it was inventive, the movement between the narratives, felt natural. The characters seemed real and you brought into their struggle.
At its heart this book, for all its swashbuckling glamour, is about family and friendship, how it can be built and how it can fall apart. It examines relationships and how society compresses and corrupts them to its own ends. It’s a moving tale of a child growing up and making his own decisions about what is wrong and what is right. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I was offered this book for free for an honest review.
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