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Summary: A little overlong...
Review: After reading The Forbidden Lord and The Dangerous Lord (with are both very good, and well worth reading) I went out of my way to buy this out of print book at auction. Jeffries is a good writer - better than many romance authors, and her stories all have strong, independant-minded heroines and interesting, flawed and vulnerable heros. This book is no exception. The story was interesting, but a bit o-v-e-r-l-o-n-g. I really wasn't interested in the secondary characters with the pointed exception of the heroine's stepbrother, Jordan Willis, who was the most interesting, complex character in the book (he re-appears in The Forbidden Lord, and he's great there, too!). I very much like the way her books in this trilogy meld into each other. Something about that Jordan Willis... :-)
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Summary: Original storyline!
Review: Gideon is the most feared pirate in Christendom. His hatred for the English is legendary and serves as the driving force behind his pirate raids. Lately, however, he and his men have been quite listless. After all, how much gold and jewels can a pirate need? Deciding it's time to retire to their own unchartered island of paradise, all Gideon and his men need are wives. Unfortunately they find that the mere mention of the pirate lord's name causes daddies to lock up their daughters. Not even the ladybirds are interested. When the pirates hear of the ladies convict ship set for New South Wales, there seems to be only one answer.Lady Sara is on board the convict ship as a tutor. She is unlike anyone Gideon has ever met before. Altough part of the British Peerage, she is a reformer and will fight for the rights of the women on the ship. She adamantly opposes the idea of her women being taken away to start new lives not of their own choosing. She works hard to make Gideon see they wouldn't make good wives-such as teaching the women the Greek play Lysistrata, where the women refuse sexual favors until their men stop warring! Of course Sara and Gideon come together explosively and everything works out in the end. How they get there is an original treat of a storyline.
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Summary: truly disappointing, dry book
Review: I am disappointed that the book didn't meet the good reviews I read about before I bought the book. I've read most of S.Jeffries' books, but this one I find it truly lacking in a lot of areas. Nothing in Sara's character compelled me to like her, even in the end. She was annoying and irritating. Even Gideon said that a few times in the book! She's a little self absorbed with what she wants, she thinks for the women rather than let them have their say in what they want. As Queenie would call her, "high and mighty" she never saw it through the perspective of a convicted women, because she mostly was treated way better than the convicted women did, so what does she have to complain about? I would have been more compelled by her character if she actually went through what the convicted women went through in sleeping in the floor rather than in a private bed to herself. She didn't have much to complain about in choosing a husband since the men left her alone. Gideon does most of the compromises, yet she never thanked or appreciated his change of plans. I was not convinced that she loved him as much as he loves her, all she did was take and he did all the giving! All she made me feel was sorry for her because she couldn't accept the passionate side of her, and blamed it on Gideon for corrupting her to have .... She thought it was a mistake after their first night together, and felt guilty for having it, yet ten min later she goes at it with him. Just shows how much she loves to complain in the book! This book wouldn't be so bad if Sara stopped complaining at a certain point, accept changes, and adapt to those changes for the women and herself. For a reformer, she isn't much of one, since she never made any changes to herself, yet expects other to do it for her. I don't see her changing as a character should, she remains the same spoiled person she was in the beginning. I would suggest you read S. Jeffries other books,and pass this one.
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Summary: Too fairy tale
Review: I bought this book after I read some of the other reader's comments about it. I was disappointed. It starts out very promising but then slides downhill. The ending was a bit much for me to believe. In fact I found this book to be too fairy tale like for my tastes. If you like books that are 'oh-so sweet' then this book is for you. I doubt that I'll be buying anymore of Ms. Jeffries books.
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Summary: Were is my Pirate?
Review: I could not put this book down. This was the first book I read by this author and it did not disappoint. I hated for this book to end. I highly recomend this book to anyone who wants a book they can't put down, nonstop, sensual love story!
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: I couldn't put the book down, Sara and Gideon where to stubborn people who couldn't admit the love they share when they saw each other on the "Chastity". Gideon was the expected hero and Sara was the right women who needed rescuing. You will not be disappointed with this love story.
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Summary: I COULDN'T PUT IN DOWN!
Review: I couldn't put this one down! A group of misfit but handsome pirates decide they want to reform...what better way than to settle down with a wife and start a family? So they set out to do just that by capturing an English Convict ship full of women (headed towards exile for minor crimes)...a MUST READ!
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Summary: A fantastic Story.
Review: I just loved the book, couldn't put it down. This is the first
Sabrina Jeffries book I'd read, but it wont be the last.
Captain of a Pirate ship, Gideon Horn, is a horn bag!
Seeking retirement from their lives of piracy of preying on Noblemen's ships, the entire crew of the pirate vessel 'Satyr' want to settle down on their unchartered paradise island called 'Atlantis.' Gideon Horn tries unsuccessfully to secure wives for each one of his crew to take to the island, until they spot the convict ship the 'Chastity', carrying the very cargo they need---women!
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Summary: I had to find this book at an auction..
Review: I read Jeffries' lord trilogy books pretty much in reverse order- The Dangerous Lord and then The Forbidden Lord. When I tried to order the Pirate Lord, I discovered that it was out of print! I had to search for this book on an auction site. Well, it was definitely worth my time and money because this book was the best of the series. Gideon, the hero, is a pirate who makes his living robbing British noblemen. Sara, the heroine, is a reformer. She is on a ship with women who are being shipped to America for committing petty crimes in England. She is their teacher. Gideon attacks their ship. His men want to get married. Him included. He commands the women on the ship to pick husbands from his ship. He is falling in love with Sara but does not know what to do because he has never been in love and does not know how to get her to pick him for a husband. His character shows a great deal of vulnerability. You see the story from his point of view too- not just hers as so many books tend to do. Both characters are very strong and I enjoyed the chemistry between them very much. Just loved Gideon - what a hero!
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Summary: WHAT A GREAT STORY!
Review: I was mesmerized by the two main characters and captivated by the storyline. I just discovered this author and I really like her work. Her characters are very fresh and likeable. The hero is a pirate and he falls in love with the heroine who is quite horrified with his profession. He falls in love with her from the very beginning when he is forcing her to select a husband from his motley crew. He is quite beside himself when he discovers that she has selected someone outside of him to be her betrothed. That is when the story begins. Happy reading!
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