Once A Pirate

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Summary: Great Beach Book!
Review: This one wasn't too deep, but it was _highly_ entertaining cover to cover: nice love story, great characters, and a surprise ending on top of that.

Warning: it opens with a plane crash. Read that part on the ground not in the air. Otherwise head to the beach and ENJOY!

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Summary: An Attention Grabber From The Beginning!
Review: This story had me hooked from the first page and held me captivated until the very end!

Lt. Carly Callahan is a Navy Fighter Pilot whose plane goes down in the Atlantic during a thunderstorm. She awakens in the water and finds herself being pulled onto a ship that looks like it has been painstakingly restored. This ship comes complete with pirates and a Captain who's just about the biggest hunk that she has ever seen.

Captain Andrew Spencer has been planning on the best way to payback an old nemesis and that is too steal his betrothed right out from under him so to speak. He hears a faint cry for help over the side of his ship and pulls Carly out of the ocean , only problem is he thinks that she is Amanda. The girl that he plans to ransom. Once Carly starts talking Andrew now feels that he has been duped. The poor girl is clearly not in her right mind she keeps asking for Ray Dio (radio) and keeps talking about flying machines! Yeah right--the girl is addled.

Andrew and Carly despite everything start feeling things for each other that would be best ignored. Carly has her own past that has followed her back into history, and Andrew is coping with the guilt over the death of his mother and brother. Where neither felt that anyone could love them they find a love more precious then anything that they have ever experienced--but is it strong enough to last through time?

This was a fast paced page turner. Both Carly and Andrew were wonderful characters and I loved reading about them falling in love. This book offers plenty of chuckles what with the word confusion of a modern day girl thrust into the early 1800's. This was a great way to pass an afternoon.

Rating:
Summary: An Attention Grabber From The Beginning!
Review: This story had me hooked from the first page and held me captivated until the very end!

Lt. Carly Callahan is a Navy Fighter Pilot whose plane goes down in the Atlantic during a thunderstorm. She awakens in the water and finds herself being pulled onto a ship that looks like it has been painstakingly restored. This ship comes complete with pirates and a Captain who's just about the biggest hunk that she has ever seen.

Captain Andrew Spencer has been planning on the best way to payback an old nemesis and that is too steal his betrothed right out from under him so to speak. He hears a faint cry for help over the side of his ship and pulls Carly out of the ocean , only problem is he thinks that she is Amanda. The girl that he plans to ransom. Once Carly starts talking Andrew now feels that he has been duped. The poor girl is clearly not in her right mind she keeps asking for Ray Dio (radio) and keeps talking about flying machines! Yeah right--the girl is addled.

Andrew and Carly despite everything start feeling things for each other that would be best ignored. Carly has her own past that has followed her back into history, and Andrew is coping with the guilt over the death of his mother and brother. Where neither felt that anyone could love them they find a love more precious then anything that they have ever experienced--but is it strong enough to last through time?

This was a fast paced page turner. Both Carly and Andrew were wonderful characters and I loved reading about them falling in love. This book offers plenty of chuckles what with the word confusion of a modern day girl thrust into the early 1800's. This was a great way to pass an afternoon.

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Summary: Pretty Good ... But a little Boring
Review: Time travel romances are my favorite genre - I've read just about all of them. "Once a Pirate" was pretty good, especially considering this is Grant's first work, but it lacked a certain OOMPH.

This book started out interesting and had a great ending, but the entire huge middle portion was a little on the boring side. The hero and heroine were on a boat...and on a boat...and on a boat...and on a boat. When they finally made it to an island, the book is almost finished.

I don't know, maybe I was expecting more because of the raving reviews on this book, but I ended up glossing over a lot of the middle. After a while, I was hoping the boat would sink or something just so they would have different scenery.

I have to say, though, that this is Grant's first book. I think she shows a lot of potential. She just needs to add a little more zest to the middle of the book. A nice beginning is wonderful, a nice ending is terrific, and if she adds some more flair to the middle, the sky will be the limit for this writer.

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Summary: A love that reaches across time...
Review: When Carly Callahan's jet crashes into the sea she hopes to be rescued, but not by 19th century pirates! Andrew Spencer believes that he has snatched his stolen cargo, Lady Amanda, from the sea as the very ship carrying her sinks to the ocean floor. When she states that she is not Lady Amanda, that her name is really Carly and she is from the future, he believes her to be daft. Once A Pirate offers a nice blend of adventure, romance, and has the hero and heroine not only battling some nasty villains, but time itself. Recommended.

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Summary: A love that reaches across time...
Review: When Carly Callahan's jet crashes into the sea she hopes to be rescued, but not by 19th century pirates! Andrew Spencer believes that he has snatched his stolen cargo, Lady Amanda, from the sea as the very ship carrying her sinks to the ocean floor. When she states that she is not Lady Amanda, that her name is really Carly and she is from the future, he believes her to be daft. Once A Pirate offers a nice blend of adventure, romance, and has the hero and heroine not only battling some nasty villains, but time itself. Recommended.

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Summary: Fasten your seatbelts!
Review: When Lieutenant Carly Callahan's F-18C fighter has engine trouble off the coast of Spain, she reacts calmly to the situation. She's a survivor and physical emergencies don't frighten her. If there's anything she's learned in her troubled past, it's that she can rely on herself. With rehearsed precision, she follows protocol. But this time, protocol fails her. Nothing works and the plane is going down. Fast.

As the fighter loses altitude, Carly is forced to eject into a raging sea. She hits the water and disaster strikes again: her life raft doesn't open. Gagging down salt water and struggling to breathe, she flails about or omething-- anything--to hang on to. A slab of heavy timber floats past and she grabs it. Just then, the sound of an explosion rocks her world and she finds herself surrounded by the orange glow of battle . . . and in the shadow of two tall-masted ships.

Like Carly, nineteenth century sea captain Andrew Spencer tends to rely on physical, tangible things--things he can count on and control. His ships won't betray him, not like his father or his half brother. Everytime Andrew has loved someone, they've died. He won't make that mistake again. The pain is too intense. Instead, he's bent on exacting revenge against the man who has ruined his life. With satisfaction, he plucks Carly from the sea, kidnapping her. But there's just one teensy problem: Carly doesn't match the description of Lady Amanda Paxton, the woman Andrew is expecting to haul aboard.

For Carly to survive, she must use all of her wits and training. For her to return home, she must convince this angry, arrogant--and dashingly handsome--pirate to help her. Can she do it?

Susan Grant takes the reader on a high-seas adventure, filled with thunderstorms, starry nights and lush, tropical islands. But be sure and fasten your seatbelt before you sit down to read ONCE A PIRATE . . . from her fast-paced opening to the surprising ending, you're in for a thrilling ride!