Piratica II - Return to Parrot Island, by Tanith Lee
This is a great book, and not just for kids. The sequel to Piratica, where, in a parallel England, the teenage Art(emisia) Blastside took up piracy on the high seas, this sees her happliy married to Felix Phoenix (think Orlando Bloom in Pirates of the Caribbean) and living the life of a lady. Before long however, events conspire to take her back to sea, with both old crew and new, as a government sanctioned priveteer. Her plan is to instead go looking for the Treasured Isle, with its maps showing all the buried treasure in the world (found and then lost in the first book). Things go awry however, she is seperated from Felix and then wrecked on the coast of Africa, before eventually ending up in the midst of a naval battle. She must contend with a lost Egyptian tribe, old enemies thought to be dead, and the ghostly ship of Mary Hell...
This was definitely a book I didn't want to put down - some of Tanith Lee's writing can go a bit wiggy on you, but her children's stuff is generally excellent and this certainly was. Similar in style to her Wolf Tower books (also recommended), the Piratica books are great fun - and unresolved elements of this story (such as the rebuilding of the ship to secret pirated blueprints) suggest there will be more to come - I certainly hope so.
posted by Izzy @ 1:18 pm
3 Comments:
Tanith Lee has to be congratualted on this amazing book. What the author does so well is she manages to intertwine romance for girls and action for boys so smoothly giving an exceptional book. I must reccommend reading this.
]Tanith Lee has to be congratulated on this amazing book. What the author does so well is she manages to intertwine romance for girls and action for boys so smoothly giving an exceptional book. I must recommend reading this.
A very poor book, i found the romance seems to dominate the action. I never really got involved in this book from start to finish. If you are boy i would definitely recommend to not read this book.
P.S who ever wrote the last comment i advise you to rethink unless as the statement you just said is very unknowledgable, undefinite, and untrue from my perspective but i understand you may have a different opinion and i respect that so no harm done.
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