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Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller

150 reviews

malley's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Confinement, Child abuse, and Torture

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexism, Blood, Violence, Kidnapping, and Death

Minor: Sexual harassment

taryn_g's review against another edition

adventurous funny tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Blood

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexism, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual assault

zoeelora's review

adventurous dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fatphobia, Gun violence, Abandonment, Alcohol, Blood, Death, Emotional abuse, Murder, Toxic relationship, Violence, Body shaming, Child abuse, Confinement, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Rape, Torture, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

aevanderboor's review

adventurous dark funny tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Gore, Violence, and Blood

hannibanani29's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Kidnapping, and Confinement

Moderate: Sexual violence, Gun violence, Death of parent, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Torture, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, and Murder

Minor: Sexism, Rape, Outing, Homophobia, Alcohol, Sexual content, Medical content, and Cannibalism

_chlo_ver_'s review

adventurous dark funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Emotional abuse, Violence, War, Blood, Alcohol, Sexual content, and Murder

Minor: Sexual assault and Torture

sunflower_soph's review

adventurous funny tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.5

If nothing else it was a fast paced book about pirates that I could get through in a day. While a strong female pirate for the lead was mildly entertaining, the romance was built on cheap tropes and undercut her strength and wit as a character. It was at times hard to tell if the novel wanted to by a YA novel with its simpler adventure plot or an adult fantasy given some
of the dark and/or adult themes and potentially triggering content. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Torture

Moderate: Sexual harassment and Sexual assault

edensreading's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Gun violence, Violence, Sexual harassment, and Child abuse

Moderate: Confinement, Body horror, Kidnapping, Blood, and Death

Minor: Rape

adancewithbooks's review against another edition

adventurous funny fast-paced

2.0

  Thank you to Pushkin Press and Netgalley for the review copy in exchange for an honest review. This does not change my opinion in anyway. 

I had high expectations of Daughter of the Pirate King. I've always loved pirates and I do love Pirates of the Carribean. However this book did not live up to it.

Alossa lets herself get kidnapped by this pirate crew to retrieve a map. But she finds a little more than she bargained for in her captor Riden.

And if that doesn't sound like a recipe for a romance I don't know what does. A lot of my problem with this book is regarding the romance. Not only are they violent towards one another, Riden lets his brother take her to hurt and rape her. I don't know how that is suppose to make a good basis for a relationship.

A lot of the moments in the first three quarter are the book are also there to serve for the romance. Riden taking a prisoner in his room is just bloody stupid. Letting a prisoner walk around your ship for multiple nights to see what she is up to is even worse. I'm sorry but in that regard these were a bunch of stupid vanilla pirates. Everything is worked around to fit for the romance and making Alossa seem super great. It is obnoxious in every way.

Lets not talk about the world building because there isn't much there. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Attempted Rape

samone2's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Torture

Moderate: Child abuse, Physical abuse, and Sexual assault

Minor: Rape and Sexual harassment