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A review by egbella
Cabin Girl by E.G. Bella
adventurous
emotional
inspiring
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
5.0
Hello there, I'd like you to meet my first full-length novel.
This book has been five years in the making (from September of 2018 to September of 2023) and has seen me through so much growth, both in the writing sense and as a person. I still can't believe I get to share it with you all now.
Thank you all for being here, and happy reading! <33
PARENTS'/CONTENT GUIDE
I would recommend this book for readers roughly 13+ and up.
PROFANITY: None. Plenty of creative insults but nothing vulgar.
SEXUAL CONTENT: A handful of mild references to impure intentions from pirates, but nothing is ever clearly explained and no actions are taken. Spoiler for scene-specific explanations.
- One pirate suggestively jokes about how a woman being on board their ship isn't a bad thing
- Pirates repeatedly being told "not to lay hands" on the protagonist or else
- A drunken pirate hints about finding the protagonist attractive and makes an advance but is immediately stopped.
VIOLENCE: Sea battles, physical and emotional harassment, dragging someone across the ground, depictions of slavery, fights, injuries (mildly described). See spoiler for scene-specific details.
- Multiple characters die (due to illness, shown being thrown overboard to sharks, via gunshot wounds to the chest, thrown overboard and left behind to drown)
- Frequent mention of injuries (minor injuries from sea battles are mentioned, descriptions of scurvy and poisoning, severe leg injury from shark is described as it heals, two brief/one-sentence mentions of a character vomiting)
- Fights (slaps, hair pulling, shoving, punches to head and stomach, and descriptions of the sounds of a flogging)
TOUGH TOPICS: Slavery, death, previous self-harm, depression, grief. See spoiler for more specifics.
- Slavery is detailed and described through the entire book, but presented as negative.
- Death is both shown in the present (see above for references), and past losses are referred to and struggled with.
- A conversation regarding a character's previous self-harm and intent to commit suicide, though that's no longer something they struggle with while the story takes place.
- The protagonist's mother struggles with mental illness and disassociation, which once began as severe postpartum depression.
- Grief following losses is shown, as is depression and hopelessness after difficulties.
- A character wants to give up/doesn't see the point of going on after a hardship.
Readers, if I've forgotten anything, please let me know in the comments and I'll be sure to add it here! Funny how you can forget just about everything that happens in your own book when writing something like this.
This book has been five years in the making (from September of 2018 to September of 2023) and has seen me through so much growth, both in the writing sense and as a person. I still can't believe I get to share it with you all now.
Thank you all for being here, and happy reading! <33
PARENTS'/CONTENT GUIDE
I would recommend this book for readers roughly 13+ and up.
PROFANITY: None. Plenty of creative insults but nothing vulgar.
SEXUAL CONTENT: A handful of mild references to impure intentions from pirates, but nothing is ever clearly explained and no actions are taken. Spoiler for scene-specific explanations.
Spoiler
- One pirate suggestively jokes about how a woman being on board their ship isn't a bad thing
- Pirates repeatedly being told "not to lay hands" on the protagonist or else
- A drunken pirate hints about finding the protagonist attractive and makes an advance but is immediately stopped.
VIOLENCE: Sea battles, physical and emotional harassment, dragging someone across the ground, depictions of slavery, fights, injuries (mildly described). See spoiler for scene-specific details.
Spoiler
- Multiple characters die (due to illness, shown being thrown overboard to sharks, via gunshot wounds to the chest, thrown overboard and left behind to drown)
- Frequent mention of injuries (minor injuries from sea battles are mentioned, descriptions of scurvy and poisoning, severe leg injury from shark is described as it heals, two brief/one-sentence mentions of a character vomiting)
- Fights (slaps, hair pulling, shoving, punches to head and stomach, and descriptions of the sounds of a flogging)
TOUGH TOPICS: Slavery, death, previous self-harm, depression, grief. See spoiler for more specifics.
Spoiler
- Slavery is detailed and described through the entire book, but presented as negative.
- Death is both shown in the present (see above for references), and past losses are referred to and struggled with.
- A conversation regarding a character's previous self-harm and intent to commit suicide, though that's no longer something they struggle with while the story takes place.
- The protagonist's mother struggles with mental illness and disassociation, which once began as severe postpartum depression.
- Grief following losses is shown, as is depression and hopelessness after difficulties.
- A character wants to give up/doesn't see the point of going on after a hardship.
Readers, if I've forgotten anything, please let me know in the comments and I'll be sure to add it here! Funny how you can forget just about everything that happens in your own book when writing something like this.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Violence
Minor: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Blood, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment