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Beneath Black Sails by Clare Sager
5.0
◦ I've received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review ◦
Beneath Black Sails begins with Lady Vice, years later after the first encounter from Across Dark Seas. She’s still part of the same crew when we first met her on Across Dark Seas but the change she went through from the prequel to the first book is so big. She’s got now a reputation that would make everyone jealous, and on top of that, she also got a pirate hunter on her heels. She’s totally changed, her character growth from the prequel to this book is unbelievable. She’s confident, strong and for sure doesn’t care what people think about her, she’s finally her true self, the same self she always longed to be but was never allowed to.
At first, I didn’t know what to expect from a pirate story, since I’ve never read one before, but this has taken me by surprise. You have plenty of elements in the story that weaves together so effortlessly, you have pirates, hunter pirates, fae-touched, fae-blooded, and a world full of adventure that awaits to be explored. The story since its a pirate story contains a lot of wording about ships and pirates and having English as the second language, it did make my reading a little bit tricky, but also very interesting because you get so much information about the ships and how they work and the world-building makes your imagination go like crazy.
The story is very intricate and so full of twists and moments that will leave you speechless. The relationship between Knigh and Vice is a bittersweet enemy to lovers with a dash of forbidden love, the sexual tension between them is such a bliss, and their sensual moment is very, very steamy. I liked the fact they are so opposite but at the same time, they’re so alike which makes their “relationship” even more amazing. When Knigh discovered the past connection between them that was such a breaking moment because everything changed and if his actions in the past were not so noble, what he did next for her was really, really beautiful.
Another thing I loved about this story was the body positivity, Vice thought bodies are just bodies and everyone’s body is beautiful and I so loved that part, because even tho Knigh was described as being very hot she never looked at him like a piece of meat ready to be grabbed, but saw him beautiful and didn’t understood why females never said that more often to the men. I really loved that. Also, we get such an amazing cat as a character, Barnacle is like my favorite pet from this story and I hope it will show up in the next books because Barnacle is more than a cat!
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Beneath Black Sails begins with Lady Vice, years later after the first encounter from Across Dark Seas. She’s still part of the same crew when we first met her on Across Dark Seas but the change she went through from the prequel to the first book is so big. She’s got now a reputation that would make everyone jealous, and on top of that, she also got a pirate hunter on her heels. She’s totally changed, her character growth from the prequel to this book is unbelievable. She’s confident, strong and for sure doesn’t care what people think about her, she’s finally her true self, the same self she always longed to be but was never allowed to.
At first, I didn’t know what to expect from a pirate story, since I’ve never read one before, but this has taken me by surprise. You have plenty of elements in the story that weaves together so effortlessly, you have pirates, hunter pirates, fae-touched, fae-blooded, and a world full of adventure that awaits to be explored. The story since its a pirate story contains a lot of wording about ships and pirates and having English as the second language, it did make my reading a little bit tricky, but also very interesting because you get so much information about the ships and how they work and the world-building makes your imagination go like crazy.
The story is very intricate and so full of twists and moments that will leave you speechless. The relationship between Knigh and Vice is a bittersweet enemy to lovers with a dash of forbidden love, the sexual tension between them is such a bliss, and their sensual moment is very, very steamy. I liked the fact they are so opposite but at the same time, they’re so alike which makes their “relationship” even more amazing. When Knigh discovered the past connection between them that was such a breaking moment because everything changed and if his actions in the past were not so noble, what he did next for her was really, really beautiful.
Another thing I loved about this story was the body positivity, Vice thought bodies are just bodies and everyone’s body is beautiful and I so loved that part, because even tho Knigh was described as being very hot she never looked at him like a piece of meat ready to be grabbed, but saw him beautiful and didn’t understood why females never said that more often to the men. I really loved that. Also, we get such an amazing cat as a character, Barnacle is like my favorite pet from this story and I hope it will show up in the next books because Barnacle is more than a cat!
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