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varmint3 's review for:
On Stranger Tides
by Tim Powers
I enjoyed this quite a bit - the humor is "dry", not slapstick as you might expect from pirate movies such as POTC or Yellowbeard, so be prepared for that... but it is plentiful. The main drawback is that the only female character of note is pretty much drugged unconscious through the whole book - she's more of a plot device than an actual character. This could have been 5+ stars if the author had found some way to incorporate a vital, strong woman in the same role. Even worse, the few times she was conscious, she WAS smart and funny and even a little tough - shoe could have been so much more.
Two of the villains are creepy beyond belief, and both have incest issues - and who would think there was such variety of creepiness even in that single vein! Could be really disturbing to some readers, just a heads up... the straightforward pirates and voodoo masters are wicked, but in a much more fun (& understandable) way!
Two of the villains are creepy beyond belief, and both have incest issues - and who would think there was such variety of creepiness even in that single vein! Could be really disturbing to some readers, just a heads up... the straightforward pirates and voodoo masters are wicked, but in a much more fun (& understandable) way!