Anne's few days of relaxation are about to end in all-out melee! Read Full Review

George delivers some spectacular visuals throughout this issue. The characters look amazing and the action is thrilling and full of beautiful details. Read Full Review

Identity, however, does come to play. The ship's Black first mate walks around without any questions of her right to do so in a time when freedom of movement for African descendants was hard to acquire. Likewise, if Bonny's actions were performed by a person of the opposite gender, we would all rightly decry the patriarchal negative energies being proliferated. For a woman character to adopt similar behaviors with an all-woman crew, identity requires us to look at this through a more academic lens. These questions, combined with the derring-do adventure, make this book an intriguing choice for fans of tales of high seas historical fiction. Read Full Review

Brief spats of action show that the fierceness of Anne and her party at least hasn't diminished, though I'll hope that their unique traits are emphasized more later on as Mary's are. Read Full Review