The Pirate's Daughter: A Novel
It began with a chance meeting and led to a date at a small French restaurant in a city by the sea. She ordered expensive wine. He paid the bill. She spoke of the sea. He was haunted by her green eyes and copper-colored skin. Then, in a matter of weeks, the woman named Cricket Page would lead Wilson Lander away from the moorings of his familiar life, away from his relationship with a successful businesswoman and onto a tycoon's yacht called the Compound Interest--for a journey across the great Sargasso Sea. Coming ashore in a world of searing mystery and danger, Lander will pay the price for his unquenchable desire for Cricket Page, for their moments of stolen pleasure and her cryptic promises of a life of luxury together. For she is a pirate's daughter, and in an exotic land exploding with cruelty and violence, populated by maniacs and plunderers, Wilson Lander must escape the woman who has stolen his heart--and given him his freedom. . . .
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Yeah so this reaaaally wasn't for me. The only reason I finished it was because I was already half way through when I realised I didn't want to read this anymore, and I'm really bad at not finishing books.
This book was just utterly miserable. I was not expecting such a gruesome, horrible story, nor the unexpected references to rape, as well as the incredibly graphic depictions of slavery and racism. It was a very, very difficult book with little reward for me; even the ending where Wilson chose to come back to Andrea, while sort of sweet, was tarnished by the uncertainty of the letter from Cricket and Wilson's surprise son, as well as the annoying cliché where the main character writes the book that you're reading.
I just did not like this book at all. I can sort of see how someone could like it, so I'm not saying no one should read it, I just wouldn't recommend it to almost anyone.