Levenseller has created a new world for her pirates to roam in, though we don’t really learn much about it (and from what we do see, it feels very similar to ye old pirates of lore). Because they were playing at guard and prisoner and everyone had their own secret agendas, it was hard to become very invested in their (real? fake?) banter. For Riden’s part, he’s rarely come across any female pirate, much less one as self-assured, pretty, and quick-witted as Alosa, so naturally she catches his attention. Riden (Rye-den? Rid-en? This bothered me throughout the entire novel) is unlike any pirate Alosa has ever met, i.e., not a carousing, ale-soaked boor of a man, so she’s immediately intrigued and immediately disgusted with herself for feeling that way.
I’m sure Alosa’s got her charms as a captain, but we’re probably better off as passing ships in the night. If you’re going to be friends with Alosa, you need to have a really marketable skill that benefits her ship, and it’s also best if you’re a girl, since she rarely has any male crewmembers aboard her own vessel. But she can also slit a man’s throat without a second thought (and by her own boastful-and possibly trumped-up-admission, she’s killed hundreds of men), and I pump the friendship brakes hard in the face of murder.
She can be a bit (a lot) full of herself, but she also has dear old dad to thank for pushing her to her limits by starving her, chaining her up, making her fight men twice her size, and molding her into his pirate mini-me. With time running out and the map nowhere to be found, Alosa must balance her late-night searches with her urge to show these amateur pirates what she can really do.Īlosa considers herself a serious badass pirate. The puny little cell Captain Draxen orders her to be held in is no match against Alosa’s tricks of the trade, but she may have met her match in Riden, the Captain’s younger brother and appointed interrogator, who can see through Alosa’s act as simple pirate princess. I think an opportunity was missed to fashion the parchment in more of a sail shape to integrate it into the overall look.Īs the heir-apparent of the infamous pirate king, Alosa is a big believer in the mantra of “if you want it done right, do it yourself.” So she stages an elaborate ruse to get herself kidnapped by a rival pirate family so she can search their ship at her leisure for one-third of a treasure map that supposedly leads to riches beyond measure. I see what they were going for, but the cartoony vibe and the giant parchment splashed in blood just make it look too silly.
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