Seeing as India Holton's new book, The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love, is coming out soon, I figured I'd do a review on her first series.
As you can guess from the title, we have a society of lady scoundrels, and scoundrels in this case being pirates. Yes, we have a book about lady pirates. Not to say there aren't any male pirates in this series, as there most definitely is (this is a romance series), but the main character of this book is one of these lady scoundrels. And these pirates are still proper ladies.
Honestly, the premise alone was funny, but reading the actual book is even better. I don't read many historical books, even less ones set in Victorian England, but this one pulled me in.
One thing you all should know is that these are not the kind of pirates that sail on ships with Jolly Rogers blowing about in the ocean breeze. No, these pirates drive houses. With Jolly Rogers blowing about in the high altitude breeze. This book is a fantasy with magic, so I guess it shouldn't be a surprise that the houses fly, but they have an actual ship's wheel for steering and everything. Even canons if you can believe it.
As you get through the other two books in the series, you even have witches and super spies that work for the Queen. Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, is even in these books. Though you can imagine, given the nature of these books, that she is not historically accurate and very out of character. But in a fun way.
Another magic fantasy book with a unique take on how magic operates and I could never get over the fact that we have pirates whose ships are their houses. A wide plethora of interesting characters and you've got one amazing book. There's also a bit of mystery to add some flavour.
At the end of the day, we have a humous book with romance, magic, mystery and a reminder that women are not to be underestimated. Our heroines, Pirate Cecilia Bassingwaite (Book 1), Witch Charlotte Pettifer (Book 2) and Spy Alice Dearlove (Book 3), are dangerous damsels indeed.
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