Estimated Reading Time: 7min

What does it look like to join a bunch of pirates as a young girl with a talent of finding gemstones to trade? Wait, but we also need to add in the element of her father technically being someone important and her grit and determination to do whatever it is that she needs to survive.

Fable

As the daughter of the most powerful trader in the Narrows, the sea is the only home seventeen-year-old Fable has ever known. It’s been four years since the night she watched her mother drown during an unforgiving storm. The next day her father abandoned her on a legendary island filled with thieves and little food. To survive she must keep to herself, learn to trust no one and rely on the unique skills her mother taught her. The only thing that keeps her going is the goal of getting off the island, finding her father and demanding her rightful place beside him and his crew. To do so Fable enlists the help of a young trader named West to get her off the island and across the Narrows to her father.

But her father’s rivalries and the dangers of his trading enterprise have only multiplied since she last saw him and Fable soon finds that West isn’t who he seems. Together, they will have to survive more than the treacherous storms that haunt the Narrows if they’re going to stay alive.

Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of a Parent, Violence, Abandonment
Moderate: Murder, Death, Blood
Minor: Sexual Content, Alcohol, Kidnapping

My Review

I really enjoyed this story.
It was life on the dangerous high seas without SA or too much degradation.
It was distrusting everyone but relying on everyone all at once.
It was treasure hunting, betrayal and trading.
It had everything I never knew I wanted.

Namesake

Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Kidnapping, Death
Moderate: Death of a Parent, Murder, Sexual Content
Minor: Abandonment, Blood, Alochol

My Review

The first book was a pirate girl finding her own way in the world. The second was pirate politics in action.
This was interesting, but less action and a lot more politics, manoeuvring and adventure mixed into one.
It was nice to see the characters on action again, and the continuation of the story was pretty good.
Strap into your lifelines, it’s going to be a bumpy ride.

The Last Legacy

When a letter from her uncle Henrick arrives on Bryn Roth’s eighteenth birthday, summoning her back to Bastian, Bryn is eager to prove herself and finally take her place in her long-lost family.

Henrik has plans for Bryn, but she must win everyone’s trust if she wants to hold any power in the delicate architecture of the family. It doesn’t take long for her to see that the Roths are entangled in shadows. Despite their growing influence in upscale Bastian, their hands are still in the kind of dirty business that got Bryn’s parents killed years ago. With a forbidden romance to contend with and dangerous work ahead, the cost of being accepted into the Roths may be more than Bryn can pay.

Content Warnings

Graphic: Child Abuse, Violence, Physical Abuse
Moderate: Death of a Parent, Emotional Abuse, Alcohol
Minor: Murder, Blood, Sexual Content

My Review

It’s been a while since I read the first two as I knew this was a bit more separate from those and in doing so, I kind of shot myself in the foot.
Technically part of the series, but I don’t remember what the link even is. These people are very separate with only a minor link to the rest and without establishing with anyone in the main character list from book 1 and 2, it was just very separate.
I didn’t get the high seas pirate ship adventure like the first two books which was why I was interested in the first place. This felt boring, which for a family of criminals wasn’t expected. The last third was the most interesting but it honestly took me so long to get there that I didn’t care anymore. I just wanted this book to be over, which was different to my experience of the first two.
Didn’t really care about the characters or what was going on, but it was written well. If you’re interested in a book with this time period you may enjoy. Not for me.

Would I Recommend This Book?

I would absolutely recommend books 1 and 2, but book 3 is a on the edge for me. Certainly not as a trilogy, but a duology, for sure!

Similar Books You Might Like

If you are thinking what kind of books would have similar feel, themes or content, here is a list that you can consider:

• To Kill a Kingdom (Alexandra Christo)
• Daughter of the Pirate King (Tricia Levenseller)
• The Bear and the Nightingale (Katherine Arden)

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See You in the Adventures!
Christy Grace