Seafire

Read the preview and passed for several reasons.

#1
“At least if I'm to die, it'll be at the hands of someone lovely.” His eyes charted a slow course over her face.Warmth crept into Caledonia's cheeks.

&&

He touched her cheek, and Caledonia gasped, her arm lowering. She felt his hand slide into her hair, felt a spike of delicious heat follow his grazing fingers.

Context? Our leading lady Caledonia is holding a boy that works for the big bad that she's been warned against at gun point. ... But there's this energy...

#2
I did a little research. Look, I like pirates. But I like pirates like these:



And these:



And maybe even these:



I do not like pirates like these:



Or like these:



(Side note: TBH, there's a reason I've only been able to watch the first two episodes of Black Sails.)

I read some of the glowing and four star reviews for this book. I believe it's going to have too much of things I don't like. (Specifically the drug stuff, but also the violence.)

The the Bullets began their gruesome work of dragging the dead to their ship and hoisting the bodies of the slain on the metal pikes studding their rail.

A) That's not sanitary. B) I'm making the right decision to not even try reading past the sample.

#3
I did my research. Which included looking at the sequels. ... Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I misunderstood the synopsis of book two but... A HUGE reason I was interested in this book was because of the all woman pirate crew. The synopsis of book two...sounds like that...well, read the synopsis of you want to know. Like I said. I might be wrong. If I am, that's great! I personally still have two good reasons why I'm not continuing this book.