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7.5/10
A fun adventure romp with pirates and magical creatures that would be really enjoyable and then would dive into an annoying romance that really brought it down IMO. Will def read the sequels, really liked Amina, although a lot of the side characters blended together. The villain was nothing special, but I did like a lot of the magical elements in this story! The PotC inspiration was a little too blatant in some spots but didn't really impact my enjoyment.

There was a framing device in the story of present day Amina telling the story to a chronicler and I thought these sections were a bit cheesy and overdone, but they didn't show up too frequently.

I think if the sequel dialed up the grit by 25% and dialed down talking about demon's asses by 100%, it'll be a really awesome book.