Steel
by Carrie Vaughn
Book: Stand Alone
Publisher: HarperTeen
Pub Date: March 2011
Genre: Young Adult
Format: Print
Source: Bought
It was a slender length of rusted steel,
tapered to a point at one end and jagged at the other, as if it had broken. A
thousand people would step over it and think it trash, but not her.
This was the tip of a rapier.
This was the tip of a rapier.
Sixteen-year-old Jill has
fought in dozens of fencing tournaments, but she has never held a sharpened
blade. When she finds a corroded sword piece on a Caribbean beach, she is
instantly intrigued and pockets it as her own personal treasure.
The broken tip holds secrets, though, and it transports Jill through time to the deck of a pirate ship. Stranded in the past and surrounded by strangers, she is forced to sign on as crew. But a pirate's life is bloody and brief, and as Jill learns about the dark magic that brought her there, she forms a desperate scheme to get home—one that risks everything in a duel to the death with a villainous pirate captain.
Time travel, swordplay, and romance combine in an original high-seas adventure from New York Times bestseller Carrie Vaughn.
The broken tip holds secrets, though, and it transports Jill through time to the deck of a pirate ship. Stranded in the past and surrounded by strangers, she is forced to sign on as crew. But a pirate's life is bloody and brief, and as Jill learns about the dark magic that brought her there, she forms a desperate scheme to get home—one that risks everything in a duel to the death with a villainous pirate captain.
Time travel, swordplay, and romance combine in an original high-seas adventure from New York Times bestseller Carrie Vaughn.
My Review: This book was okay...not what I'm used to fro Carrie.
Everything started off just fine with Jill in her fencing tournaments, going on vacation with her family, etc. Just typical and normal teenage stuff. But that all changes during a walk on the beach.
Jill finds an old sword, so old its rusted and broken. Heck, it even looks centuries old, and boy little did she know about that.
On a boat ride with her family, Jill falls overboard and ends up on the Diana ship that's lead by an awesome pirate lady. Jill is now surrounded by pirates and no clue that she just jumped back centuries to where pirates still existed everywhere.
Unfortunately, this is where it starts to get boring for me. First few chapters about learning the ropes of the ship and all around her was great. But then from there the story and details just dragged out longer than it needed to. I think with less chapters of her out at sea would have made the book better.
By the time, we got back to where Jill was brought back to present time, there was barley any pages left and I would have preferred to have a little more about what it's like being back.
Overall, it was okay.
Everything started off just fine with Jill in her fencing tournaments, going on vacation with her family, etc. Just typical and normal teenage stuff. But that all changes during a walk on the beach.
Jill finds an old sword, so old its rusted and broken. Heck, it even looks centuries old, and boy little did she know about that.
On a boat ride with her family, Jill falls overboard and ends up on the Diana ship that's lead by an awesome pirate lady. Jill is now surrounded by pirates and no clue that she just jumped back centuries to where pirates still existed everywhere.
Unfortunately, this is where it starts to get boring for me. First few chapters about learning the ropes of the ship and all around her was great. But then from there the story and details just dragged out longer than it needed to. I think with less chapters of her out at sea would have made the book better.
By the time, we got back to where Jill was brought back to present time, there was barley any pages left and I would have preferred to have a little more about what it's like being back.
Overall, it was okay.
My Rating:
✪✪✪✪✪
