pickKestrel is an untrained magic user and is hiding as the Quartermaster on a pirate ship when everything goes wrong. The captain is arrested, the ship is stolen, and there is a traitor hidden among the crew.
Kes rallies who she can to help and sets out to take back the ship and rescue the captain all while being chased by the Prince‘s men and mages but little is what it seems.
Between the sheets. I've been terrible at making time to read lately. It's a dilemma I think about every single day. I owe the library a salary's worth of late fees by now. ANYWAY I like this book a lot, especially as swashbuckling fantasy with a female pirate lead, and it has only dragged a little.
It's so very true. It's a strange feeling when everyone else continues living their normal lives, oblivious to your crisis.
She didn't fear much of anything, but magic, and the men who practiced it, made her skin crawl. Popular rumor insisted the magi never set foot off land, one of her prime reasons for choosing a life on water. But rumor had been proven wrong before.
Mad Kestrel | 
