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*deep breath*
good book, right? I mean, I gave it four stars. can’t be that bad. frankly I read this a week ago and all I remember is what I was pissed off about so here goes.

beware: spoilers ahead

OKAY SO.
what in the world was the romance.
no, seriously?? SERIOUSLY??????
it’s just�� sometimes instalove is horrible, and I get over it.
you know when I can’t get over it?
when there is a character just standing there, literally one of the most important secondary characters and you just��. act like they wouldn’t be perfect for your ONE ROMANTIC INTEREST????
ok time to explain.
caledonia is the MC, the captain of the ship, and the entire book is narrated in her point of view. as a child, she lost her family to the Bullets, some sort of supersoldiers (?) headed by some dude named Aric. he essentially has control of the sea and everyone’s scared of him. so anyways, Caledionia believes it was her fault; she hesitated in the face of a Bullet and as a result, lost her family and the entire crew (or so she believes��).
uhhh fast forward a couple years later and she managed to get the ship back after the attack from the Bullets, she’s leading a crew of all-female pirates (ok she mentions that they aren’t pirates somewhere in the book, but I honestly forget what she said they were instead�� so we can call them pirates) along with her one surviving friend from way back when, Pisces.
Pisces is an incredibly important character, and in my eyes, one of the best. she’s the water to Caledonia’s fire, she’s the warm to her cold. when nobody can calm her down, she’s there for her. I genuinely loved the friendship and sisterhood between them and thought there was a lot of emotional value to their disagreements and how they came back together as sisters time after time.
so Caledonia commands the ship, she’s got something close to 50 girls and one mission: to slowly damage Aric’s fleet. and one day, they’re attacking some Bullets and Pisces gets captured!!! but no worries cause some Bullet named Oran (i think) saves her and abandons his crew for her.
yada yada Caledonia doesn’t trust him, refer to previous incident where trusting a Bullet got everyone she knew killed�� honestly i understood where she was coming from. it didn’t annoy me even though i secretly loved Oran- i loved Caledonia because she wasn’t about to make the same mistake twice. she’s lost too much, now she isn’t trying to lose her crew.
SO TELL ME WHY SHE’S KISSING ORAN AT THE END
sorry, I really just couldn’t get to this fast enough
you’re telling me:
Pisces, who time after time put her life on the line for Oran to stay alive, took care of him, worried for him, constantly thinking about him!!
is NOT THE RIGHT CHOICE FOR HIM
BUT CALEDONIA, WHO WAS FIVE MINUTES AGO WILLING TO GET HIM KILLED FOR ANYTHING, BUT SUDDENLY AFTER GETTING TIED TO HIM WITH A ROPE AND EATING FROM THE SAME PLATE AS HIM FALLS IN LOVE
IS A MORE DESERVING LOVE INTEREST
i just-
you had a perfectly well developed romance that would have made sense and instead you have these two completely contrasting characters all over each other in the last 20 pages of your book?? why???????? there was no development no nothingggg
so what I would have loved to see:
Pisces getting a POV because sometimes caledonia was getting a little annoying, a little boring and Pisces was around Oran all the time, so we could have gotten to know him a little better
maybe next book Oran and Pisces can be a think? pretty please? i’m hoping that Pisces getting pissed off when she found the two ““““LOVEBIRDS”””�� kissing is jealousy and Oran realizes he’s missing out on a girl who actually�� wow could u imagine??... doesn’t hand him over to death any opportunity she gets!
overall plot-wise it was a pretty decent pirate story and i’m excited to see where the series goes!

yeah really sorry about this pitiful excuse of a review but i don’t really remember a lot. which should tell you something, i guess.