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Kelli J's Reviews > Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune
Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune
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Great for: Intermediate Pirate lovers, Those with great patience, and those who don't give a hoot about the aformentioned princess...
Okay for: me.
I have thoughts. I enjoyed parts of this book, which were few and far between, and maybe the last 30 pages that summed a lot of things up and talked about the "gentlemen" pirate subjects of this book in a faster paced way.
The parts I loved were those about everyday pirate life, the hardships a pirate would face and how anticlimactic mutinies actually were.
I didn't love the majority of the "battle" scenes that went on an on (in my opinion) and I could have cared less--which is odd considering I think that's what a lot of people sign up for in this type of book.
The book annoyed me in it's marketing. The rescue of a princess was mentioned in the title, as WELL as she was talked about in the first chapter--the opening lines of the book talked about the Kuna princess--this is what hooked me. Alas, that was basically all that was mentioned of her. Awesome. I feel jipped.
There were just a lot of missed opportunities to me as far as giving a bit more detail or clarification. i.e. Talking about an amputation on board and what tools would have been used, then showing an illustration of said tools, but not captioning or pointing out what exact tools WERE used (just a little detail I would have appreciated) and that occured a few other times as far as the pictures to reference. There was even a date mentioned as being one that was significant to a particular pirate, but then I reference the map and that date and it's corresponding location on the map just wasn't there. Call me a stickler, but that wasn't even a small detail, it was a huge moment to one of these guys and somehow didn't even have a date on the map!? Oy.
I wanted to like it more--but based on the good reads intepretation of 2 stars being "it was okay," that's exactly my sentiment. When my husband asked me how it was, I went "it was..okay." There you have it folks.
Okay for: me.
I have thoughts. I enjoyed parts of this book, which were few and far between, and maybe the last 30 pages that summed a lot of things up and talked about the "gentlemen" pirate subjects of this book in a faster paced way.
The parts I loved were those about everyday pirate life, the hardships a pirate would face and how anticlimactic mutinies actually were.
I didn't love the majority of the "battle" scenes that went on an on (in my opinion) and I could have cared less--which is odd considering I think that's what a lot of people sign up for in this type of book.
The book annoyed me in it's marketing. The rescue of a princess was mentioned in the title, as WELL as she was talked about in the first chapter--the opening lines of the book talked about the Kuna princess--this is what hooked me. Alas, that was basically all that was mentioned of her. Awesome. I feel jipped.
There were just a lot of missed opportunities to me as far as giving a bit more detail or clarification. i.e. Talking about an amputation on board and what tools would have been used, then showing an illustration of said tools, but not captioning or pointing out what exact tools WERE used (just a little detail I would have appreciated) and that occured a few other times as far as the pictures to reference. There was even a date mentioned as being one that was significant to a particular pirate, but then I reference the map and that date and it's corresponding location on the map just wasn't there. Call me a stickler, but that wasn't even a small detail, it was a huge moment to one of these guys and somehow didn't even have a date on the map!? Oy.
I wanted to like it more--but based on the good reads intepretation of 2 stars being "it was okay," that's exactly my sentiment. When my husband asked me how it was, I went "it was..okay." There you have it folks.
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August 3, 2022
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August 16, 2022
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August 30, 2022
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