Reviews by Tag: pirates

Teen Review
Daughter of the Siren Queen by Tricia Levenseller

Daughter of the Siren Queen

By Tricia Levenseller
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Helton W.
Apr 21, 2023

Daughter of the Siren Queen is the riveting second book in the Daughter of the Pirate King series by Tricia Levenseller. After Heroine Alosa discovers a secret that her father, the despot Pirate King, has withheld her entire life, everything changes. Assisted by love interest Riden and her predominantly female pirate crew, she embarks on a race against time and her father in a quest for the siren treasure and position of Pirate Queen.

Teen Review
Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller

Daughter of the Pirate King

By Tricia Levenseller
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Helton W.
Apr 21, 2023

In Daughter of the Pirate King, Tricia Levenseller creates a thrilling world in which Alosa, the daughter of the feared tyrant Pirate King, allows herself to be captured as part of her mission to retrieve an ancient map piece leading to a remarkable treasure. She encounters Riden, the brother and first mate to the captain of the rival pirate crew, and they share strong, romantic tension.

Teen Review
Red Seas under Red Skies by Scott Lynch

Red Seas under Red Skies

By Scott Lynch
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Sep 30, 2022

Red Seas under Red Skies is an unique and amazing fantasy novel by Scott Lynch. It follows
Locke and his best friend Jean as they arrive on the exotic shores of Tal Verrar, where they
must face the dangers of their past, as well as new rivals that wish to stop them at all costs
while they try to pull their most ambitious con yet. However things go wrong as they are
poisoned and the only way to gain the serum is to trick pirates into entering the city. Lock and

Teen Review
Daughter of the Siren Queen by Tricia Levenseller

Daughter of the Siren Queen

By Tricia Levenseller
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Jun 13, 2022

Daughter of the Siren Queen by Tricia Levenseller is fantasy fiction and the second book in the series. Alosa’s mission if complete, she has retrieved the map that led to the unbelievable treasure and she has three pirates from the enemy ship held captive. One of them being Riden, who is now under Alosa’s orders but still a big distraction. When Vordan reveals a huge secret ,Alosa and her crew find themselves in a race with the Pirate King. But Alosa’s not too worried, she is the daughter of the Siren Queen.

Teen Review
Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller

Daughter of the Pirate King

By Tricia Levenseller
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Nahide A.
Jun 13, 2022

Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller is a fantasy fiction. Sixteen year old captain Alosa, is set on a journey by her father to retrieve an ancient and very hidden map. Alosa’s plan to get the map is to hand herself over to the enemies as the perfect opportunity to search their ship. Alosa has one thing standing in her way, not the ship full of crewmates, but the first man Riden. One thing she didn’t expect on this journey was a clever and appealing captor who she has complicated chemistry with.

Teen Review
Daughter of the Siren Queen by Tricia Levenseller

Daughter of the Siren Queen

By Tricia Levenseller
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Lisa J.
Aug 10, 2021

After months of scheming and fighting, Alosa has finally retrieved all three pieces of the treasure map from the leaders of the pirate families — Vordan, Jeskor, and Kalligan, her father. The assembled map shows a path to the Isla de Canta, where unspeakable treasures are guarded by sirens, waiting to be claimed. Alosa plans to work with her father in order to collect the treasure, but when she discovers a terrible secret that her father has been harboring for years, she begins to question everything she’s ever known.

Teen Review
Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller

Daughter of the Pirate King

By Tricia Levenseller
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Lisa J.
Aug 2, 2021

It’s no secret that pirates are good-for-nothing swindlers, assassins, and thieves — and Alosa may be the worst of them all. Trained personally by her father, the pirate king, she has learned to be cutthroat and ruthless, and will do nearly anything to get what she wants. When Alosa is tasked with retrieving a part of a legendary treasure map that happens to be on the ship of a rival crew, she facilitates her own capture to access the map. However, she’ll have to best the unexpectedly clever and wily first mate, Riden, before she can complete her mission.

Teen Review

Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy

By L. A. Meyer

Rated by
Olivia from Leawood Pioneer Library YAAC
Jun 20, 2016

After all of Jacky’s family dies from a disease outbreak, she is forced to dress as a boy and work as a ship’s boy to survive. Now she no longer has to scavenge for food or fight for survival in the streets. As she becomes a skilled and respected member of the crew, she must use every ounce of her wit and courage to keep the crew from discovering her secret.

Teen Review

Peter & the Starcatchers

By Dave Berry

Rated by
Olivia from Leawood Pioneer Library YAAC
Mar 15, 2016

When the headmaster of St. Norbert's Home for Wayward Boys puts Peter and his mates on board a ship called the Never Land, the orphans expect bad food, seasickness and hard labor. They never anticipate meeting Molly, a young Starcatcher, or battling pirates in an effort to protect the magical "starstuff" from the wrong people. A vicious, foul-smelling pirate called Black Stache, his crew of savages and a greedy ship's captain all vie for a trunk filled with the powerful starstuff.

Staff Review

The Assassin's Curse

By Cassandra Rose Clarke
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by Josh N.
Feb 27, 2014

Ananna is the only daughter of the leaders of the Tanarau pirate clan. When her parents try to marry her off to the son of the Hariri clan, Ananna chooses to flee both families and the arranged marriage. The Hariri are so angered, they send a magic-using assassin after her. But when the assassin, Naji, confronts Ananna and she accidentally saves his life, he becomes bound to her through a powerful, magical curse. They set out on a quest to break this "impossible curse," all the while fleeing the angry Hariri clan and strange, otherwordly beings with a mysterious agenda.

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