Reviewed by --
Jacqueline Driggers
Book Review of -- The
Blue Diamond by P.S. Bartlett
Overall star rating
--- 2.5
About the book:
When four spirited
young women find themselves orphaned and alone in an unforgiving world, they
are forced to defend not only their honor but their very lives.
Ivory Shepard, has
made a name for herself as the notorious pirate "Ivory Razor," while
she and her handy cousins; Cass, Keara and Miranda are building a life in Port
Royal, Jamaica. When she takes a merchant ship and finds a bag full of rare diamonds,
including one very large blue one, she never imagined she'd end up captured and
held prisoner by a rival pirate.
Maddox Carbonale aka
"Blacksnake" intends to collect a fifty thousand pound bounty on her
head and earn a pardon in the process, until a fiery attraction ignites between
them. Regardless of their first passionate night together, by the time the sun
rises the next morning, Ivory is reminded why she trusts no one and she's left
wondering if her fate is sealed due to Blacksnake's greed or Maddox's wounded
ego.
Ultimately unable to
deny his feelings for her, Maddox offers his loyalty and his guns. but no one can take anything from Ivory
Shepard that she doesn't want to give; certainly not her freedom, and most of
all, her heart.
Will she prove she can
have it all on her own terms; the man, the blue diamond and her freedom?
Book creation ratings:
Overall total -- 17
out of a possible 30
-- Story &
characters -- 3
-- Cover & title
-- 7
-- Editing &
formatting -- 7
The review --
I did not like this
book. What I expected of the book, from the cover and blurb, the book did not
deliver. I liked the Maddox character in the book, but the female pirate
characters were way too macho for that time period. And the men were all way
too weak. The author just reversed it all; the women were macho and the men
were almost feminine. Also, the book was too long; the author used 10 words
where 5 would have done very nicely. I especially didn't like the main
character of Ivory. This is definitely not a book I would recommend anyone
plunking down their money for.
Reader Recommendations
Genre -- romance?
historical fiction? adventure?
Age recommendations --
18 plus
Sex content rating --
moderate
Violence rating --
high
Links for the book:
Buy it on Amazon
Author's Amazon page
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