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Ill Wind: A Caribbean Pirate Adventure - Novella (The Valkyrie Series Book 2) (English Edition) Formato Kindle

Edizione Inglese di Karen Perkins (Autore) Formato: Formato Kindle
3,7 3,7 su 5 stelle 111 voti
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Seafaring historical adventure, perfect for fans of Julian Stockwin, Patrick O’Brian and Bernard Cornwell.

“A real adventure story, the like of which I have not read in many a year. Suspend reality, hold on & enjoy the adventure” — R.P. Smith, Amazon reviewer.

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Gabriella Berryngton is an unhappy and oppressed fourteen-year-old girl living in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1683. She dreams of escaping her bitter, ambitious stepfather and sailing off into the unknown.

Her dreams come true when her stepfather sells her into marriage.

Aboard the Freyja, she is hopeful that her new life in the Dutch West Indies will be an improvement - a hope that dies when she is given a slave, Klara, and a whip. She discovers that her soon-to-be father-in-law is a ruthless slave trader in league with pirates, and her fiancé is cold, unfriendly and disinterested in Gabriella. She is little more than a vessel to provide the next generation of van Eckens.

Largely ignored and desperately unhappy, she and Klara develop a friendship which makes life bearable—at first. Once married, Gabriella's life takes a turn for the worse and she descends into a world of horror and abuse until tensions finally explode. Life will never be the same and she has no choice but to take fate into her own hands.

Ill Wind is also available in the box set: The Valkyrie Series: The First Fleet with Look Sharpe! and Dead Reckoning.

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Karen Perkins grew up in and around boats and competed in her Contender dinghy, The Ride of the Valkyrie, at national and European level, taking the ladies title in both championships in 1995.

What readers say about Karen Perkins:

“Ms Perkins is a true artist of the spoken word” – Author JJ Toner

”Karen Perkins is truly a master of words, emotion, and craft” - Author Linda George

“A must read for anyone who loves stories of high adventure, privateers, and romance on the open seas" – Amazon reviewer

“Karen Perkins is a real gem of a writer!” – Amazon reviewer

“I love Karen Perkins style of writing and her connecting tales.” – Amazon reviewer

“Your books are like a binge watch on Netflix because once you start you can’t put it down” - Instagram review

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    The Valkyrie Series
  2. Lunghezza stampa
    123 pagine
  3. Lingua
    Inglese
  4. Memo
    Su Kindle Scribe
  5. Data di pubblicazione
    29 ottobre 2012
  6. Dimensioni file
    2577 KB
  7. Scorri Pagina
    Abilitato
  8. Word Wise
    Abilitato
  9. Miglioramenti tipografici
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L'autore

Karen Perkins is the author of the Yorkshire Ghost Stories, the Pendle Witch Short Stories and the Valkyrie Series of historical nautical fiction. Her fiction has appeared at the top of bestseller lists on both sides of the Atlantic, including the top 21 in the UK Kindle Store in 2018. Her first Yorkshire Ghost Story - THE HAUNTING OF THORES-CROSS - won the Silver Medal for European Fiction in the prestigious 2015 Independent Publisher Book Awards in New York, whilst her Valkyrie novel, DEAD RECKONING, was long-listed in the 2011 MSLEXIA novel competition. Originally a financial advisor, a sailing injury left Karen with a chronic pain condition (although she did take the European ladies title despite the injury!). Writing has given her a new lease of - and purpose to - life, and she is currently working on a sequel to Parliament of Rooks: Haunting Brontë Country, as well as the next Pendle Witch story.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B009Z1MK9O
  • Editore ‏ : ‎ LionheART Publishing House (29 ottobre 2012)
  • Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
  • Dimensioni file ‏ : ‎ 2577 KB
  • Da testo a voce ‏ : ‎ Abilitato
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supportato
  • Miglioramenti tipografici ‏ : ‎ Abilitato
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Non abilitato
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Abilitato
  • Memo ‏ : ‎ Su Kindle Scribe
  • Lunghezza stampa ‏ : ‎ 123 pagine
  • Numeri di pagina fonte ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1910115630
  • Recensioni dei clienti:
    3,7 3,7 su 5 stelle 111 voti

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Sarah Perry
5,0 su 5 stelle A Perkins does an excellent job portraying a 17th century Caribbean
Recensito in Canada il 9 marzo 2016
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When I received this book from the First Reads program I was excited to have found a new author that I had never heard of before. K.A Perkins does an excellent job portraying a 17th century Caribbean. An Ill Wind tells the story of a young girl, Gabriella, who is sold off into marriage to a man who, well lets just say, he isn't very nice. She befriends a slave girl who helps her through her tough times, and takes care of her as best she can. This is a novella, the first in the Valkyrie series, so its just a quick read, but has a lot of story packed into its' 116 pages.

I love when a book can make me feel for a character, whether it's a kindred feeling, one of disgust, or a feeling of pure fear. K.A. Perkins succeeded in doing that for me. I felt Gabriella's distress in leaving her mom and dad, meeting her new husband. But I also felt her confidence, and then her fear more towards the end. This book did a fantastic job at picking me up from my cold winter days, and transporting me to the hot and sticky Caribbean heat aboard the Freyja. It took me a little while to adjust to their dialect, but it really did add to the story for me. I was left wanting to know what happens next and was VERY happy to find out that the second book in the Valkyrie series, Dead Reckoning, is a full length novel!

I would recommend this book to anyone who likes a good historical adventure! I will definitely be reading the next one sometime soon, as soon as I can get my hands on it. A great start to the Valkyrie series!
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4,0 su 5 stelle Vivid and emotional storytelling, but I wouldn't call this an adventure
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 7 settembre 2014
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I don't know about anyone else who read this (and won't know anyone else's opinion on this book until I've given my own because I have since stopped reading other reviews on here before reading a book because of the lack of discretion running rampant on these forums. More than a few reviewers apparently aren't familiar with the concept of "the spoiler".), but calling this a Caribbean pirate adventure is a bit misleading.

This book read like little more than a memoir. Granted an interesting one - but nothing that brings to mind the excitement of a true pirate adventure. Yes, there is sea travel and even a token ship battle at the very beginning with a couple of attempts to bring to life rowdy scenes of dining with pirates but all of this seems almost secondary compared to the main story which focuses more on Elizabeth and her unfortunate plight.

I won't try to summarize this because the story info makes it good and clear what's going on with our lead character, Elizabeth, but I instead want to call to mind the emotions this narrative evokes.

Here you have a fourteen-year-old girl who really wasn't prepared to become a wife being thrust into a world she doesn't understands. Surrounded by slaves and pirates, Elizabeth is clearly an outsider in this world around her. Her uneasy friendship with her husband's slave, Klara, is a fragile but genuine one. The two young women find a solace in each other and share a common bond in their suffering at the hands of Erik Van Ecken.

Remembering the way her own mother never stood up for her when her own father sold her to the Van Eckens, Elizabeth responds to the cruelty she see's around her. This hasn't gone unnoticed by her husband, Erik, and when something unexpected happens that leaves Erik with more control over his family's sugar plantation, he makes it clear who's holding the whip in every since of the word.

This story is incomplete as it is, which is disappointing because I was kind of hoping this would be a stand alone story so I wouldn't feel obligated to read the next book in the series if I didn't want to. Well, there's no dramatic cliffhanger involved in this that demands you move on to the next, but on this story's own, it simply isn't complete. It would be like reading a book only to find that the middle and the end pages have all been torn out. On this story's own, I doubt you're even in the middle of this so-called pirate tale.

Hopefully the adventure part of the story becomes a bit more pronounced in the next book because in the end the promise of a pirate adventure is what captivated me to read this (Assassin's Creed Black Flag turned me into a pirate and now I can't get enough of pirate stories, go figure.). I did like this book enough to want to read the next, I just hate feeling I have to read it to get the complete gist of the story.
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Zoe
5,0 su 5 stelle Different to my normal modern reads.
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 23 marzo 2014
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Loved the map at the start to get your bearings of the locations. Tragic time to be living as a female, I think. Plot was great with hard characters. Not a good time in history but the author has crafted the images, feeling, sights and feelings well. Looking forward to next book.
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K M Author
5,0 su 5 stelle A Must Read...
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 6 novembre 2012
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Wow, what a talented writer you are, Karen! You sure know how to present word-pictures of scenes and events that appeal to the reader's imagination.

I was very interested in knowing what would become of Gabriella and was very invested in her character. I felt her feelings and emotions as she was being taken from her mother, thrust upon the ship and then brought to her new home to meet her future husband, who greeted her with coldness and reserve. I also felt sympathy for Clara, the slave woman and her predicament. Your characters are very three dimensional.

Your settings are vivid and effectively influence the plot. The book raises issues of slavery, arranged marriages, pirates and ill treatment of women. You explore these areas with such depth and detail. I can't say anything that I would change in this story. I give you 5 stars and will remember this book as one I could read over again.

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Wendy
4,0 su 5 stelle Disappointed
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 15 maggio 2013
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I enjoyed the book very much...........until I got to the end. There wasn't an end.

I get very annoyed when authors do this. There just wasn't a proper ending to the story. I understand that the author wants us to buy the next book, but it is extremely irritating when you finish a book and it leaves you hanging.

I'm sure that there could have been a better end to this book and still carry on with the next stage of the story.

Not sure if I'll bother with the next book as it will probably be the same ....without an end.
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