“Neither do I, and if I knew I would die I would want you yo live.” “Oui, with my dying breath I will kill you. “If you feel yourself mortally wounded, you will take me with you?” It doesn’t make justice to books like this one. I said this with awe, because I’m used to well defined characters in m/m, and even well developed, but once or twice I bump into a book like this one and I remember why I didn’t give 5 stars to those. They are good bred by the author, they are cared for, they are ALIVE. But he is not the only reason about this reminiscence, I also point to the growth of the characters. It could be a coincidence Gaston is red haired, or ¿virgin?, or too scarred to be considered the result of a normal punishment for some mild crime. In a certain fashion, this series reminds me of Diana Gabaldon’s one. And calling Gaston an anti-hero is a way too simple.
Because, you see, Will is not the typical hero. It’s marvelous the way the author achieved to build minds and souls like those. Yeah, the MC are not bidimensional, instead a layer and a layer and a layer have been painted, so in the end they are alive and spirited and problematic, because it’s an understatement that it’s not easy to solve conflicts with that level of intelligence and conscience in such characters. Yeah, the setting is unusual and requires lots of research. This book is ambitious in more than one sense. If you are scared at this, please, quit reading and forget about this book.īut if you have curiosity as for why I loved Brethren so much, please, go on. In my defense I must say it is quite long (540 pages) and the density of each one of them was surprisingly heavy.įurthermore, the MC don’t meet till page 134. I’m not a fast reader, but I’m an avid one. This is a single novel divided in 4 volumes.***
Three stars for being really gay and piratey. Is that a rec? I don't know, but I'll read the next book in the series. What I'm saying is that this is a schmoopy, smarmy, piratey romance that reads just like really good badfic. Together they try to overcome their emotional scars in order to find love and buggery. Will, our pirate narrator, has a pretty arbitrary set of morals and a weird hangup with classifying everyone as either a sheep or a wolf - I mean, who does that? Psychopaths, I'd imagine - and his pirate mate Gaston seems to have no set personality at all, beyond a severe case of PTSD.
The first hundred pages aren't exciting or even necessary, so if you're trying to read this, go ahead and skim or just skip right to Jamaica. This is basically every pirate AU ever in particular, the AU where gay pirates mate for life and spend a lot of time doing improbable things in hammocks in between killing people and having emotional problems.
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