Author: Keira Andrews
Title: Kidnapped by the Pirate
Language: English
Format: ebook
Rating: 3 stars
Reading challenge: A book on the subject which was your favourite in Reading Challenge 2016
No of pages: 280
Date read: 27.10.2017
BLURB:
Will a virgin captive surrender to this pirate’s sinful touch?Nathaniel Bainbridge is used to hiding, whether it’s concealing his struggles with reading or his forbidden desire for men. Under the thumb of his controlling father, the governor of Primrose Isle, he’s sailing to the fledging colony, where he’ll surrender to a respectable marriage for his family’s financial gain. Then pirates strike and he’s kidnapped for ransom by the Sea Hawk, a legendary villain of the New World.Bitter and jaded, Hawk harbors futile dreams of leaving the sea for a quiet life, but men like him don’t deserve peace. He has a score to settle with Nathaniel’s father—the very man whose treachery forced him into piracy—and he’s sure Nathaniel is just as contemptible.Yet as days pass in close quarters, Nathaniel’s feisty spirit and alluring innocence beguile and bewitch. Although Hawk knows he must keep his distance, the desire to teach Nathaniel the pleasure men can share grows uncontrollable. It’s not as though Hawk would ever feel anything for him besides lust…Nathaniel realizes the fearsome Sea Hawk’s reputation is largely invented, and he sees the lonely man beneath the myth, willingly surrendering to his captor body and soul. As a pirate’s prisoner, he is finally free to be his true self. The crew has been promised the ransom Nathaniel will bring, yet as danger mounts and the time nears to give him up, Hawk’s biggest battle could be with his own heart.
I honestly grabbed the novel because a reviewer whose opinion I trust mentioned all these small things that I love in a romance novel - slow burn, age difference, enemies to lovers ... it was all there, but there was something missing for me to fall head over heels in love with the story.
It simply wasn't slow burn enough for me to actually classify it as such. For me to classify a story a slow burn, the growing attraction and feelings need time to, you know, grow and even happen. But yeah, one might say that it was kind of slow burn-y ... I just wanted the relationship to take longer to progress and even happen in the first place.
I didn't get dragged into the novel like I wished to. Might totally be on me, not on the book, because I did read it after a loooooong week at work and I was rather tired already.
I didn't really relate to either of the heroes and while I quite liked the way Andrews made the characters come together, I actually grew tired of the sex scenes and wished that there had been one or two less. On the upside, I really liked the epilogue as it showed both Nathaniel and Hawk in a setting they both had dreamed about.
But I cannot decide whether I like or dislike the fact that neither of the heroes even thought of their big age difference. I usually get really sick of the characters who keep bringing the age difference up again and again, but for the first time, I kind of missed the part where the characters even think of their age difference.
All in all, I don't regret reading it, but I do regret that I didn't love it as much as I hoped to.
It simply wasn't slow burn enough for me to actually classify it as such. For me to classify a story a slow burn, the growing attraction and feelings need time to, you know, grow and even happen. But yeah, one might say that it was kind of slow burn-y ... I just wanted the relationship to take longer to progress and even happen in the first place.
I didn't get dragged into the novel like I wished to. Might totally be on me, not on the book, because I did read it after a loooooong week at work and I was rather tired already.
I didn't really relate to either of the heroes and while I quite liked the way Andrews made the characters come together, I actually grew tired of the sex scenes and wished that there had been one or two less. On the upside, I really liked the epilogue as it showed both Nathaniel and Hawk in a setting they both had dreamed about.
But I cannot decide whether I like or dislike the fact that neither of the heroes even thought of their big age difference. I usually get really sick of the characters who keep bringing the age difference up again and again, but for the first time, I kind of missed the part where the characters even think of their age difference.
All in all, I don't regret reading it, but I do regret that I didn't love it as much as I hoped to.
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