Then Nancy's father dies shortly after the family fortune is ruined, leaving her a plantation in Jamaica. But when her father remarries, Nancy is forced to abandon her wild childhood and become a reluctant lady. Plot: Nancy Kington has always longed for adventure. The villain, Bartholome, is very creepy, but I wish we could have spent more time with him gotten to know just how creepy he was, even though the brief times we are around him, he definitely makes an impression. The secondary characters - Captain Broom, Vincent, the other crewmen - are all quite likable and interesting. She also doesn't have The Attitude, but she's definitely got a bit of a sharp side to her. She takes to life at sea as if she were born to it, and she has a way of completely masking her emotions when she's scared. She has escaped slavery and she isn't about to go back to it. She didn't have The Attitude, she faced her fears, and she stood for what was right. Even so, she doesn't whine and she learns to step up to the challenge. She craves adventure, but when she's finally faced with it, she comes to realize how terrifying it really is. Next to Minerva, Nancy is pretty average. But in the end, the money, the adventure, the companionship and the chance to see the world not as women, but as fearsome pirates, is an opportunity neither can deny.Ĭharacters: I must give Pirates! this: the female characters are very good. For Minerva, it is escape from slavery, as well as from the fearsome overseer on Nancy's family plantation. For Nancy, Deliverance is her escape from an arranged marriage with a controlling and devilish man. Not just any trading ship, Deliverance flies black flags from its mast and proclaims to all that the new ship is a pirate vessel, striking fear into the hearts of those she approaches. At the dawn of the eighteenth century, when girls stay home and sew while men sail the high seas finding adventure, danger and gold, two unusual girls, Nancy Kington and Minerva Sharpe, one a rich merchant's daughter, the other her plantation slave, set sail from Jamaica on a ship the crew renames Deliverance.
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