"Nancy Kington, an heiress fleeing an arranged marriage, and Minerva Sharpe, a runaway plantation slave, both find unlikely salvation on the pirate ship Deliverance. Life as a pirate is difficult enough, but can the two young women escape the cruel Captain Bartholome, who has pledged to follow them over the seven seas? And will Nancy's long-lost friend, a sailor in the Royal Navy, love the pirate she has become?"

I am currently halfway through this book and I am simply unable to put it down! I love it so far and can't wait to find out what happens to Nancy and Minerva next!

I finished this book a while ago and I have finally found time to journal it. To put it simply: I loved it! I loved the adventure, suspence, and it even had a bit of romance. Great read. I would definetly recommend it. I mean, who can say they have never fantasized about being a pirate? LOL.

Welcome to the Pirates! bookring!
This is an international bookring so the order of participants is arranged according to everyone's shipping preferences. This is the FINAL order.

Participants:
1. Mamikaem (MO, US - Ship Int.)
2. KarenBC (Canada - Ship Int.)
3. Morgaine77 (Switzerland - Ship Int.)
4. WelshHelen (UK - Ship UK/Europe *Int. if need)
5. bilbi (France - Ship Europe *Int. if need)
6. veruca (TX, US - Ship US)
7. Back home to me! sunshinedreamr (CT, US)



Rules:
1. Journal the book upon receiving it so we know where it is.
2. Be honest in your journal entries, otherwise it kills the purpose of the bookring.
3. Please try not to keep the book for longer than 3 months, then send it on to the next person.
4. Email the next person on the list when you have finished the book. If the person does not respond within 2 weeks, move to the next person on the list.
5. Do not damage the book, please.
6. The most important rule ... HAVE FUN!!!!

Fun stuff!:
1. Sign book!!
2. Add postcard from where you are to return home!

RELEASE NOTES:

Sending to the first participant tomorrow, along with a little surprise for each of you :)

I hope you all enjoy the book!!

Received this in today's mail. Thank you, sunshinedreamr, for the adorable handmade gift!! (I won't spoil it for the others!) My daughters loved it too and thought it would be great to make some for their friends. Back to the book, this looks really good. I have a few book rings in front of it, but will get to it as soon as possible. Thanks!

UPDATE: 03/15/06 - finally getting to this one after long last. My apologies for being so slow! I started it last night and got caught up in it right away.

Wow, I loved this book! I've always been fascinated with pirates. This book certainly contained lots of action and adventure.

Thanks, sunshinedreamr, for sharing this, and especially for the 3-month time allowance. Between going overseas and working 70+ work weeks, my reading time was drastically challenged! I probably could have finished this in a day or two if I would have had the time.

Mailed to KarenBC on 04/12/06.

Thanks sunshinedremr for the gift! I was away from home for a week, and it made my day to open up the mail box last night and find this book waiting for me. I've read one other book by Celia Rees, she's quickly becoming one of my favorite authors. I'm already part way through the book, so will be contacting Morgaine77 for a mailing address to keep the ray moving along.

...couldn't put the book down...no housework was done, no laundry or ironing, no weeding the strawberry beds...but it WAS an excellant story! Will be sending it off to Morgaine77 this week.

The book arrived safely in Switzerland! Thanks for sending KarenBC and thanks for sharing and the cute surprise, sunshinedreamr! I have an aweful lot of Bookrings here with me at the moment, so the Pirates have to wait a bit...

Yo Ho, Yo Ho a pirates life for me... and a bottle of rum! ;-)

What an awesome book! I love Celia Rees' way of writing, it's very lively, it makes you believe you're in the middle of the story, standing aboard the ship! Very well researched, too!
I would have loved to read more about William and how it ended with him... But she left it to the imagination... Oh well...

I read this book at a great time, more pirates coming to the movies, soon! Arrrgh! (the thought alone makes me drooling all over Orlando... wasn't his character at "Pirates of the Carribean" called William, too? Yummy...)

Anyways, I already got the next readers' address and this book will set sail very soon!

RELEASE NOTES:

The Pirates have set sail towards the UK!

Arrived safely over the weekend. Thank you Morgaine77. Thank goodness for the 3 months reading time (though I won't take that long) as I have 4 ring books ahead of this one - oops!

What a brilliant book! I love Celia Rees' writing style and the way she brings characters, places and situations to life. I'd never heard of Maroons before but a couple of days after reading about them in this book, a TV programme on athlete Colin Jackson mentioned that he's descended from Maroons!

This may be a book for teens but there's more than enough in it for adults, too. I'm keeping an eye out now for more Celia Rees books, having read and thoroughly enjoyed Witch Child as well.

Thank you so much for sharing, sunshinedreamr, for the little present and for allowing 3 months reading-time :-) I have bilbi's address and will post in on in the next few days.

Will definitely be posted to bilbi 29/09/06.

Received today ! I was wondering what to read next and so it will be Pirates !
Thanks for the bookmark.

Three years ago, French pirates invaded the forum...

Thanks for sharing.

A great pirate story ! I also like the slave-traders' part of the book.
I'm glad that you shared this book. Let it cross the ocean again. \o/

Pirates! sailed home to me yesterday! Thank you all so much for participating, this was my very first comlpleted bookring and I can't tell you all how thrilled I was to see it in my mailbox! I'm so glad you all enjoyed the book and had such great things to say about it :) Thanks again for participating and making my first bookring an awesome one!! :D