Finally acheived a goal of reading the Hobbit (bought a copy 20 years ago and has been sitting on my shelf).
It has reactivated my reading bug and now I am super keen on a similar style of book but about Pirates.
I don’t want it to be any ‘softer’ than the Hobbit, however, I am okay if it is a bit more ‘aggressive/violent’.
I’ve also read a few books in Feist’s Magician series and really enjoyed them just to give you an idea of the kind of reader I can be.
Not interested in young adult or anything or particularly short books or manga style OTT books; I want to go on an adventure.
Suggestions greatly appreciated please!
TIA 🙂
by Bright_Donkey_6496
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When Michael Crichton passed away, a pirate adventure novel was found among his papers, published as _Pirate Latitudes_.
Also enjoyed Arturo Perez Reverte’s _The Nautical Chart_
The first half of the adventures of Amina Al-sirafi by s chakraborty is pretty good, the second half was harder for me to get through but all in all a fun read.
_Captain Blood_ by Rafael Sabatini is an old fashioned swashbuckler; it was made into a movie in the mid 1930s, and it was the movie that made Errol Flynn a star.
There’s a recent book by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory called _House of the Four Winds_ that’s a fantasy/ alternate history, with magic, a cross-dressing princess, and a sea witch.
The fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie was loosely and poorly based on a book by Tim Powers called _On Stranger Tides_. Yes to mermaids and the Fountain of Youth, but no Captain Jack Sparrow.
So I do not think that this is one of her better books, but *Sun’s Bride* by Gillian Bradshaw is about pirates, though pirates are the bad guys.
Read the rest of Feist 😀
There’s a pirate-ish book in there as well 😉
I did a review for a book many years ago called “pirates passage” – I can’t remember who wrote it, honestly, but I really enjoyed it.