Wayward Reviews

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Two women. One mansion. A secret that refuses to stay buried.
When immortality and obsession collide in Charleston’s shadowy heart, the cost of truth might be blood.

Book Synopsis

The pirates of Charleston’s Golden Age aren’t as dead as you might think.

In her centuries-long life, Kulika Yadav has chalked up more than her fair share of regrets. Deserting the crew of former pirate king Bartholomew Roberts is not one of them. She vowed she would never return to his Charleston mansion, knowing that doing so would mean captivity or death. Now, two hundred years after she left, she has no other her new master is dying, and the person who holds the key to his cure has disappeared on Bartholomew’s turf.

But Kulika isn’t the only woman on a mission in South Carolina. Patience Quick has been searching for her best friend for six months now, along with enough other missing people to fill a whole deck of cards. She’s willing to do just about anything to find her friend, even if it means following a midnight lead to a colonial-era mansion, where a never-ending pool party is about to turn sinister.

As Bartholomew’s great revelation approaches, his mansion is a powder keg of untrained vampires, and what little control he holds over them is beginning to disintegrate. While Kulika knowingly confronts the man who gave her immortality, Quick is left scrambling to understand the nature of the creatures whose nest she has unwittingly disturbed.

When the two women’s paths cross, blood will fly.

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Review

* Non-Spoiler Review*

I received an advance copy for my honest review.

I have been a fan of Jaffrey’s work for a few years now, and the Seeker series is one of my favourites of hers. So to be able to step back into the universe I had been enjoying so much was a pleasure. We follow Kulika Yadav, who is on a mission to help save her Baron from potential doom, but to do that, she must step back into her old life that she sacrificed so much to escape.

The writing style of Jaffrey’s is one that I enjoy; I always find myself quickly immersed in the world she creates as the story unfolds. I would recommend this book to those who are seeking (you see what I did there) an action-packed sapphic adventure with pirates and vampires.

The only reason I didn’t give it five stars is that I wasn’t that interested in Kulika Yadav, a personal preference, as I know her character would appeal to many. The story has a good pace, plenty of entertaining and questionable supporting characters and an unexpected plot twist.

Highly recommend.

Spice Rating: 2/6 – See my rating system here

Book Rating: 4/5