The Ghost Ship: An Epic Historical Novel from the Number One Bestselling Author (The Joubert Family Chronicles)

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I’m quite certain that this is part of the story before this book, that leads to what happens in this one; however, this can absolutely be read as a standalone. Privileged to have been granted the gift of reading this 1600 saga of survival as a female with skills and knowledge to oversee a ship in treacherous times. It shows another bad side to slaves the taboo side that nobody talks about the Italy, France, Dutch white slaves torched viable filth and urinal shit and blood disgusting side.

Louise’s companion in her endeavours is Gilles Barenton who has his own reasons for wanting to escape his past. Louise is fleeing a miscarriage of justice; her lover, Gilles Barenton, is at risk of being exposed - she is forced to masquerade as her brother. Set back in the early 1600’s, it ventures through Paris, Amsterdam and across to the Canary Islands.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. She is keen to be independent and in fact ends up captaining a vessel that hunts pirates and frees the sailors they have enslaved. It is the perfect way to be introduced to the characters in a way that makes you want to read the first two as I discovered they seem t b following one families chronology. To begin, I want to thank NetGlley for the ARC of this book, not to be insanely excited but it’s my very first one!

There is still a flavor of that, but I appreciated a new setting and some distance from those events. Unfortunately, because I went into this book with the previous ones in mind, approach the book with the right expectations and suspend disbelief. Their relationship is modern and refreshing and everything it should be for a female captain in the 1600's looking to change the rules.When she meets Gilles, a wine merchant's apprentice, she realizes she can be more than she ever thought possible. This is a novel that is both thrilling and sensitive, romantic and brutal – one that you can really get your teeth into. For months it has hunted pirates to liberate those enslaved during the course of their merciless raids, manned by a courageous crew of mariners from Italy and France, Holland and the Canary Islands. The writing was so well executed: rather short sentences, nothing florid, but they all carried out all emotions and intentions.

I am desperate to discover how Louise’s story ends, a story of love and danger, a life haunted by family history and murderous acts. While a lot of this information is necessary to understand what the world looked like at the time, and to provide information about the ships that are such a central part of the story, it at times messed with the flow of the story. I didn't realize this was the third book in a series until after I'd bought it, but having read it that wasn't a problem. I did greatly enjoy the romance, although I found it overly restrained, much like the rest of the story. She was determined to become not a pirate herself, but the scourge of pirates – a ‘she-captain’, the huntress and hellion of the high seas.

The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network. Af en toe moest ik toch goed nadenken hoe het weer zat, waardoor ik het boek net niet in een ruk kon uitlezen. The 3rd tome of the Burning Chamber series is coming out this month and I am so thankful I have been given a galley!

Then Louise's story is broken up by another (which makes more sense once they meet as adults but as separate childhood backstories they seem very distant at first. Thank you to the author, Minotaur Books, and NetGalley for a copy of this long but extensive look into former times and adventure. It starts focused on our main character Louise's grandmother and only really gets to Louise's part of the tale by 15-20% of the way through. Gripping, thrilling, a spectacular work of scholarly reimagining, The Ghost Ship is a beautiful book about two women, about love, courage, suffering, and a world in which everything was on a knife edge.

This one focuses on Louise Reydon-Joubert, granddaughter of Minou Joubert (starring in the first 2 books) and daughter of Marta who got killed in City of Tears. I cannot say to much or it spoil the book, but once again show Roman Catholic Church in very bad light.