The cover offers an instant insight into the haunting beauty that is Csillas mind in the first moments of this intense story. A pirate on her way to the hangman's noose. Will she die? Will she escape? Or will this be the beginning of her biggest adventure yet. With all of this uncertainty Csirlla has one thought that sticks out in a sea of many, no one will see me break.
As those watching and waiting for her death jeer at her she calls upon the words that had changed her life to give her strength. Although she has no power to cast these words no one knows that and they give her the strength to keep walking, to see the noose swinging and still keep walking, no matter how loud the screaming inside her mind is those around her will never see it.
Even if it means she ends up stuck in Limbo she would rather die as she is, a proud pirate rather than to keep her life only to have it wither away in a cage.
At the last moment as the noose is being put around her neck Csirlla is scanning the crowd for her sister Rhoda or her Scarlet Maidens, if it had been one of them on that wooden scaffold she would have found a way to save them, and feeling abandoned in that moment is the most painful wound she'd sustained so far.
This book has everything you could want, beautiful and dark imagery three intriguing main characters whos lives cross and intertwine in such an immersive way that you forget all of this is so that one of them will be named King or Queen of the Pirates.
Which one of them will risk it all and do what it takes to wear that crown and sit on that throne. Only time, and the trials will determine the future or lack there of for all of them.
As those watching and waiting for her death jeer at her she calls upon the words that had changed her life to give her strength. Although she has no power to cast these words no one knows that and they give her the strength to keep walking, to see the noose swinging and still keep walking, no matter how loud the screaming inside her mind is those around her will never see it.
Even if it means she ends up stuck in Limbo she would rather die as she is, a proud pirate rather than to keep her life only to have it wither away in a cage.
At the last moment as the noose is being put around her neck Csirlla is scanning the crowd for her sister Rhoda or her Scarlet Maidens, if it had been one of them on that wooden scaffold she would have found a way to save them, and feeling abandoned in that moment is the most painful wound she'd sustained so far.
This book has everything you could want, beautiful and dark imagery three intriguing main characters whos lives cross and intertwine in such an immersive way that you forget all of this is so that one of them will be named King or Queen of the Pirates.
Which one of them will risk it all and do what it takes to wear that crown and sit on that throne. Only time, and the trials will determine the future or lack there of for all of them.