She’s written love tales starring monsters and Greek gods, however with Hunt on Dark Waters, Katee Robert has written the excessive seas fantasy journey of her goals.
There’s one thing about pirates that continues to be timeless. We gravitate towards the concept of a reckless captain standing at the helm, the salty sea breeze whipping their fashionable coat, the horizon an infinite blue of risk. The world feels massive in a approach that it actually doesn’t anymore. Historical—and fantasy—pirates exist out of time and area, and the solely guidelines they observe are the ones they make up.
Obviously, actuality was a bit much less glamorous and extra rife with scurvy and poop decks, however the mythos of pirates continues to draw and seduce. It actually does with me, no less than.
It’s arduous to say when my fascination with pirates started, however I believe it was the second I boarded the Pirates of the Caribbean trip in Disneyland after I was very younger. The “briny” air wrapped round me and I sat with broad eyes by means of scene after scene of glamorized and entertaining glimpses of what a pirate’s life may be like. I used to be hooked.
Fast-forward some 30-odd years, by means of my deep obsessions with pirate nonfiction books, the Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise and the TV present “Black Sails,” to call only a few influences. When it got here time for me to circle again to my past love, fantasy novels, it was additionally a chance to combine two of my favourite issues into one grand journey.
I’ll admit that pirates gave the impression to be a little bit of a protracted shot. While pirates have been a staple in style fiction since the starting of time, they’ve type of fallen out of recognition in recent times. There’s in all probability some actually attention-grabbing the explanation why, however I like them and I’ve been on the hunt for spicy pirate romances for ages. They exist, to make sure! But there’s by no means sufficient to feed my voracious studying. One e book is by no means sufficient!
Read our starred evaluate of ‘Hunt on Dark Waters’ by Katee Robert.
Really, although, all of it boils all the way down to the undeniable fact that I’ve been chasing the excessive of Pirates of the Caribbean, each the trip and the films, since my childhood. I noticed the first film in theaters 5 occasions. I used to be hooked on the approach my coronary heart beat quicker as the music swelled and the sheer potentialities that unfolded when Jack Sparrow grinned and mentioned, “Bring me that horizon.”
I needed to recreate that feeling whereas writing—and hopefully for the reader whereas studying. That second of looking at the horizon and having no concept what it would maintain. The thrill of a battle towards a monster on the deck of your ship. The magic and thriller that comes when issues and folks aren’t fairly what they appear, however you’re seduced regardless of your self.
And, as a result of it’s fantasy, everybody is freshly bathed and there’s indoor plumbing!
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