The writing was not my cup of tea.

I thought this was a really fun book. A lot of sword fighting, and treasure seeking. I really thought it was great that the main character would not kill anyone even though she was a pirate. However at the end of the book, Art Blastside is about to be hanged when Felix, the guy she loves, jumps up on the gallows, and stops the hanging with a magnificent speech, and Art, or Piratica as she is called by all her many fans, is spared! Felix uses the excuse that Piratica never hurt anyone, she may ha...

I was really excited when this book came out. I fully expected to totally love it - Lee is one of my favorite authors, so.. Lee and pirates? How could it go wrong?I'm not quite sure, but somehow it does.Set in a 'slightly parallel world' in 1802 (which basically means that place names are spelled wrong: the river Thamis flows through Lundun, for example), 'Piratica' gives us a young woman named Artemisia, who, while studying deportment at her girls' school, falls and hits her head. After this bl...

Bloody Jack meets Pirates of the Caribbean! This was not my favorite pirate story though it was entertaining and enjoyable. I doubt I'll continue the series as I much preferred Bloody Jack. Well written and with likeable characters, I recommend this for all pirate fans.

What is cooler than a non-violent,terribly cunning, utterly devious, sixteen-year-old Pirate Queen? And who in their right mind wouldn't want to read about her? This book rocks. If I were flying a flag, it would totally be a pink skull-and-crossbones (pink for a girl).

I picked up this book for two reasons: 1) I've been meaning to read something by Tannith Lee 2) I'm addicted to the Bloody Jack series and fear it's drawing to a close.At first I was dismayed.. she's nothing like Jacky. No fun, no silliness, all seriousness. But it was probably a good thing, really, as the comaparisons in my mind stopped pretty early on. I'm not much of a plot discusser so I'll say this: The begining was a bit slow but... maybe lots of books are and I should just quit being crit...

I totally loved this book! It's one of my favorites! It's one of those adventure/romance books! Just my kind of book!!!!!!!!!!!!

At the time that I read this, it was one of my favourite books. I loved the idea of a young girl rebelling against the house for charming young ladies and running off to form a crew of "pirates" aboard an old coffee trade ship. This is a hilarious story that was a good second place after watching Pirates of the Caribbean.

Just not for me. I thought it was YA and checked it from the library, but it's geared more towards ten year olds. The pirates are silly and hang out in a coffee house and drink coffee rather than rum. Kinda strange. But if I was ten, I would probably love it I'm not ten though and not in the mood for coffee drinking pirates. I didn't finish.

Storytelling is for fun. That's not what they tell you in English Lit 301. There you endure blither about 'mirroring the human condition', or capturing real life in beige dialogue on dull days, else grandiose calls to craft words into entire worlds. All very nice, if that's what you like. And yet the stone truth remains, unmoved: storytelling is for fun."Piratica" is told for fun; to make the reader giggle, make the teller laugh. A serious young schoolgirl is hit on the head, recalls she is a pi...

This review and others posted over at my blog. Tanith has created a semi-Victorian (Regency? I don’t know time periods, sorry!) world in the year of Seventeen-Twelvety (how awesome is that?!) which somewhat resembles the actual year of 1802. This world primarily differs from our own in how the countries are laid out and there’s a handy map in the front that I actually referenced for once. But because this is Tanith and I am a flappy-handed fangirl for everything she’s written (ugh except Grey...

I really really enjoyed this book. This is a fun-filled, action adventure story about a young girl who is very strong spirited; enough so that she becomes Capt. of a pirate crew (sort of) and becomes the most notorious and well loved Pirate Queens! If you're looking for a fun book about pirates, then look no further!

This is the first of Tanith Lee's books I have read and it proved to be most enjoyable. She has a poetic style that may not be easily read by some young readers, but those who can adapt to her style will enjoy a novel with a memorable plot and characters.

Lately it seems half the books I read were written by fourth graders. I love L.A.Meyer's Bloody Jack series; I was hoping Piratica would be similar. But there is absolutely nothing well-done about this book, from the writing to the plot to the characters, everything is mediocre.The writing is awful. Commas are apparently unnecessary. Sometimes I had to read a sentence three or four times because it was gobbledy-gook until I filled in my own commas. Take this, for example: "Out of which the bald

Definitley awe-inspiring

Hilarious! I love the idea of the Pirate Coffee ship!

this book was really cute. it started out a bit slow, but sped up fairly quickly. i thought the main character was a bit crazy at first, but she seemed to become more real as i read more. the only part i didn't like was the continuing references to a certain play. every action in the book was compared to this play, which after a while made me want to shake the next person to make the comparison. however, in the end, the references had a reason for being in the book. overall, it was a good read (...

I have probably read this book at least a half dozen times and every time I start out by asking myself why I'm reading it; I hate the writing style. But everytime I get past the first few chapters and am so enthralled with the plot and the humour that I forget about it and enjoy the book to no end. Tanith Lee is a master at wit and humour (despite the writing style that can be grating at times). This book is highly enjoyable and I highly recommend it. Art, at the age of sixteen, is emprisoned in...

I found this slow going at first, though it really picked up in the second half, once the heroine encounters her nemesis and really sets off on her quest. If the whole book had been as good as the second half, I'd have easily given it four stars. Something that bothered me a tad is the way the book tries to deal with the ethics of piracy. The book is very careful to make the heroine and her crew nice pirates - they never actually kill anyone, and somehow they only seem to rob unpleasant people w...

A philosophical and spiritual enlightenment, a joy to read simple but deep meaning poetry.Beautiful illustrations that draw you in at another level.