Off The Map

by Max Davine

By 1873, long since the Golden Age of pirates and swashbuckling adventure, the oceans, it's said, were tamed, at least that's what young French orphan girl Chanel Angeli thought when she settled down and married into a rich mining family by means of their charming, gorgeous heir Oliver Aubry. Until, that is, Oliver accepts a business proposition from his old mentor Lord Beaumont, who has begun excavating an island in the Azores Archipelago that holds many mysterious and deadly secrets. When Beaumont betrays and enslaves Oliver on the isolated piece of land, which is thought to be capitol city of Atlantis, Chanel escapes and teams up with the devil-may-care captain of the Margeaux, endeavoring to rescue her husband, but along the way she finds, within herself, uncovering many mysteries of her own...

Genres: Historical Fiction

424 pages, Paperback

First published September 7, 2014

About the author

Max Davine is an Australian author, educator, and former actor. He was born Southeast Melbourne in 1989 and in 2008 learned about screenwriting and film production on the fly in Los Angeles. From 2010 to 2012 he studied acting at the Melbourne Actor’s Lab before publishing his first novel in November of 2012. Five other novels followed before he took time off to earn a Master of Literature in 2017. In 2018 he returned to publishing with Mighty Mary before again taking time to earn a Master of Education in 2021, the same year he published Spirits of the Ice Forest. While his work is most noted for its graphic violence and emotionally wrought content, his novels often convey messages of hope and courage in the face of adversity.


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Reviews

[Lyans · Rating 4 out of 5]

I received this book in a giveaway, and I'm very thankfull!
You have a couple in love, piracy and Atlantis (in Azores, though there isn't any action in the real Azores).
I really enjoyed the book, but when I finished it I felt that was lacking something. The book was good but short!
It had good characters, very well described, but I think they needed more of their background stories, that are actually really good.
Chanel knew how to use a sabre (actually she was a performmer) but she didn't use her talents, only at the ending but briefly, and I was expecting more from her. I really love a warrior woman.
Teague was awesome, he should have had more protagonism and interaction.
I felt like Chanel was a damsel in distress meeting the characters and watching them kill themselves. Wanted more story inside the story, more to her adventure with these new characters in her life.
I really liked the book and that's why I wanted more from it.
I want to read more of the author.

[InD'tale Magazine · Rating 3 out of 5]

Despite it being almost pure telling with bits and pieces of dialogue, the reader is drawn into the story.

Read full review in the 2016 February issue of InD'tale Magazine.