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Raven: the Pirate Princess (Collected Editions) #5
Princeless: Raven the Pirate Princess Book 5: Get Lost Together
Six weeks have passed since the attack on the ship and the loss of Sunshine. Now everyone is trying to get back to normal, including Ximena, who has been putting off confessing her feelings for the love of her life. Now she's finally ready to try and make it work, but is this relationship cursed?
And what did happen to Sunshine? While the crew is sure she's dead, she has found a new life on a mysterious island. While everything seems perfect, is there something terrifying lurking beneath the surface?
And what did happen to Sunshine? While the crew is sure she's dead, she has found a new life on a mysterious island. While everything seems perfect, is there something terrifying lurking beneath the surface?
128 pages, Paperback
First published June 19, 2018
About the author
Jeremy Whitley
413 books339 followersJeremy Whitley is the son of two teachers and the husband of a third.
Born in La Mesa, CA, Jeremy went to high school in Lenoir, NC and college at The University of North Carolina. He graduated with a Bachelors in English, and a minor in Creative Writing.
Jeremy lives in Durham, North Carolina with his wife Alicia and his two daughters Zuri and Amara.
Jeremy is the writer/creator of the comic series Princeless, Raven the Pirate Princess, School for Extraterrestrial Girls, and The Dog Knight. He is also the writer of the acclaimed Marvel series "The Unstoppable Wasp". His other works include extensive work for Marvel, the "Sea of Thieves" comics, and over sixty issues of My Little Pony comics.
Awards and Nominations:
3 time Glyph Winner
5 time Glyph Nominee
2 time Eisner Nominee
2 time Cyblis Nominee
2 time Bloomer Nominee
1 time Most Likely to Succeed Winner
Born in La Mesa, CA, Jeremy went to high school in Lenoir, NC and college at The University of North Carolina. He graduated with a Bachelors in English, and a minor in Creative Writing.
Jeremy lives in Durham, North Carolina with his wife Alicia and his two daughters Zuri and Amara.
Jeremy is the writer/creator of the comic series Princeless, Raven the Pirate Princess, School for Extraterrestrial Girls, and The Dog Knight. He is also the writer of the acclaimed Marvel series "The Unstoppable Wasp". His other works include extensive work for Marvel, the "Sea of Thieves" comics, and over sixty issues of My Little Pony comics.
Awards and Nominations:
3 time Glyph Winner
5 time Glyph Nominee
2 time Eisner Nominee
2 time Cyblis Nominee
2 time Bloomer Nominee
1 time Most Likely to Succeed Winner
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September 19, 2024
The book gets so involved in everyone's relationships -- so many relationships! -- they almost forget to do anything pirate-y. Fortunately, a little scuffle with some mermaids breaks out before the last page.
This is obviously a romance title, not an action/adventure epic, and that's okay with me.
FOR REFERENCE:
Contains material originally published in single magazine form as Princeless: Raven the Pirate Princess: Year Two: Love and Revenge #5-8.
Contents: Chapter Five. The Kiss -- Chapter Six. The Heart of the Sea -- Chapter Seven. The Dreaded Pairing Off -- Chapter Eight. The Storm
This is obviously a romance title, not an action/adventure epic, and that's okay with me.
FOR REFERENCE:
Contains material originally published in single magazine form as Princeless: Raven the Pirate Princess: Year Two: Love and Revenge #5-8.
Contents: Chapter Five. The Kiss -- Chapter Six. The Heart of the Sea -- Chapter Seven. The Dreaded Pairing Off -- Chapter Eight. The Storm
March 14, 2019
I love this series so much and I’m so enjoying the every day life of the pirates but I wasn’t the biggest fan of Sunshine’s narrative in this one. That being said, I’m still trash for this series and never want it to end.
July 22, 2018
At first I was kind of worried I wouldn't like this volume as much because of the split story and Sunshine being off doing her own thing, but I actually think the whole thing was handled really well and turned out to be another great volume. It's nice to have a few new characters and also get some spotlights on a few members of the crew that are generally more in the background. Also I really like the art in this volume, definitely much better than the last one. All in all this is just a really fun series and who doesn't love a bunch of queer lady pirates being awesome!
Also, #same:
Also, #same:
June 30, 2018
While I enjoy the microcosm of ship life, I'd love to see them back in battle against Crow and Magpie! Growing their Pirate Army! Reclaiming what's Raven's!
August 10, 2018
Agreed, Nina--SO MUCH ROMANCE. It felt a little over the top and ridiculous to me. Katie, though, ha! It's true, EVERYONE has a crush on Katie!
It's not that I dislike the romance entirely, but I'm not really invested in any of it. Since there are so many characters it's hard for me to even remember who half the people are (Quinn and Zoe, uhhhhh???), and since there are like, four couples in this volume it just feels like too much all at one time, when what I think they should be focusing on is this whole pirating thing! Remember that, girls?
I dunno. I'm feeling like this series has majorly lost it's focus, which is exactly what I feel like happened with Princeless. I keep reading them hoping they'll turn it around, but so far...
It's not that I dislike the romance entirely, but I'm not really invested in any of it. Since there are so many characters it's hard for me to even remember who half the people are (Quinn and Zoe, uhhhhh???), and since there are like, four couples in this volume it just feels like too much all at one time, when what I think they should be focusing on is this whole pirating thing! Remember that, girls?
I dunno. I'm feeling like this series has majorly lost it's focus, which is exactly what I feel like happened with Princeless. I keep reading them hoping they'll turn it around, but so far...
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August 13, 2018
I love the pairing off of all the characters. And watching Raven and Ximena fight was the best part, especially the line "It's not my practice boob, Raven!"... which I'm just going to leave at that, you'll have to read it yourself to see why that line might be used.
There's just so much girl power here. It used to be that Princeless was my favorite, and that this spin-off was a close second, but I think Raven has totally taken over.
There's just so much girl power here. It used to be that Princeless was my favorite, and that this spin-off was a close second, but I think Raven has totally taken over.
September 1, 2019
We find out what happens to Sunshine, and I have to say I enjoyed her story far more. It is nice to see Sunshine being something beyond a crush on Raven.
January 1, 2019
Finally... (if you've read the previous volumes, you know what I'm talking about!)
And very good. This series is really a must read.
And very good. This series is really a must read.
September 7, 2018
Good volume.
June 26, 2018
Sometimes to move forward you need to look backward, and then have your world turned upside down.
This is exactly what happens to a few members of Raven's crew. They are forced to take a look at things that many would rather avoid.
I greatly enjoyed some of the changes in the book and some of the reunions that happened in this Book.
The wind is changing, where will it blow them next?
This is exactly what happens to a few members of Raven's crew. They are forced to take a look at things that many would rather avoid.
I greatly enjoyed some of the changes in the book and some of the reunions that happened in this Book.
The wind is changing, where will it blow them next?
December 11, 2018
Really unimpressed with the direction this series is going. I enjoyed the first couple of books because I felt like it was a ship full of kick-ass women. Starting about halfway through the last one, and then pretty much all of this one, it just felt like a ship full of angst-filled preteens: "Does she like me?" "What kind of trouble can I stir up?" "If I take off my shirt everyone loves me."
Maybe, just maybe, I'll read the next one. But right now I'm feeling really disappointed by the series.
Maybe, just maybe, I'll read the next one. But right now I'm feeling really disappointed by the series.
March 9, 2019
This series is frustratingly up-and-down for me. As always, some of her dialogue is clunky, and the pacing didn't work for me. There are so many characters that the ship storyline focused solely on interpersonal drama. I'd rather see them getting back to getting revenge, but devoting time to that instead meant the Sunshine storyline was rushed. Maybe I'm asking too much from a four-issue trade. I'll stick with the series as long as I can find it at my library, though.
September 26, 2019
Feels like a filler volume, but the new world was slightly interesting, if drawn out overlong.
While the diversity is fun in this series, a lot of the times it’s hard to tell the cast apart due to the drawing style. For example, Zoe, Raven, and...the character with a D name. The drawing style also had the cast looking very angular and hard-jawed, which made sense in Katie’s case and some of the characters that were described that way.
While the diversity is fun in this series, a lot of the times it’s hard to tell the cast apart due to the drawing style. For example, Zoe, Raven, and...the character with a D name. The drawing style also had the cast looking very angular and hard-jawed, which made sense in Katie’s case and some of the characters that were described that way.
September 4, 2019
I didn't love this one as much... I'm not a fan of the constant artist changes in this series, because it throws me off and I have no idea who I'm reading about. I also feel like the characters are a lot different (personality-wise) in this volume than the others. There's a lot of neediness.
September 7, 2018
I will start with the art by Christine Hipp and Xenia Pamfil in this volume is really great and I feel like it kind of props up a volume with a it of poor drama. I love how gay everything is and the characters but there is a lot of moments that I feel like existed to say something but failed to say things as well because they are using an all female cast to tell these things. The conflict on the island is all about not wanting to be owned by this lady in her amazing lesbian paradise that in particularly in this world is freaking amazing just has me going like, IDK I've seen the world of Princless this for sure seems 10000% like the best place to live. I get that she wants to be back with her friends but like OK.
On the Raven side the drama for this romance this issue really felt just like random BS and there is this one rebuttal to Raven from Ximena that felt like it was a rant to an unrelated topic, like stuff Raven didn't even really say and that really hardly felt in character for either of them just so that they could be mad.
The increased amount of lesbians was very good. I did enjoy that a whole lot.
I'd like to add a side note here, the presentation of a book matters and the way Action Labs did it's trade here I think was really poorly done. You get a credits page between every issue, there is no covers from the issues here despite this. There is extra's between issues to show how things got made but really these might have been better all int he back instead of breaking up the story. Action Labs at least didn't include ads here which they have done before but gosh.
On the Raven side the drama for this romance this issue really felt just like random BS and there is this one rebuttal to Raven from Ximena that felt like it was a rant to an unrelated topic, like stuff Raven didn't even really say and that really hardly felt in character for either of them just so that they could be mad.
The increased amount of lesbians was very good. I did enjoy that a whole lot.
I'd like to add a side note here, the presentation of a book matters and the way Action Labs did it's trade here I think was really poorly done. You get a credits page between every issue, there is no covers from the issues here despite this. There is extra's between issues to show how things got made but really these might have been better all int he back instead of breaking up the story. Action Labs at least didn't include ads here which they have done before but gosh.
November 25, 2018
Another highly enjoyable read in the Princess: Raven series. With book 4 ending on a bit of a cliffhanger, I was really keen to see how ~everything~ panned out.
And I enjoyed this. I did. It was truly an enjoyable read in a series I love, but I was also disappointed in the way it made the romantic decision *for* Raven, Sunshine and Ximenia, a fairly focal plot point since book 1. Rather than Raven really investigating her feelings and deciding to be with Sunshine, Ximenia, neither or both, the series has quietly pitted Sunshine and Ximenia against each other, which I don't think was necessary or helpful to their characters, only to take Sunshine out of the equation, give her someone else, and make Raven's choice seemingly a done thing.
I feel like this could have really built upon the characters, their emotions, their lives, and created a love story that was beautiful because all characters involved (although Raven is at the center) stated their feelings, so the choice made in this volume felt more like an easy way out and came across as unfilfilled to me.
And I enjoyed this. I did. It was truly an enjoyable read in a series I love, but I was also disappointed in the way it made the romantic decision *for* Raven, Sunshine and Ximenia, a fairly focal plot point since book 1. Rather than Raven really investigating her feelings and deciding to be with Sunshine, Ximenia, neither or both, the series has quietly pitted Sunshine and Ximenia against each other, which I don't think was necessary or helpful to their characters, only to take Sunshine out of the equation, give her someone else, and make Raven's choice seemingly a done thing.
I feel like this could have really built upon the characters, their emotions, their lives, and created a love story that was beautiful because all characters involved (although Raven is at the center) stated their feelings, so the choice made in this volume felt more like an easy way out and came across as unfilfilled to me.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
January 15, 2024
Unknown to her shipmates, the given up for drowned pirate and half-elf named Sunshine is alive and well and attempting to fit in to her new surroundings on a magical island in the midst of the ocean surrounded by a perpetual and impenetrable storm. The downside of living in the proclaimed paradise is being ruled by a tyrannical queen with a magic trident that has populated her island with good looking women she’s saved from drowning, apparently, if you’re not enough of what she considers a real babe, she lets you drown. Talk about body shaming; she taken it to the extreme! This is where eugenics leads. Before you know what’s going on there’s a dictator telling you what to do and what you should think about it, or else.
Meanwhile back aboard the pirate ship, budding friendships are leading to what one of the crew say is “the inevitable paring off.” And captain Raven attempts at teaching her pacifist navigator some self-defense skills, are having much less success than Raven had hoped.
Meanwhile back aboard the pirate ship, budding friendships are leading to what one of the crew say is “the inevitable paring off.” And captain Raven attempts at teaching her pacifist navigator some self-defense skills, are having much less success than Raven had hoped.
July 24, 2023
This volume regressed in terms of falling back on fable-like attempts to impart an unsubtle moral message, but kept the gains in character development and relationship development from the previous volume. Now that most of the crew has had some decent development, the ensemble storytelling has paid off and as a reader I'm more invested overall. Even if some of the time those crew members are acting as mouthpieces for the author's attempts to earn ally cookies, rather than saying/doing something believably in-character. This seems to be a common issue in mass media/popular writing the past decade or so; the desire to make all characters morally upstanding and actively impart a message about how to deal with societal issues from climate change to misogyny leaves you with a bland, unsatisfying story. It's unfortunate, because a focus on characters and story first would actually realize the potential of great, diverse casts like the one in the Princeless: Raven comics.
September 17, 2018
Sunshine lives! She’s been saved or captured (she’s not sure which) by mermaids and has been added to the collection of the Queen of the Ocean, Parvati. Sunshine is not particularly happy in her new home, but finds it slightly more appealing once she meets the lovely Ananda. Up top aboard the ship, the lady pirates are also pairing off and finding friendship, and in some cases more. When Sunshine decides that Parvati is trying to manipulate her and is actually a threat to her happiness, she makes plans to escape, inviting Ananda to accompany her. A magic trident both eases and complicates their exodus from the underwater Queendom. Communication issues and relationship problems run rampant in this collection, along with some sweet moments shared between girlfriends. Different races and ethnicities, gender identification, and sexual orientations are well represented in this series.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
July 19, 2018
Well, we found out what happened to Sunshine and where she is. I'm glad she's okay. She is right though, there's something peculiar about the Queen and her collection of women. I'm glad she and Ananda were able to escape. Now, Sunshine just needs to destroy the trident. Hopefully she will.
Ugh, I guess Raven and Ximena finally got their heads out of their butts and revealed their feelings to each other. I'm still not a fan of Ximena. I still think Raven and Sunshine make better partners, but that's just me.
I wonder what's going to happen in the next volume. Will they reach their next destination? Will Raven end up reclaiming her father's fleet of pirates?
Ugh, I guess Raven and Ximena finally got their heads out of their butts and revealed their feelings to each other. I'm still not a fan of Ximena. I still think Raven and Sunshine make better partners, but that's just me.
I wonder what's going to happen in the next volume. Will they reach their next destination? Will Raven end up reclaiming her father's fleet of pirates?
January 1, 2019
In an effort to get back in Raven's good graces, Ximena asks Raven to teach her how to fight. Meanwhile, Sunshine is trying to figure out how to get back to her friends.
I'd love some forward motion and less relationship development in this story...
I'd love some forward motion and less relationship development in this story...
October 20, 2019
My Rating: 3.5/5
There was just something about this addition that just didn't do it for me as much as the other ones did. I think that the way that some characters spoke had been changed, and the different world while interesting just wasn't explored enough to capture my interest. I also thought that this instalment was spread a little thin overall the character we were trying to watch. I plan on continuing the series and I am hopeful that I will enjoy the further issues more.
Thanks for reading,
Sidny
There was just something about this addition that just didn't do it for me as much as the other ones did. I think that the way that some characters spoke had been changed, and the different world while interesting just wasn't explored enough to capture my interest. I also thought that this instalment was spread a little thin overall the character we were trying to watch. I plan on continuing the series and I am hopeful that I will enjoy the further issues more.
Thanks for reading,
Sidny
August 7, 2018
I definitely don't mind some romance between the girls, but this whole volume was romance and convenient coupling. I actually was interested in Sunshine's story, but that also became a romance. I love all the girls, but I need a teensy bit of action in my pirate stories! Also, sometimes the art felt a little incomplete, like whenever they don't have mouths. And Raven seemed much taller and more angle-y than before.
Anyway, hoping the next volume has a bit more action!
Anyway, hoping the next volume has a bit more action!
September 8, 2021
I'mma head out. I really wanted this to be something it cant be. I wanted adventure and maybe some treasure hunting but what I'm getting is a bunch of bs. These crew members spend more time making out than training. I mean after somebody goes overboard, these characters remain unseaworthy. I mean, is this for real? Like an all female crew, cant be out to sea for a day without being overcome by hormones? What a crock!
September 30, 2018
Rating: 3.5
The only draw back about this book was Sunshine's storyline in the underwater prison. It made the rest of the story feel disjointed. And brought a lot of questions as to how the Queen/cult leader got a hold of it. My favorite part by far was Quinn & Zoe's romance. I need more of them in my life forever. PRAISE BLESS THAT XIMENA & RAVEN FINALLY KISSED, I CAN SLEEP HAPPY TONIGHT.
The only draw back about this book was Sunshine's storyline in the underwater prison. It made the rest of the story feel disjointed. And brought a lot of questions as to how the Queen/cult leader got a hold of it. My favorite part by far was Quinn & Zoe's romance. I need more of them in my life forever. PRAISE BLESS THAT XIMENA & RAVEN FINALLY KISSED, I CAN SLEEP HAPPY TONIGHT.
July 18, 2018
While Sunshine's arc wasn't my fave, moments with Katie and Cid make up for it. I love them both so much. And extra bonus points for calling out Raven's abusive behavior and making her see how wrong it was.
July 28, 2018
More like 3.5. I know it was a transitional sort of story but I’m ready for more plot and wit (like the first few) and less mushy slow times. Although it is awesome to see many kinds of f/f relationships represented
October 31, 2018
I’m still really enjoying this series, even if this book took a bit of a left turn at one point. I’m sort of wondering when we’ll get back to Raven’s main quest, but this has a strong Odyssey but for women vibe to it, so I’m good.
Plus the series keeps getting gayer, which I’m here for.
Plus the series keeps getting gayer, which I’m here for.
July 19, 2018
Why did I catch up? There's no more story to read. :( I love it so.
August 29, 2018
Amazing. Awesome. Read it, read it, read it (and it's previous four volumes too!!!)
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