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Taste Test: Walk the Plank
Arr! Pirates abound in the Walk the Plank Taste Test. From Boarding Action by Angela Benedetti, where a prank pirate attack on a friend's yacht goes horribly wrong for Cam, at least until he gets matey with his high school crush Markus.
In Cannons and Honor, by P.D. Singer, Captain John Bull rules the seas, and he rules young Leigh Westman, who offers himself as a captive to save his sister's honor.
Finally, in Mara Ismine's Life on the Ocean Wave, ninja ballet pirates flourish after a successful raid, when Floats-like-a-butterfly shows Hits-like-a-falling mountain all about the pleasures of booty. See what pirates get up to below decks in Walk the Plank!
In Cannons and Honor, by P.D. Singer, Captain John Bull rules the seas, and he rules young Leigh Westman, who offers himself as a captive to save his sister's honor.
Finally, in Mara Ismine's Life on the Ocean Wave, ninja ballet pirates flourish after a successful raid, when Floats-like-a-butterfly shows Hits-like-a-falling mountain all about the pleasures of booty. See what pirates get up to below decks in Walk the Plank!
43 pages, ebook
First published January 1, 2009
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November 3, 2018
Boarding Action, by Angela Benedetti - 2.5 stars
Cannons and Honor, by P.D. Singer -3.5 stars
Life on the Ocean Wave, by Mara Ismine - 3 stars
Cannons and Honor, by P.D. Singer -3.5 stars
Life on the Ocean Wave, by Mara Ismine - 3 stars
March 20, 2011
2.5 stars
This is a light snack before bedtime that is not all that fulfilling but possibly satisfies a craving for a short period. In each of the stories there was at least one character that I did not warm up to. Some were simply not likable, others were caricatures and others were just plain bizarre. The stories lacked depth or were glossy and shiny with no real value.
The first story "Boarding Action" glossed over accidental and intentional violence in an unrealistic way with a character that was just not likable. The premise that four college age boys would think it funny to dress up like pirates and pretend to board a friend’s yacht could have really taken off. Instead, the plot thickens and thins with fake and real pirates until there is nothing left to hold onto. Cam and Markus fall all over each other and are caught in a rather compromising position but the dialog given to Marcus does not make him likable. It is probably very realistic, but it did not make him a sympathetic or intriguing character.
The second story "Cannons and Honor" attempts to go back to the days of real pirates but uses such a unique slant it is hard to get into it. Captain “John Bull,” so named not for his English ways and heritage but more for his endowments, captures the ship our hero is traveling on. To save his sister's honor, Leigh offers himself in her place to the Captain. Soon the Captain has Leigh all to himself in his cabin where he does nothing but offer to play chess. He informs Leigh he plans to do nothing except ask him to “scream a bit so that my crew thinks I am ravishing you” Very Tom Sawyer in his approach to getting his conquests to then take advantage of the situation of being ruined, to actually ask, nay, beg to be ruined instead.
The third story "Life on the Ocean Wave" might make sense if it had several more chapters wrapped around this glimpse into a world of ballet pirate ninjas. I would need more both before and after the part we get to read to put it into any kind of understandable perspective. I did not get it at all. Ballet pirate ninja’s? Huh?
With names like Floats-like-a-butterfly and Hits-like-a-falling-mountain as well as Sniff and Captain Lethal-elegance, it is very difficult to grab onto these characters and make them real. Sniff is a real prankster and Captain Lethal-elegance is anything but in control of this group. All the other BPN (now there is an acronym I never thought I would use) spend their time having very hot and pounding sex, at least until they find they have only a hard bench to sit on for dinner. Then they spend their time squirming in discomfort. If this was expanded to better explain the whole BPN angle, Sniff and the Captain really could have held my attention but being dropped into this story where we were makes that impossible
This is a light snack before bedtime that is not all that fulfilling but possibly satisfies a craving for a short period. In each of the stories there was at least one character that I did not warm up to. Some were simply not likable, others were caricatures and others were just plain bizarre. The stories lacked depth or were glossy and shiny with no real value.
The first story "Boarding Action" glossed over accidental and intentional violence in an unrealistic way with a character that was just not likable. The premise that four college age boys would think it funny to dress up like pirates and pretend to board a friend’s yacht could have really taken off. Instead, the plot thickens and thins with fake and real pirates until there is nothing left to hold onto. Cam and Markus fall all over each other and are caught in a rather compromising position but the dialog given to Marcus does not make him likable. It is probably very realistic, but it did not make him a sympathetic or intriguing character.
The second story "Cannons and Honor" attempts to go back to the days of real pirates but uses such a unique slant it is hard to get into it. Captain “John Bull,” so named not for his English ways and heritage but more for his endowments, captures the ship our hero is traveling on. To save his sister's honor, Leigh offers himself in her place to the Captain. Soon the Captain has Leigh all to himself in his cabin where he does nothing but offer to play chess. He informs Leigh he plans to do nothing except ask him to “scream a bit so that my crew thinks I am ravishing you” Very Tom Sawyer in his approach to getting his conquests to then take advantage of the situation of being ruined, to actually ask, nay, beg to be ruined instead.
The third story "Life on the Ocean Wave" might make sense if it had several more chapters wrapped around this glimpse into a world of ballet pirate ninjas. I would need more both before and after the part we get to read to put it into any kind of understandable perspective. I did not get it at all. Ballet pirate ninja’s? Huh?
With names like Floats-like-a-butterfly and Hits-like-a-falling-mountain as well as Sniff and Captain Lethal-elegance, it is very difficult to grab onto these characters and make them real. Sniff is a real prankster and Captain Lethal-elegance is anything but in control of this group. All the other BPN (now there is an acronym I never thought I would use) spend their time having very hot and pounding sex, at least until they find they have only a hard bench to sit on for dinner. Then they spend their time squirming in discomfort. If this was expanded to better explain the whole BPN angle, Sniff and the Captain really could have held my attention but being dropped into this story where we were makes that impossible
April 13, 2010
Reviewing two out of three:
Boarding Action by Angela Benedetti is a contemporary story where the pirates are the bad guys, although Markus is understandably unhappy at the start. There is a certain car-crash inevitability to the beginning of the story when Cam's friends have this great idea for a joke.
Cannons and Honor by P.D. Singer is a more traditional swashbuckling tale set in the days of sail. Leigh Westman meets up with Captain John Bull under circumstances that will ruin his reputation and change his life forever. But will Leigh really regret that?
I enjoyed both of these very different stories about pirates.
I'm not commenting on or rating my story. I'll just say crackfic! and leave it at that.
Boarding Action by Angela Benedetti is a contemporary story where the pirates are the bad guys, although Markus is understandably unhappy at the start. There is a certain car-crash inevitability to the beginning of the story when Cam's friends have this great idea for a joke.
Cannons and Honor by P.D. Singer is a more traditional swashbuckling tale set in the days of sail. Leigh Westman meets up with Captain John Bull under circumstances that will ruin his reputation and change his life forever. But will Leigh really regret that?
I enjoyed both of these very different stories about pirates.
I'm not commenting on or rating my story. I'll just say crackfic! and leave it at that.
January 12, 2011
Boarding Action by Angela Benedetti: 2.5 stars
Life on the Ocean Wave by Mara Ismine: 2 stars (no love, no happy end)
Cannons and Honor by P.D. Singer: 2 stars (no love, no happy end)
Life on the Ocean Wave by Mara Ismine: 2 stars (no love, no happy end)
Cannons and Honor by P.D. Singer: 2 stars (no love, no happy end)
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