Ashe Library Winter Reading Challenge discussion

Red Rover is an outdoor game played primarily by children on playgrounds. Røver is a Norwegian word for "pirate," so perhaps the early British were showing bravery by daring the Viking raiders to "come over". The 1829 book titled The Red Rover by James Fenimore Cooper describes the exploits of a pirate called "Red Rover." For this task, read a book with a main character who is a pirate or privateer. These lists might help: Pirates!, Historical Pirate Romance Books. The pirates can be modern-day seafaring pirates as well. Example: Terror on the Seas True Tales of Modern-Day Pirates.
Required: If not obvious from the GRs description, explain how your book choice fits the task when you post.

427 pages. Captain Blood was first published in 1922. I enjoyed the writing and the story of Blood's adventures.

Caine, an marquess of something or other is desperate to get revenge on the terrible Pirate Pagan for the death of his younger brother. While hunting him down, he encounters the Lady Jade. She politely interrupts his hunt (regular nights at a seedy bar pretending to be the pirate Pagan) to ask him if he would be so kind as to kill her.

Naturally she then leads him on what is often referred to in romance, historical romance, as a "merry chase".

Pirate romance can be very very predictable but this one is not. Even I thought I had it figured out when there kept being these hints that no, that isn't the story.

It's one of my favorite pirate romance novels, although I also enjoy the ones where the heroine cross dresses as the cabin boy, thus inciting the hero to question himself.

375 pages