Status Updates From Capitana (Capitana #1)

“Truly, Ximena didn’t have enough eyes to watch all the fools trying to sabotage her.”

“Ximena had never been so grateful for disaster in her life.”

Though it could not be found in the tenets of the law, pride was a terrible crime, and the de León family was guilty of it twenty times over.”

“Even worse, pirates captured by the cazadores had begun invoking Gasparilla’s name just before their executions in direct defiance of the Luzan Empire. They declared it boldly, proudly, in the same breath as liberty, as if the sound of it were a threat or a prophecy or a battle cry. As if they knew something the cazadores did not.”

ngl kinda boring but im holding out that it will get better