Sunday, May 31, 2015

Blackheart's Legacy by Sally Copus (Review)

I received a copy of this in exchange for an honest review. I'm currently 44% through. The main character, Jon, is a young boy who traveled back in time with his grandmother. They were looking to visit the signing of the Declaration of Independence but something went wrong and they ended up about a 100 years earlier. Jon gets separated from his grandmother and ends up on a pirate ship as a cabin boy.

This book is written in third person omniscient view. We know what the character knows and the person being followed changes to give different views. Mostly we follow Jon, Gramm (Jon's grandmother who is thought to be an adolescent boy), Blackheart and Shark Scar, and later Jon's grandfather, Alistair. This is an easy read and flows nicely from page to page.

I have just completed this book and, boy, what can I say? This book is an intriguing, MUST read, entertaining book. Sally Copus keeps your attention and mind hopping as you try to figure out what will happen next. Even though this book is clearly fictional fantasy, it mixes in bits of history, like the earthquake that occurs on June 7, 1692, which actually did happen.

Alistair says that he was given computer equipment after his son and daughter-in-law were killed. I was a bit confused as to who is looking for an answer and what he is supposed to figure out. Whatever that answer is that he is supposed to figure out is what got his son killed.

This is a Christian mom approved book. Although, clearly discretion is advised since the whole book is about time travel and what happens to the individuals that go back to the 1600's.

5 out of 5 stars. I already requested to review the next book in the trilogy and can not wait to see what happens. Recommended for all.



Information from the back of the book:

What could be more exciting to a computer-savvy, twenty-first century boy than suddenly finding himself aboard a pirate ship...in 1692...sailing out to sea captive? Mysteriously abandoned in time by his time-travel capsule, Jon Sinclair is kidnapped and conscripted into the crew of a rogue captain, BlackHeart. In her frantic search for Jon, his grandmother, disguised as a male galley cook, joins a rival pirate crew on the hunt for BlackHeart. As Jon endures hurricanes, sea battles, and gold-lusting pirates diving for treasure, will his final reward be to battle his loving grandmother when these pirates face off against each other? Can his grandfather, left behind in 2010, intervene to save them from pirates and impending death in the 1692 earthquake that will destroy Port Royal? 

3 comments:

  1. Thank you for your kind review, Jenny. You can be sure that I am working diligently on the third book of this series. I'm as anxious as my readers to see where Jon takes us next. Although my series is fantasy adventure with a touch of realism, I am passionate about the themes of this series. Book 3 will stretch out into future times hence, but my genre will remain fantasy and my themes will only intensify. Thank you, again!

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  2. Thank you for your kind review, Jenny. You can be sure that I am working diligently on the third book of this series. I'm as anxious as my readers to see where Jon takes us next. Although my series is fantasy adventure with a touch of realism, I am passionate about the themes of this series. Book 3 will stretch out into future times hence, but my genre will remain fantasy and my themes will only intensify. Thank you, again!

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  3. I can't wait. Thank you for the opportunity to review your first 2 books of this series.

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