#it's pirates

more pirates! I finished the fic and this was gonna be chapter art for chapter 10 that I didn't end up using, so now you get it as a neat little bonus :D

Namesake by Adrienne Young. Rating: 4.25 Stars.

Read from March 20th to 23rd.

We finally got the conclusion to the Fable duology. Praise be to whichever book god is responsible for that. I read book one while I was quarantined and getting over covid last spring so Fable and her crew will always have a special place in my heart. And book two took a very different journey than book one.

I will always love the crew of the Marigold and Fable. They are everything I have always wanted in a found family. Please, for the love of god, let me onto your ship and into your crew. My love especially grew for Willa when she came out and basically dragged Fable and her whole family for being the source of everyone’s problems. But there was a character appearance that I wasn’t expecting. We saw this person briefly in book one and then they came back and made me feel completely different about them now. That’s growth. There was also growth for a lot of the grown up characters in this novel which I wasn’t expecting. The settings and the time spent on these ships definitely gives off pirate vibes and I’m living for it. With the weather starting to warm up now, it’s the perfect time to read this book.

There are three main flaws with this one for me. The first one is that a lot of the tight places Fable manages to find her way into were easily avoidable and the second is that she gets a lot of help getting out of them. That doesn’t mean Fable brings nothing to the table, but god knows where she’d be if she didn’t get a helping hand here or there. The third problem for me is something I think is just a me thing and not necessarily a book thing. I really enjoy West as a character because he’s a lot more morally grey or even just dark than the rest of the crew. Because he’s the helmsman of the Marigold and it’s his damn job. But my problem is the way Fable views that side of West. She spent 4 years on Jeval and she’s acting like she hasn’t done some messed up stuff in that time frame. You don’t get off that island without being underhanded at some point. I think they both toe that line and I don’t like that she views that as a negative character trait for him.