Blood and Treasure

by Jennifer Bray-Weber

[Angie]

Blood and Treasure is really fun! It's certainly not the best Historical Romance I've ever read, but I had a good time reading it. Especially since it reminded me a lot of the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie! Elizabeth Lianna winds up with a mysterious pirate medallion that Captain Barbossa Zane and his crew are after. Meanwhile, Commodore Norrington Bennington is after the medallion and the captain, since he's never been able to catch him because the Black Pearl Rissa is the fastest ship in the Caribbean. And all of this goes down in Port Royal and Tortuga! Fun times ahoy!

Okay, so other than that eerily similar set up, Blood and Treasure does diverge from the movie plot, thankfully. Of course, at its center it is a romance, but I enjoyed the medallion plot and the cat fights much more! Obviously, Captain Zane kidnaps Lianna since she has the medallion, but there's attraction so they fall in love and save the world together. That's all well and good, except that I didn't feel the romance. It was a lot of telling rather than showing. But I loved all of the tension between Lianna and Sadie, whom is a woman from Zane's past who is also trying to get the medallion from him by using her feminine wiles! There is plenty of fighting, both verbal and physical between those two!

Blood and Treasure really wasn't anything special. It's kind of cheesy, but it's so fun! I mean, it's about pirates and cursed treasure, so how can it not?! There's an interesting twist at the end, but it's one of those twists, where it's actually stated earlier in the story but no one takes it seriously until some proof shows up. I quite liked that. And that ending? SOOO BAD! Really, it's so cheesy and awful but I loved it!

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