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The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
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Trisha
Mar 02, 2024 rated it liked it
This was a fun pirate story - with a retired infamous female pirate pulled out of retirement to chase down a kidnapped young girl. But things aren't always as they seem. I liked Amina and her crew. I especially love the history with her first mate, her poisoner and her navigator. Their banter was really cute.

But I'm sad I didn't just love love love this like so many others. It felt long, and like it took 2 or 3 long turns around areas that I didn't need in the story. It lost me around halfway a
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Tien
Aug 12, 2023 rated it it was ok  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: fantasy
★★½

I really really wanted to love this one but for one reason or another, I just was not engaged. It took me over a month to read with only a few chapters per session which I could put down and pick up with not much angst.

There were pirates!
The protagonist is a female pirate!
She is a POC female pirate!

I had such hopes but I just didn't feel it and it made me so so sad. Not sure whether it was just because I wasn't in the right mood when I started reading this or the small prints (I really do
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Sindryc
Mar 06, 2024 rated it really liked it
4.5*
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Dec 21, 2022 marked it as to-read
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