Vee's Reviews > A Ship of Bones & Teeth

I thought I was getting something similar to ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’, but then BOOM suddenly ‘Twilight’ is making an appearance. I was not expecting it and I don’t know if I appreciated it 🫣

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So it’s a sequel to the little mermaid, if everything went to sh1t and Prince Eric was a complete a-hole. Moral of the story, be careful what you wish for.

All the men in this book are pretty problematic. I guess it’s in keeping with the era, but they didn’t seem to stay very consistent. Especially the main MMC. Is he a brooding pr1ck, is he not ?

He also got too gushy ! He was this intimidating, smug character, which I really liked and then he turned to mush. It made zero sense to me. The problematic title also carries over to him. I can’t find the exact quote for this, but this was the gist of it.

So the main pirate crew are vampires and they need blood. So one of the men propose they drink from the FMC, the captain says no and then to show he has claimed her he brands her … like livestock. At this point she doesn’t know they drink blood, so she is asking why the captain did it and if the men would have SA’ed her if he didn’t. He explains about the blood thing, but says that some of his crew might be r4pists, but what they do in their spare time isn’t his concern. I didn’t really liked him again after this point. That response was trash.

His quote - “Some may be madmen and some might have been rapists. I don’t keep tabs on them all hours of the day and I don’t judge what they did before they joined my crew. But there are other ways of harming you, luv, and they don’t all involve things of a sexual nature”

There is a fair bit of domestic abuse and lots of mentions of SA and an attempted SA. Also, death of a 2 children at separate points of the book. Yeah this isn’t very happy at points.

I have to say I did really enjoy the beginning and the FMC was very headstrong and witty. I enjoyed seeing her personality switch depending on who she was around. It was quite a long book though, but I’m guessing that was because it was a standalone. The spice scenes were good, but also pretty long, so that might have been a contributing factor.

I’m sorry WTF was the death that occurred at 86%, you have to be kidding me with that. Why did they have to die ? There was honestly no need. They were such a lovable character. The main characters then proceed to get revenge 2 seconds later, before having mermaid sex. The whole situation was weird, I don’t know how to explain it. Either way, probably wasn’t the time.

The book could have ended after the battle scene, but then another chapter happened and then another. It ends with her going back home and finding out that her pet shark had been waiting for her for 10 years. I think that was meant to be an ‘ahhhhh’ moment, but that just made me super depressed.

I’m giving it 3 stars because I liked the first half of the book and despite skimming parts, I did end up finishing it. I would have been happy with just a pirate romance without throwing the vampires in there.