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Kindle Edition eBooks Details
  • 04/2018
  • 978-1980765424 B07CNZFVCX
  • 433 pages
  • $3.99
Paperback Details
  • 04/2018
  • 978-1980765424
  • 433 pages
  • $13.99
Danielle Thorne
Author, Contributor
A Pirate at Pembroke

Adult; Romance; (Market)

Sophie Crestwood is never going to catch a husband. Her father is a gossip, her mother has her nose in a book, and little Jack has shamefully been dismissed from boarding school. Worst of all, a pirate moves next door into Pembroke Hall. When Sophie's sent to a matchmaking party at a neighboring estate, the pirate from Pembroke arrives and distracts everyone from the summer festivities. Unguarded, her feelings about the mysterious Captain Murdock bloom into a trusted friendship that Sophie fears may come to mean more than anyone would ever suspect. Keeping company with a reputed pirate is one thing, but falling in love with him could ruin the eccentric Crestwood family for good.
Reviews
Austen enthusiasts seeking sweet romance will be well pleased with Thornton’s Regency-era novel, which brims with proper manners and subtle courtship. Sophie Crestwood is content to live at home with her gossipy father, bookworm mother, and precocious younger brother, who dreams of nothing more than joining the Royal Navy. Though Sophie assumes her pretty face will help her find a husband, she’s in no rush to marry or even meet the new owner of the adjacent manor, bachelor and rumored pirate Captain Murdock, who moves in with much mystery and no fanfare. During a summer house party, Sophie is nudged along by a family friend with a penchant for matchmaking. Captain Murdock is a guest as well, providing Sophie an opportunity to better learn his character while they navigate card games, performances, and dancing. Thornton takes the time to draw Murdock as a hero rather than a rascally sea dog, rewarding the reader with a gentle, entertaining love story. (BookLife)
https://christianfictiongirl.blog/2018/05/30/a-pirate-at-pembroke-2018/

A Pirate at Pembroke is a FANTASTIC story. It is very much in the style of Jane Austen with its wonderfully detailed descriptions, poignant inner monologues, and a palpable tension between the hero and heroine that lasts until the final chapter. I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of this book, and I am very sorry my time with Sophie and Captain Murdock is over. This is a novel that will stick with me long after finishing the last page.

Told from a first-person perspective, the reader follows Sophie as she encounters her new, mysterious neighbor, the dashing Captain Murdock of Pembroke. Intrigue and rumor surrounds Murdock — some say he is nothing but a villainous pirate while others say he is a first-rate Navy man who protected British interests against pirates and the French. Regardless, when the reader first meets Murdock he is a surly, brooding, and injured man who makes sure to keep all — even the reader — at arms length. Of course, this just makes Sophie, and the reader, more and more curious about the handsome and captivating neighbor.

Sophie is an excellently written character. She is kind, generous, and compassionate. She is beautiful, but doesn’t seem to know it because of her humble nature. She always attempts to stand a minute in someone else’s shoes before coming to any sort of judgement or conclusion, which is a fantastic reminder for all of us today where conclusions about someone or something are drawn based on emotion in the moment rather than on actual fact. While others sit in gossip groups talking about someone they don’t really know, Sophie is the first to stand up against the meanness and hatred in defense of the one being spoken against. Reading about a character willing to stand up for what is right was, to me, a breath of fresh air!
 

 

Formats
Kindle Edition eBooks Details
  • 04/2018
  • 978-1980765424 B07CNZFVCX
  • 433 pages
  • $3.99
Paperback Details
  • 04/2018
  • 978-1980765424
  • 433 pages
  • $13.99
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