{"id":4190,"date":"2013-11-24T18:34:33","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T23:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=4190"},"modified":"2022-10-31T19:49:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T23:49:10","slug":"scarlet-sails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/4190","title":{"rendered":"Scarlet Sails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00CEOUPXM\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B00CEOUPXM&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=randomreading-20\">Scarlet Sails<\/a><\/em> (2013) TS Rhodes <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00CEOUPXM\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00CEOUPXM&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=randomreading-20\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/scarlet-sails.jpg?resize=200%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"scarlet-sails\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4191\" \/><\/a>This is a short story&#8211;a prologue to a series, featuring a female pirate captain.<\/p>\n<p>So I had to check it out.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s 1717. Scarlet McGrath is a pirate&#8211;captain of her own ship. And she has a problem&#8211;they&#8217;re low on grog.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a short story, and I&#8217;d be very curious to learn how much research the author did and how accurate the historical bits are. It didn&#8217;t seem outrageous or ridiculous, and was very enjoyable.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;ll check out the first book in the series.<br \/>\n<strong>Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/avg_rating_widget\/17902841\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scarlet Sails (2013) TS Rhodes This is a short story&#8211;a prologue to a series, featuring a female pirate captain. So I had to check it out. It&#8217;s 1717. Scarlet McGrath is a pirate&#8211;captain of her own ship. And she has a problem&#8211;they&#8217;re low on grog. It&#8217;s a short story, and I&#8217;d be very curious to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33,35],"tags":[556],"class_list":["post-4190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical","category-short-story","tag-georgian-era"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-15A","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3202,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/3202","url_meta":{"origin":4190,"position":0},"title":"Scarlet","author":"Michelle","date":"October 8, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Scarlet (2012) A. 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Honestly, I don't even care as much for the last couple of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;British&quot;","block_context":{"text":"British","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/british"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/A-Study-in-Scarlet-Women-Thomas.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5793,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/5793","url_meta":{"origin":4190,"position":3},"title":"A Regimental Murder","author":"Michelle","date":"April 9, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"A Regimental Murder (2004\/2001) Ashley Gardner Set in London in 1816 Captain Gabriel Lacey is a half-pay captain from the calvalry, no longer fit for service after his right knee and leg were terribly injured in Spain, during the war. \"India, and the Dutch campaign,\" I replied. \"Then the Peninsula.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;British&quot;","block_context":{"text":"British","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/british"},"img":{"alt_text":"A-Regimental-Murder","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/A-Regimental-Murder.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":11368,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/11368","url_meta":{"origin":4190,"position":4},"title":"Seduce Me at Sunrise","author":"Michelle","date":"January 11, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Seduce Me at Sunrise (2008) Lisa Kleypas Set in England in 1848 Kev Merripen was found beaten and ailing by the Hathaway family, who took him in and treated him as one of their own, despite his obviously being a Rom. 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