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lazy_raven's review against another edition
adventurous
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Great narrator. Informative without dragging out the details.
Content Warnings
Minor: Confinement, Death, Rape, Slavery, Excrement, Trafficking, Colonisation, and War
All triggering details are from court type documents and are formatted in a professional and educational way.mbwatson20's review against another edition
adventurous
informative
slow-paced
3.0
Slow beginning but picks up towards the end. Rather repetitive
anniep95's review against another edition
2.0
Did not love this. Too much seemed speculative--it gave the impression that Woodard didn't have enough to write about and had to add in filler to have a full book. This wasn't normal inferences drawn from historical documents, though, it was more of the details added in for the sake of storytelling value; "the air may have burned his nostrils as he stepped out" and other comments like that were unnecessary.
alfhersarchives's review
5.0
Excellently written and great at telling a story. I will be looking more deeply into the realiableness of various sources in the near future and will update this review as needed.
andhochmuth's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
4.0
A great history of the pirates of the Caribbean. It tried to balance narrative with historical information and generally does a good job, however, some sections come off as very textbook like.
There are a lot of names and changing of names which can make it hard to follow who is who.
There are a lot of names and changing of names which can make it hard to follow who is who.
basharria's review
4.0
Dense and informative. I found the narrative in the first third somewhat hard to follow due to the frequent shifting of focus, its historical trappings quite evident then, but the book improves dramatically when Blackbeard comes to the fore and the principal happenings of Nassau occur. That said, I do wish the text went deeper into Nassau itself. Despite the title, Nassau lacks for details, and little is spent on why it was such a vital and significant capital to the pirates.