This is one of those books where you know everything from the title and the genre that you need to know. Does a m/m romance novel called Kidnapped by the Pirate sound like something you'd enjoy? Then friends, you will like this book.
Nathaniel Bainbridge, whose father is the governor of a small colony in the New World, is on a ship to join his father and be married off when his ship is attacked by pirates. When the pirate captain Hawk learns he's on board, he takes Nathaniel hostage in order to ransom him. Hawk had been a respectable privateer until Nathaniel's father cheated him out of his plundered Spanish fortune and got him branded a pirate. So ransoming his son is both excellent revenge and a perfect One Last Job for him before he quits the pirate life for good.
Of course, this plan is complicated when it becomes clear to Hawk that Nathaniel is, uh, intrigued by him, and they end up having about the most consensual start to a sexual relationship that could happen after, you know, the kidnapping. There's the standard back and forth about whether it means anything, both of them suffer injuries that need to be cared for, we have a bunch of noble self-sacrifice, and the required happy ending.
The book navigates the reality of white Englishmen colonizing islands in the Caribbean about as well as a romance novel like this can. It is also the sort of historical that is determined to have their relationship Known and Accepted by the people they love, which I found a bit much but is also nice in its way. Overall I enjoyed this tremendously, and it was a much needed distraction during this month.
Grade: A
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