The intimate scenes are on page, but without much detail. The romance was awkward and the sex scenes even more so. Cecilia was raised by lady pirates and is trained in killing and thieving, but she's also not supposed to shout or be vulgar because that's not ladylike. Cecilia as a main character felt lackluster and boring to me. These antics are paired with English social customs of being a lady, which creates this weird disconnect. There's a mustache-twirling idiot villain. Their pirate ships are actually houses they fly by reciting an incantation that someone had found through a glass bottle on a beach years ago. It's full of lady pirates who attempt to assassinate each other for fun. The book is similar in that it doesn't take itself seriously and the magic makes no sense at all. This kind of has that quirky absurdness of Sabrina, the Teenage Witch tv show from the early 2000s, which I love. The entire time I read this I couldn't decide whether I thought this was ridiculously escapist or just plain ridiculous.
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