* I got this book for my review for my honest thoughts***

I overall really enjoyed this book. I really loved the focus on sisterhood, adventure and ship dramatics! I struggled with the pacing at the start of this novel but by the end it was super hard to put down. I really loved the unique romance dynamics in this book and found it super hard to predict who would be with who. I also loved the leadership roll that cal was in throughout his whole novel. I overall really enjoyed the book and will def be checking out this sequel. I am curious to see if future books will expand the POV we experience. ( )

* I got this book for my review for my honest thoughts***

I overall really enjoyed this book. I really loved the focus on sisterhood, adventure and ship dramatics! I struggled with the pacing at the start of this novel but by the end it was super hard to put down. I really loved the unique romance dynamics in this book and found it super hard to predict who would be with who. I also loved the leadership roll that cal was in throughout his whole novel. I overall really enjoyed the book and will def be checking out this sequel. I am curious to see if future books will expand the POV we experience. ( )

I'm thinking like 2.5-3 stars and I don't know I simply wasn't feeling it. It seemed kind of blah in parts and it's not bad or horrible but it didn't stand out that much to me either. It didn't really get and keep my interest until the end and I was like I might have to look at the next book cause of the end, but I might not. It was okay, but didn't really work for me. ( )

Seafire sounds great on the package, young female pirates taking revenge where they can against the bloodthirsty warlord who rules over the ocean.

Caledonia Styx, our main character, lived on a ship with many other families, on the run from the bloody Bullets, who force young boys into conscription and addiction to a dug to control them, until she trusted a Bullet who claimed he wanted to defect. Everyone on the ship was murdered as a result, except for her and her best friend Pisces. Several years later, she is captain of her own ship and leading a crew of women in a series of revenge attacks against the oppressive Bullet fleet.

The adventures lead one into the other, and serve as world-building. Your mind automatically tries to place where in our world these locations could possibly be, how humanity might have built such things after the flooding of the world. However, the book was really held back by the story only being told from Caledonia's perspective. There are a plethora of intriguing characters on the ship, all with their own backstories, yet Caledonia's isolation from them as captain really hinders the reader from connecting with the crew. Pisces, Redtooth, Hime, etc all deserved their own perspective chapters.

The climactic scene where the girls of the Mors Nevis attempt a rescue by attacking a Bullet ship was decent enough, but then the author decided to have Caledonia leave her crew without telling them to attempt to kill her Bullet betrayer even though it makes no sense and she loses. It was out of place and felt incredibly tacked on.

Enjoyable in the way a summer blockbuster movie is enjoyable., Seafire is a cookie cutter YA adventure, complete with rather pointless tacked on heterosexuality. I liked it enough I'll probably read the sequel when I need something light and easy for a palate cleanser at some point. ( )

After her family is killed by corrupt warlord Aric Athair and his bloodthirsty army of Bullets, Caledonia Styx is left to chart her own course on the dangerous and deadly seas. She captains her ship, the Mors Navis, with a crew of girls and women just like her, who have lost their families and homes because of Aric and his men. The crew has one mission: stay alive, and take down Aric's armed and armored fleet.

But when Caledonia's best friend and second-in-command barely survives an attack thanks to help from a Bullet looking to defect, Caledonia finds herself questioning whether to let him join their crew. Is this boy the key to taking down Aric Athair once and for all . . . or will he threaten everything the women of the Mors Navis have worked for?