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I have no complaints when it comes to this book. Beau is a excellent heroine. I grow tired of leading heroines depending on a guy for everything, even though they say their independent. That is definetly not the case with Beau, shes intelligent, witty and passionate. She does her job to the T so no one can say she didn't earn her palce on the ship. She has a tongue thats quick and can sometimes land her into trouble but thats part of her charm. Across a Moonlit Sea was the first book I read by Marsha Canham, and when my copy got lost, I had to buy another one, cause I couldn't get the story out of my head! This is a serious page tuner, and a book I often pick up when I want a guarenteed good read. I'm now searching for more books by this talented author!


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Across a Moonlit Sea Marsha Canham 9780440217855 Books Reviews

If you like a quash buckling, high adventure on the sea,with ships battling to swipe goods. This is for you! If your looking for a twist in the story of a young girl manning the helm and navigating the sea. This is a book for you! If your looking for a story of hot sex, with a handsome, strong,and foreboding, noble heritage pirate, this has enough to heat up your hands just holding the book alone. The story was slow to draw me in, but once the story started a more steady flow,I was hooked. I had to follow Dante' to see how he would survive his ship sinking and the other ships betrayal and leaving them for dead, all to relish in glory of the Queen's praise and stolen treasures. I also enjoyed the story of Beau,sailing the ship, but dressed like a boy,and doing a man's work. Beau loved the sea and preferred to be with her father instead of frilly dresses, sipping tea, or looking for a wealthy husband. I enjoyed the high adventure and the very unlikely love story.

The only reason I gave this 3 stars instead of 5, was how the story ended. Dante' is in a battle, which also ends up a battle for his life and Beau is there to help save him. No mention of how it was handled with one of his own attacking him to kill him, I get taken to London and Beau and Dante' are already married and they are suppose to meet with the queen! I felt cheated that I didn't have the privy to how the wedding came about,after reading about their turbulent relationship and get more info about others. Big whoop! Dante' gives Beau her own big ship and the story ends! Some happily ever after; Dante' has a new ship and Beau as another. They're married, but apart, sailing the sea? The beginning of the story was slow. The main part hot, intriguing, and adventurous! The ending a was did IMO,and will think twice before trying this author's book again.
This is one of the best uses of historical events in a romance I've read. Canham manages to balance and intertwine the action demanded by a rip-roaring, rollicking adventure on the high seas with the emotional development of the characters that makes for a good romance.

The main historical event is real,as the story takes us to the attack by Francis Drake on the Spanish fleet in Cadiz in 1587, an attack that delayed the eventual attempted invasion of England by the Spanish Armada by a year, giving Queen Elizabeth time to build up her own fleet to counter that attack. The story itself is about another, fictional privateer, Simon Dante, a half-French, half-English count who through a series of adventures manages to learn of the location of King Phillip of Spain's naval buildup and direct Drake to the right location, ensuring his success in that action. Dante only manages to get to Drake because he's rescued from his sinking ship by the Egret, captained by Jonas Spence and steered by his helmswoman daughter, our heroine, Isabeau (Beau). It is Beau who figures out the key to decoding the documents Dante has captured that show the importance of Cadiz, neatly tying the story into that event, which we then see through Dante's eyes as he joins Drake's force.

The romance between Dante and Beau develops beautifully, with both of them depicted as complex, interesting characters. Dante's reluctance to accept that Beau, as a woman, is actually a competent, valuable member of the crew and her fierce determination to do better than all the men around her to prove her worth, even before Dante shows up, ring true to that (and any) time and place. So do both of their issues with relationships in general and with the difference in their social status. The sexual tension and eventual sex are explicit, if that's not your thing maybe this isn't the book for you. That would be a shame, though, as it's a really well-written, interesting story, richly embellished with enough well-researched details of life and society and ships to give a real taste of the period without bogging down the story.

I particularly liked that it was a much more realistic look at life at sea, and particularly on pirate ships, than in most historicals. The heroine is not threatened with rape on a regular basis by her own crew mates, there is respect between the captains and their crews, and pirates are well-disciplined and hardworking, not a bunch of barely-constrained criminals. Seriously, how could pirates have been so successful otherwise?

It's not perfect by any means. There are a few moments that defy logic, like when the heroine, who has been part of the ship's crew for 8 years, suddenly falls out of the crow's nest while on watch for no particular reason other than to let the hero rescue her or when clothing that is sturdy enough to stand up to the wear and tear of working on a sailing ship suddenly rips like tissue paper when it's convenient for an erotic encounter. There's is also an annoying plot element that goes nowhere, when Beau has information about the defenses of Cadiz that should be critical to the success of the attack and the Egret rushes off to join Drake's forces, but the information is never passed along nor does it turn out to have had any meaning, as the defenses in question don't seem to exist during the battle. But these are minor, little flaws in an otherwise excellent story.
I have no complaints when it comes to this book. Beau is a excellent heroine. I grow tired of leading heroines depending on a guy for everything, even though they say their independent. That is definetly not the case with Beau, shes intelligent, witty and passionate. She does her job to the T so no one can say she didn't earn her palce on the ship. She has a tongue thats quick and can sometimes land her into trouble but thats part of her charm. Across a Moonlit Sea was the first book I read by Marsha Canham, and when my copy got lost, I had to buy another one, cause I couldn't get the story out of my head! This is a serious page tuner, and a book I often pick up when I want a guarenteed good read. I'm now searching for more books by this talented author!