The story is very simple and predictable. However, mostly the story was forgettable. I liked Jill fine and thought some of the details in Nassau were interesting. Not a lot of complex sentences or description just very cut and dry.
The writing was also very simple and written at a pretty simple reading level. At times though the story took a backseat to all historical descriptions. Jill is also a very good fencer so there is a lot about fencing. I liked that there is a lot of history about pirates in here. There really aren't any plot twists or unexpected turns in the story. The whole thing was incredibly predictable and could have been told in a paragraph. Jill struggles to find a way home while doing her best to survive both day to day pirate life and chilling battles.
Jill ends up joining the crew (she doesn't have a lot of options) and finds out that the magic that brought her here is dark indeed. When she wakes up she is in the past, on a genuine pirate ship. Then while on a touristy pirate cruise with her family a freak storm pops up and Jill ends up going overboard. While wandering the beach alone Jill finds the tip of an old rapier. Her family decides to go on vacation to Nassau in an effort to cheer everyone up. Jill is a champion fencer and is depressed after losing an important match. There honestly wasn't a lot to this story it was very simple and straight-forward and completely predictable. Time travel, swordplay, and romance combine in an original high-seas adventure from New York Times bestseller Carrie Vaughn.I have enjoyed a lot of Carrie Vaugh's books and have had this book on my shelf to read for a while. But a pirate’s life is bloody and brief, and as Jill learns about the dark magic that brought her there, she forms a desperate scheme to get home-one that risks everything in a duel to the death with a villainous pirate captain. Stranded in the past and surrounded by strangers, she is forced to sign on as crew. The broken tip holds secrets, though, and it transports Jill through time to the deck of a pirate ship. When she finds a corroded sword piece on a Caribbean beach, she is instantly intrigued and pockets it as her own personal treasure.
Sixteen-year-old Jill has fought in dozens of fencing tournaments, but she has never held a sharpened blade. A thousand people would step over it and think it trash, but not her. It was a slender length of rusted steel, tapered to a point at one end and jagged at the other, as if it had broken.
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