While on the seas, she is captured by pirates and sold to none other than her father, who hid his pirate occupation from her all these years. Gabrielle Brooks sets sail to find her father at the age of eighteen. It could be that neither of the leads are actual pirates, but I think it is more that the story is just a bit too soft if not frivolous for such a classification. The hero hates pirates, the heroine loves the good pirates and fears the bad, and the villain is a pirate – but I still cannot bring myself to classify it as a true pirate story. Then there is the infamous James Malory, who once was a pirate but has now mended his ways. The heroine tries to hide the fact that her father is a pirate (a good treasure hunting pirate) or wants others to believe she is or is not a pirate, depending on her purpose. With all the recent talk of pirates, I can’t see Captive of My Desires as a pirate book although it certainly starts and ends with pirates. Expecting her books to be humorous if not a bit trite, I guess you could say that I put myself in a Lindsey frame of mind and have fun riding the surface of the story. Johanna Lindsey is one author I can usually enjoy if I don’t think much about all the unlikelihoods and but-what-abouts.
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