To Catch A Pirate Review

To Catch A Pirate By Jade Parker

When Annalisa Townsend was 16 years old, she and her dad was on a ship named The Horizon on the way to the island Mourning in the Carribean, the reason is that King George of England has assigned him governorship on this island and have giving him a lot of gold coins to bouild up a city. But they get attackt by pirats from the ship Phantom Mist whos captain is Crimson Kelly. Annalisa is ordered to hide, but after a while she wants to help. She crawls out of hiding and is met by a pirat named James Sterling, he tries to take Annalisa´s dead mom´s necklace, but she begs him not to and he gets her ring instead, but wants something with more value, when she says she doesn´t have any, he says she does and kiss her. "A fair trade, m'lady," he tells her afterward, before disappearing. The pirats burn the ship down but her, her dad and some other people escape, but the pirats have taken the box with the gold coins. Now a year later Anna is captain of a ship called The Dangerous Lady, because she forged a letter of marque. Her dad is in prison because the king thinks he was in on it with the pirats, so now Anna is on her way out to find James Sterling, because she know he can lead her to Crimson Kelly, who toke the gold, so she can bring it back home to free her father. James Sterling is now a pirat without a ship, because Crimson found out that James let Anna go, Crimson thereafter left James and a man named Ferret on a island, until they escaped it after 6 months. Now him and Ferret is in French Louisiana, and there is a reward out for James. Ferret betrays he and turn him in. To James suprise the person who is looking for him is Anna. She holds him prisoner on the ship, but have a soft hart for him, and eventually lets him work on the ship and teach her Sword lesson, in exchange she want the location where Crimson burries his treasures. He gives them the directions, and when they find the island and the Phantom Mist, they do a sneak attackt, captures Crimson and gets another ship. Along the way Anna and James fall for each other. James and Ferret takes the Phantom Ship and let them, but afterwards she finds out that the treasures in on the ship and that James knew about it. Anna is now out to get James, but gets attackt by another piratship, belonging to Black Bart Roberts, who is a master at sea. They fight But Anna almost gets killed when James shows up and saves her. They all flee to James´s ship, because The Dangerous Lady sinks and Crimson is now onboard Black Barts ship. James has decide to go to England for Anna, to free her father, eventhough he will probably be hanged himself for beign a pirat. When they get there her father becomes free, but James is sent to prison. Anna tells him she loves him before leaving with her father for Mourning. But will the two of them be together at sea in the end?

This was a really loveable book, a quick read, with Action, adventure, pirates, romance, fun and many other thngs. It had everything a summer read should have.
The first thing i thought when i saw this book was: Pirates Of The Carribean, and it was also this i thought when i read it. Also the name James Sterling... Cough.. Jack sparrow, Just saying. But no matter how much it was like that movie i enjoyed the book. I really enjoyed the book and i think that it is a great teen book. The only thing that I wished was different, was that there wasn´t much description of the things and surroundings. But a really good ending.

Grade: 10