Ananna is a
seventeen year old girl has lived the life of a pirate alongside her parents.
She has plans of her own. And those plans do not include marriage to a son from
a low ranking Pirate clan. She wants to be captain of her very own ship one
day. Being forced into marriage by her parents, she does what any independent,
strong-willed teenager would do….she steals the nearest camel she can spot and
hightails it out of town before someone catches her.
During one of
her nights of hiding out in a nearby town she encounters an assassin (Naji).
Not just any assassin, but one who can blend into the night and use magic to
overtake his victims. For the assassin things do not go as planned on his
attempt to kill Ananna. While trekking through the desert Naji has another
opportunity to kill her this time, but ironically she is the one who ends up
saving his life, from a snake no less. It is because of this, that a curse is
set into motion and things at least for the moment will not be the same for these
two.
Together they embark on a journey that will hopefully lead them to a cure
that will break the curse and hopefully restore their lives back to they way
they were. Of course they will have to watch their backs as the pirate clan Ananna
escaped from come looking for revenge of their own.
“I can't believe this," I muttered,
cradling the skein of water up close to my chest. "Two weeks in the desert
all on account of some assassin who doesn't know how to look out for
snakes."
"If you hadn't killed that snake," Naji said calmly, "I would have killed you."
"If you hadn't killed that snake," Naji said calmly, "I would have killed you."
-Cassandra
Rose Clarke, The Assassin’s Curse
The banter between these two was cute. I
think their personalities help to balance each other out.
Naji's
unwillingness to answer Ananna's questions or let her in on the whole situation
that they were facing together irked me at times. He seemed to act like he is
in this predicament alone and Ananna was not with him. And for all of Ananna's
feistiness and attitude, she sometimes gave up a little too quickly in her
quest for answers.
I had wanted
to read this book for months and I finally bought it…so glad I did. This was such
an enjoyable read. I hadn't read a good pirate story in years. There are no big
twists and turns in this story, but I was still entertained by the adventure
that occurred during their time together and read the book in the course of a
day. The Assassin’s Curse is a story filled
with adventure, magic, romance, and a good old fashion pirate fight or two. The
ending leaves room for the second book in the series, The Pirate’s Wish set to release on June 4, 2013. I cannot wait to
see what will happen next with Ananna and Naji. If you are into fantasy,
pirates, and assassin’s then this book may just be what you are looking for.
Happy Reading! J
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars.
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