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| Original Title: | Steel |
| ISBN: | 0061547913 (ISBN13: 9780061547911) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Carrie Vaughn
Hardcover | Pages: 291 pages Rating: 3.42 | 5855 Users | 768 Reviews
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| Title | : | Steel |
| Author | : | Carrie Vaughn |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 291 pages |
| Published | : | March 15th 2011 by HarperTeen (first published February 25th 2011) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Young Adult. Science Fiction. Time Travel. Historical. Historical Fiction. Adventure. Pirates |
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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. A thousand people would step over it and think it trash, but not her.Sixteen-year-old Jill has fought in dozens of fencing tournaments, but she has never held a sharpened blade. When she finds a corroded sword piece on a Caribbean beach, she is instantly intrigued and pockets it as her own personal treasure.
This was the tip of a rapier.
The broken tip holds secrets, though, and it transports Jill through time to the deck of a pirate ship. Stranded in the past and surrounded by strangers, she is forced to sign on as crew. 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.
Time travel, swordplay, and romance combine in an original high-seas adventure from New York Times bestseller Carrie Vaughn.
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Ratings: 3.42 From 5855 Users | 768 ReviewsWrite-Up Containing Books Steel
Steel. Ooh, shiver me timbers just thinking about it! Can I just say epically amazing! Oh yeah, this is the book. It is brilliant! I was so excited to read it and so ready to love it, and boy did it deliver! Its everything it promises and more! Its an incredibly exciting, roughish adventure that you cant just help getting caught up in. I was engrossed from the very beginning, and couldnt stop reading it. The characters were brilliant. Jill was a strong heroine (I mean pirate, oh yeah ;). On aABSOLUTELY LOVED ITCarrie Vaughn is one of my favorite authors, so when she started to write young adult novels, I was more than thrilled to get a sneek peek at this one. Steel is just a fun and fabulous read that combines a bit of time travel with historical fiction. It has great characters and a believable plot. Well, as far as you can get with time travel and historical fiction. I found myself transported back in time and spent the afternoon googling the pirates named in the story.Jill is an
This book was very entertaining but I also found it very unoriginal and bland. As a lover of pirate books and movies, I felt this was too similar to other works maybe if I read this a long time ago, I would have loved it!
The comparisons to the Disney franchise are inevitable. Steel by Carrie Vaughn follows 16-year-old Jill as she travels back in time, and finds herself in the midst of a pirate crew sailing the Caribbean. But make no mistake: there are no signs of Captain Jack Sparrow here, and Vaughn lets you know in an authors note that its deliberate.Her decision to make her pirates a little tamer than some of the more vicious tales is also deliberate. Thats because more than anything else, Vaughn wrote the
Honestly I have no idea why this book was on my TBR list. Trying to clear off my shelf, I finally borrowed this from the library and read it. After reading it, I still have no idea why I had this on my list of books to read. Totally not my genre and the book did nothing for me. Ms. Vaughn is a good writer, there is no doubt. The fantasy she weaves is good. The world building is innovative. The characters are so-so. This book is really more for young adult and it's probably why it did nothing for
I think I am going to be kinder in this review then I want to be for two reasons mostly.I read this book after reading a fantastic novel with pirates, seafaring terms and a cast of brilliant characters.I really, really loved the cover. It's gorgeous.In Steel, Carrie Vaughn sets up a story about Jill, a fencing student who just barely falls short of making the mark. The chapter titles are fencing terms, which is interesting in itself and sets the mood for each chapter well.However, it also means
YA books do not have to be all Disney. They can deal with hard issues, tough situations, and difficult consequences all while being age appropriate, well written, and still entertaining. Unwind by Neal Shusterman is a perfect example of that. This book, like many other YA novels coming out right now, takes what would normally be an extreme situation fraught with danger and dumbs it down to a series of easily survivable occurrences, unusually helpful people, and settings that are never as
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