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The Valkyrie Series: The First Fleet - (Books 1-3) Look Sharpe!, Ill Wind & Dead Reckoning: Caribbean Pirate Adventure Kindle Edition
Seafaring historical adventure, perfect for fans of Julian Stockwin, Patrick O’Brian and Bernard Cornwell,
“A real adventure story, the like of which I have not read in many a year. Suspend reality, hold on & enjoy the adventure” – R.P. Smith, Amazon reviewer.
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Look Sharpe!:
Henry Sharpe is a recently bereaved and bankrupt English earl who travels to the Caribbean to help his uncle run his sugar plantation.
When he arrives, he finds his uncle has given up on that idea to lead a more exciting life as a privateer, earning a fearsome reputation as Captain Tarr.
Ill Wind:
Gabriella Berryngton is an unhappy and oppressed fourteen-year-old girl living in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1683. She dreams of escaping her bitter, ambitious stepfather and sailing off into the unknown.
Her dreams come true when her stepfather sells her into marriage.
Dead Reckoning:
Leo is born in Spanish Panama in 1659. When he is twelve years old he witnesses the violent rape and murder of his mother by three of the Caribbean's most feared pirates: Tarr, Blake and Hornigold, and swears revenge at all costs.
Then he meets Gabriella van Ecken.
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Karen Perkins grew up in and around boats and competed in her Contender dinghy, The Ride of the Valkyrie, at national and European level, taking the ladies title in both championships in 1995.
What readers say about Karen Perkins:
“Ms Perkins is a true artist of the spoken word” – Author JJ Toner
”Karen Perkins is truly a master of words, emotion, and craft” - Author Linda George
“A must read for anyone who loves stories of high adventure, privateers, and romance on the open seas" – Amazon reviewer
“Karen Perkins is a real gem of a writer!” – Amazon reviewer
“I love Karen Perkins style of writing and her connecting tales.” – Amazon reviewer
“Your books are like a binge watch on Netflix because once you start you can’t put it down” - Instagram review
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateJune 8, 2016
- Reading age16 - 18 years
- File size2477 KB
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Look Sharpe!- #1 Bestseller Caribbean Historical Fiction
Ill Wind - #1 Bestseller Caribbean Historical Fiction & Sea Adventures
Dead Reckoning - Top 50 Bestseller - UK Kindle Store#1 Bestseller in Historical Thrillers, Action & Adventure Suspense and War & Military as part of 'The Hot Box', and #1 Bestseller - Caribbean Historical Fiction, Sea Adventures, & Sailing Look Sharpe!:
Henry Sharpe is a recently bereaved and bankrupt English earl who travels to the Caribbean to help his uncle run his sugar plantation.
When he arrives, he finds his uncle has given up on that idea to lead a more exciting life as a privateer, earning a fearsome reputation as Captain Tarr.
Ill Wind:
Gabriella Berryngton is an unhappy and oppressed fourteen-year-old girl living in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1683. She dreams of escaping her bitter, ambitious stepfather and sailing off into the unknown.
Her dreams come true when her stepfather sells her into marriage.
Dead Reckoning:
Leo is born in Spanish Panama in 1659.
When he is twelve years old he witnesses the violent rape and murder of his mother by three of the Caribbean's most feared pirates: Tarr, Blake and Hornigold, and swears revenge at all costs.
Then he meets Gabriella van Ecken.
About the Author
Karen's latest book, Knight of Betrayal is her second novel in the Yorkshire Ghosts Series. Set in both 1170 and modern day, Knight of Betrayal focuses on the four knights - Hugh de Morville, Reginald FitzUrse, William de Tracey and Richard le Brett - who broke the sanctuary of Canterbury Cathedral to murder the Archbishop, Thomas Becket. Hiding out in Knaresborough Castle, the extreme level of their medieval sense of guilt and dishonour has horrific repercussions nearly a millennium later.
Karen is also the proprietor of LionheART Publishing House. Established to help and support Indie authors with the practical side of publishing their books, e.g. editing, formatting and professional cover design, Karen and her team have helped over two hundred books come to publication in the past three years.
Product details
- ASIN : B01GU07T5M
- Publisher : LionheART Publishing House (June 8, 2016)
- Publication date : June 8, 2016
- Language : English
- File size : 2477 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 478 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,124,833 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #189 in Teen & Young Adult US Colonial & Revolutionary Fiction eBooks
- #1,096 in Teen & Young Adult Historical Romance eBooks
- #9,417 in Sea Stories
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About the author
Karen's latest release, DIVIDED BY WITCHCRAFT, is the second in a new series of historical fiction short stories examining the frenzy of witch hunting that swept the north of England in the late 16th and early 17th centuries – including the most famous, that of the Pendle Witches in 1612.
Karen Perkins is the author of the Yorkshire Ghost Stories, the Pendle Witch Short Stories and the Valkyrie Series of historical nautical fiction. Her fiction has appeared at the top of bestseller lists on both sides of the Atlantic, including the top 21 in the UK Kindle Store in 2018.
Her first Yorkshire Ghost Story – THE HAUNTING OF THORES-CROSS – won the Silver Medal for European Fiction in the prestigious 2015 Independent Publisher Book Awards in New York, whilst her Valkyrie novel, DEAD RECKONING, was long-listed in the 2011 MSLEXIA novel competition.
Originally a financial advisor, a sailing injury left Karen with a chronic pain condition (although she did take the European ladies title despite the injury!). Writing has given her a new lease of – and purpose to – life, and she is currently working on a sequel to Parliament of Rooks: Haunting Brontë Country, as well as the next Pendle Witch story.
Karen Perkins is a member of the Society of Authors, the Writers' Guild of Great Britain and the Horror Writers Association.
Currently working on:
THE WITCH HUNTER OF PENDLE
and
A QUESTION OF WITCHCRAFT: Ghosts of Haworth, book 2.
Release dates tba.
For more details, please see Karen's website:
www.karenperkinsauthor.com
She can be contacted by email: karenperkinsauthor@gmail.com
and is also on Twitter: @LionheartG
Instagram: @yorkshireghosts
And Facebook:
www.facebook.com/karenperkinsauthor
www.facebook.com/Yorkshireghosts
www.facebook.com/groups/yorkshireghosts
(Author photo credit: John Rice)
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I did not particularly warm to Sharpe in Look Sharpe. He seemed a little two dimensional in comparison with Gabrielle and Leo in the other two stories. I am not sure what it was about him, but he seemed to need more depth.
I loved Gabrielle. Her character was vibrant and I was truly drawn to her as a character in the second and third books. Although she only makes a brief appearance in the first book, in the second and third books I came to love her as an amazingly forthright, and emancipated woman.
In book 3, Leo and Gabrielle share the protagonists role as Gabrielle’s intertwining story with Leo’s unfolds. It is well written and fits very well together to conclude how they wreaked revenge on the people who had wronged them.
As a series which not only combines swashbuckling piracy, adventure and vengeance but also love, it is truly well worth a read. My only criticisms are: Sharpe’s lack of depth of character in the first book; Also Van Ecken’s father’s dialect in Look Sharpe, which seemed to me to break up the flow of the story. He reminded me of Yoda the Jedi Master in Star Wars with his back to front English. Finally, I was also disappointed that Gabrielle didn’t appear to find out that Sharpe was her father – or is that for another book?
I received a complimentary copy of The Valkyrie Series, The First Fleet in return for an honest review.
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A Taste And Then It Ends.
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