Hope everyone’s week is going well I’m done with my Christmas shopping. I am just trying to settle in and read and relax for the holiday. I have a good number of arcs that I’m working on and want to get some holiday books in too. Right now I’m focusing on Consort of Fire by Kit Rocha. I’ll have a review up for that soonish.
Today I’m focusing on The Pirate Princess by Luca Frigerio and Lorenza Pigliamosche. I was given a copy of this book for free to review in exchange for my honest opinions.
Synopsis
This book is a grand pirate adventure that focuses on Julie, the daughter of the dreaded Pirate King. Julie has been living on an island away from her father for her own safety.
Yet things come up and her father wants to see her so two of the men who raised her. A wonderful duo come to bring her back to her father. This duo is my favorite. Thy perfect gay uncles who take good care of her when things get complicated with her family.
And boy do they get complicated! When Julie is on her way to get back to her father. Things start to come up that lead to mysteries about Julie herself. A mysterious woman pirates wants to get revenge through Julie. What does she have to do with Julie’s father? And what will Julie do once she meets her father. After learning more about him, she is even more unsure about what to do with her life. He isn’t the man she expected and instead is violent and cruel.
Will Julie and her friends be able to escape the trouble her father and the mysterious woman are causing?
Review
I felt like the introduction was a little fast. We weren’t given enough information about the world from the onset. I was left questioning if I missed something when it came to learning about Julie’s life.
Having read the whole piece I understand the lack of information at the onset. I still didn’t like it. But that is just my preference. This book reads like the first in a series. I would read more of it. It has the bones of being something really interesting. It reminds me of Jeremy Whitley’s Princeless: Raven The Pirate Princess Book for a younger set.
I’d give it four stars, the art was engaging and the story had the beginnings of something interesting. It’s perfect for tweens. There is some violence however its not any more than one might expect from a pirate adventure. I’d give this piece four stars I liked the art and the story was engaging.
Amazon: The Pirate Princess
About the Author
One of Luca Frigerio;s first comics was The Steams, published by Noise Press. For Noise Press he wrote the three issues of The Steams Chronicles and also collaborated with Old Dirty Dogs. For Scout Comics he wrote Kitzune and for Heavy Metal – Virus he wrote Everybody Wants to Rule the World. For Noise Press he wrote A Steampunk Carol, a graphic Novel that will also be published in Japan, the United States, Chile, Hungary. He is currently writing The Tears (2022) for Second Sight Publishing and In the land of the Dragon (2021) for Last Ember Press and The Pirate Princess for Mad Cave.
Lorenza Pigliamosche is a comic artist, illustrator, and comic school teacher born in Rome in 1997. She published her first comic with Noise Press in 2019 and from 2021 started working for publishers such as ProgItalia magazine, Mad Cave Maverick, tabletop and game companies such as The Upperdeck company, Ludus Magnus Studios, and Fallen Flag.
Do you have any favorite pirate stories? Let me know in the comments!
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