Overall: 4.5 rounded to ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Readability: 📖📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋💋💋
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑🍑
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥+
Humor: A touch
Perspective: Third person perspective from both heroes
When mains are first on page together: Pretty soon in (I think it’s the first chapter?)
Cliffhanger: No, this ends with a happily ever after
Epilogue: Yes
Format: listened to the audio version on Hoopla

Should I read in order?
I think this is a stand alone novel

Basic plot:
Hawk kidnaps Nathaniel aboard his pirate ship and decides it’s the perfect revenge against his father.

Give this a try if you want:
- Georgian time period (1710)
- M/M romance
- bit of height difference – Hawk is well over 6 feet and Nathaniel is 5’7”
- revenge plot
- privateer turned private
- virgin hero
- kidnapped/captive hero
- pirates!
- on a ship most of the book
- higher steam – 8 scenes

Ages:
- Hawk is 41, Nathaniel is 18

First line:
If pirates would have been the bloody savage end of Nathaniel Bainbridge, he wished they’d get on with it.

My thoughts:
This romance has so much that I love! I am always up for a kidnapped/captive vibe and this starts off with a bang with Hawk taking Nathaniel, hoping for sweet revenge against his father. Add in an emotional tug, most of it taking place on a ship (lots of forced proximity), great steam and I am totally sold.

I love that this one didn’t take too long for Hawk to be seeing Nathaniel different. I loved how vulnerable they both were with each other. I loved the forbidden love aspect. I also love Cornell Collin’s narration so that just made this book all the more delightful for me.

There was a bit of separation at the end but it was rather angsty and I was uncertain about what would happen, so I was fine with it. Even with the hero engaged to someone else – that sometimes can get to me too – but it was done in a way that it was just a minor plot thing to me.

This was my first by Keira Andrews, but I’ll definitely be searching out more from them.

Content warnings: These should be taken as a minimum of what to expect. It’s very possible I have missed some.

- dubious consent – Hawk kidnaps Nathaniel and holds him aboard his ship
- scenes of danger, violence, and murder
- alcohol use and over indulgence
- possible feelings of infidelity – Nathaniel is engaged to someone most of the book
- mention of mother dying in childbirth
- mention of slavery and Nathaniel’s father using it in the New World though it was outlawed elsewhere
- some elements of roughness (Hawk grabs Nathaniel by the throat to scare/subdue him in the beginning)

Locations of kisses/intimate scenes:

 
Safe sex: 

Not really 

 
17% - 🔥 Nathaniel self pleasure scene
34% - 🔥 Nathaniel on top with a handy for him
38% - 🔥 light praise, desk sex with Nathaniel’s wrists held down
mention of Hawk using a glory hole on prior ship voyages
47% - 🔥 mutual blow jobs
54% - 🔥 Nathaniel gives Hawk a blow job then masturbates
61% - 🔥 sex on the beach – Hawk takes Nathaniel doggy style on the beach
70% - 🔥 thank god you’re alive tree humping sex (no penetration?)
94% - kiss
97% - 🔥 Hawk walks in on Nathaniel masturbating, Hawk gives anal oral to Nathaniel, missionary with Hawk on top