A review by okthislooksbad
Tell No Tales: Pirates of the Southern Seas by Sam Maggs

adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

2.25

The idea was better than the execution of this, I think. Clearly a lot of research had went into it, and while it was very imaginative, I felt it was maybe slightly.. too imaginative? I had hoped for more fleshed out characters and a stronger story, but it just didn't work for me. Maybe if it had been longer and the characters had had more time to be developed? Some strange use of poop-emojis to censor swearwords (I don't know if that stays in the published version as I read an ARC) really took me out of the story. Overall just a very meh experience for me.

Thank you to the publisher and Edelweiss for providing me an ARC in exchange for my honest review.