{"id":96104,"date":"2019-05-13T12:27:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T01:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/?p=96104"},"modified":"2019-05-15T12:43:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T01:43:23","slug":"review-devils-ballast-meg-caddy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/2019\/05\/13\/review-devils-ballast-meg-caddy\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: Devil’s Ballast by Meg Caddy"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Meg<\/a>

Meg Caddy<\/p><\/div>\n

Meg Caddy sure knows how to write an adventure. Devil\u2019s Ballast<\/a><\/em> is a rollicking, heartfelt and fun novel based on the true life of Anne Bonny. This is the perfect read for anyone who has ever wanted to up and quit their life and become a pirate!<\/p>\n\n\n

If you\u2019ve never heard of Anne Bonny\u2026 well it\u2019s the perfect reason to pick up a copy of this book! Anne Bonny was a married woman until she met a pirate named Calico Jack. They fell in love, Anne disguised herself as a man, and then ran away with him to live a pirate\u2019s life! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s a lot of speculation around what happened to Anne Bonny and I have to say I really love what Meg Caddy did with her story. Anne is presented just as I imagined her – powerful, cocky, bold, brave, and passionate. She is a woman born into the wrong life and she risks it all when she finds the life meant for her. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Devil\u2019s Ballast is a fast-paced story told from the POV of Anne, Calico and Captain Barnet, the pirate-hunter. Anne is more of an anti-hero, as some of her choices are definitely questionable, but author Meg Caddy captures the time and place so brilliantly. This is the 1700s, after all. This is life on a pirate ship. This is fighting for one\u2019s survival! Anne\u2019s choices were not easy and Caddy shows us this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Devil\u2019s Ballast is a must for anyone looking for a story with a sharp-tongued, cutlass-wielding, savvy female pirate!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Devil’s Ballast<\/a><\/em> is available now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Devil\u2019s Ballast is a must for anyone looking for a story with a sharp-tongued, cutlass-wielding, savvy female pirate!” – read Bron’s review of Devil’s Ballast by Meg Caddy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":96110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[9873,9874,4482,6644,6649],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DevilsBallastReview-social.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96104"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96379,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96104\/revisions\/96379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}