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Cinnamon and Gunpowder

Eli Brown

Start date: January 4, 2016

Finish date: January 28, 2016

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Apr 29, 2021 Amy Ellis rated it it was amazing

Oh my—I love this book so much. Ignore the cheesy cover. If you love beautiful writing, pirate adventure and food, this is the book for you. Owen Wedgwood is a chef, who gets taken prisoner aboard the Flying Rose, ship of the pirate Mad Hannah Mabbot. He can keep his life if he can create regular gourmet meals from the ship’s meager offerings. Written as Owen’s journal, the plot thickens when Owen gets to know Hannah and her motives. Betrayal, romance, and revenge move the story along to a satis ...more

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Sep 06, 2019 Maryam rated it really liked it

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Dec 30, 2021 Larissa rated it really liked it

A fun book recommended to me by my sister. So out of my usual reading norm - it was a fun and unique story about pirate and a cook! You get drawn into the lives of the pirates and the cook and look forward to their next adventure. The food talk was fun too - he has to cook to save his life so to see what he comes up with was page turning. It was actually cute even if a bit of violent in a few places!

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Jul 07, 2019 Jessica McLaren rated it really liked it

What a treat! A fun pirate tale with a feminist twist, and a healthy dose of social justice. It's such a perfect beach read, I wish I liked beaches. The scenes of cookery are just gorgeous in their evocative descriptions, and I'll never complain about cooking with yeast again!

I was a little confused about the motivation of Mad Hannah Mabbot-- hard to go into without spoilers, but I feel like her primary plotline could have been a bit more developed. As it was, it served to simply set up the fin ...more

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Jun 17, 2013 Nicole rated it it was ok

Shelves: didn-t-finish, 2014

This sounded super fun, but for a pirate story there was a significant lack of adventure. Sure you had glimpses of intrigue and the pirate with the heart of gold, but you had to get through a whole lot of monotonous drivel in between.

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