I happily accept ARCs for review, and if you're interested in getting some free publicity for your book, click here for more details. STEEL Kirkus Reviews In a thoroughly enjoyable take on the historical time-travel tale, Jill Archer, vacationing in the Bahamas with her family and depressed at having just missed qualifying for the Junior World Fencing Championships, uncovers the rusty tip of an old sword in the sand. I read almost any kind of novel, any length, any genre, although I prefer Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Young Adult books. I’ll still be checking out more of her books because I enjoyed Voices of Dragons so much, but I wouldn’t recommend this one. I like Vaughn’s writing style, but her plot in Steel didn’t interest me at all. It was fairly formulaic and I predicted every single thing that happened. My Thoughts: After reading and enjoying Vaughn’s first YA novel, Voices of Dragons, I was pretty excited when I found out she’d written another one. But a pirate’s life is bloody and brief, and as Jill learns about the dark magic that brought her there, she forms a desperate scheme to get home-one that risks everything in a duel to the death with a villainous pirate captain.

Stranded in the past and surrounded by strangers, she is forced to sign on as crew. The broken tip holds secrets, though, and it transports Jill through time to the deck of a pirate ship. When she finds a corroded sword piece on a Caribbean beach, she is instantly intrigued and pockets it as her own personal treasure. Age and Discords Apple, and the young adult books Voice of Dragons and Steel. Sixteen-year-old Jill has fought in dozens of fencing tournaments, but she has never held a sharpened blade. The Irresponsible Reader About the Author CARRIE VAUGHN, the New York Times. A thousand people would step over it and think it trash, but not her. This was the tip of a rapier. Summary: It was a slender length of rusted steel, tapered to a point at one end and jagged at the other, as if it had broken.

Steel by carrie vaughn