To Plunder a Pirate Queen

                           

Title: To Plunder a Pirate Queen

Series: Dangerous Tides

Author: Nina Saxena

Published: October 24, 2023

Pages: 186

Genre: SciFi Romance

They called her the Pirate Queen.
She is the exiled royalty from a planet of breeders, a species raided and trafficked for their ability to produce children out of a reproductive cycle. Rumor has it that she slit the throat of the man who tried to touch her.

He's a human genius studying antibodies and contraceptive science.
Kidnapped from his planet eight years ago, he was locked in an underground lab of the breeder planet, where he worked tirelessly to create a contraceptive to free an entire race. 

But the enemy found his lab, and he needs the help of the Pirate Queen to save the species that exiled her, that shunned her for fighting for her right to make choices over her own body.

This book has everything! You have pirates. You have aliens. You have fighting for bodily autonomy. Which honestly hit way too close to home, but it was just fantastical enough to not be Too Real. You also have sex slavery and domestic violence which was ROUGH. 

The Pirate Queen is amazing. She's this larger than life woman, who's fought her way across the galaxy to keep as many of her people safe as possible. She stops off in the Port of Atlantis and runs across an intriguing seeder.

Vahman has been a prisoner for the last eight years. He's gone full on Stockholm Syndrome, which is harsh. But now he's been set loose so that he can try to get his discovery out there. He has to work together with the Pirate Queen to get word of the contraceptive out before the people enslaving her home world sweep it all under the rug. 

Their chemistry is PALPABLE. It is so, so good. But even with their very good chemistry, the most compelling part of this story is definitely the fight to keep interplanetary politics away from this entire species' bodies! Which is a fight that I will always be fully invested in. Read your trigger warnings at the beginning for sure. There are some dark themes like slavery and sex trafficking. But somehow it was also SO VERY empowering. 

Oh, and that epilogue?!?! Miss Ma'am! I clutched my pearls in the best way!

Ratings

Stars: 4/5

Spice: 3/5