Thank you so much to TBR and Beyond Tours for allowing me to take part in this tour for The Final Curse of Ophelia Cray. I had been so jealous when my friend won a copy off of Goodreads so getting to take part in this tour was thrilling!!!
About The Book:
Author: Christine Calella
Pub. Date: April 9, 2024
Find it: Goodreads
Storms and pirates are nothing compared to the evil within men’s hearts.
After a lifetime of abuse at the hands of superstitious townsfolk, Ophelia Young, a bastard child of the notorious pirate queen, is tired of paying for the sins of her mother. Despite playing by the rules her whole life, she’s earned nothing but spite and suspicion. So when a naval officer saves her from the jeering crowd at her mother’s hanging, Ophelia hatches a new hope of enlisting in the navy to escape her mother’s legacy and redeem her own reputation for good. But Ophelia soon discovers that a life at sea isn’t as honorable as she hoped.
Betsy Young is as different as she could be from her half-sister Ophelia. She’s a nervous homebody who wants to keep her family safe and longs to be in love. So naturally, she’s devastated when the son of their family’s business partner rejects her hand in marriage and her sister joins the navy. But when her father contracts a life-threatening illness as well, Betsy has to bring Ophelia home to save the family business.
Unfortunately for the Young sisters, Betsy trying to get Ophelia recalled reveals that Ophelia enlisted fraudulently under Betsy’s name, a secret which Ophelia struggles to keep from crewmates who would kill her if they knew she was the pirate queen’s daughter. To save Ophelia from the naval authorities, Betsy will have to board a ship during hurricane season and brave all the dangers of the sea to get them both home safe.
Content Warning: hanging, corporal punishments (whipping), strangulation
Review:
I was very excited to get to read wthis book. Every bit of the summary intrigued me and I was curious!!!
It did take me a bit to get invested in the book. That's just the way it is sometimes, not all things are instant clicks. But once I got invested, I was hooked. I needed to know more about these characters and what they were going through. What was their plans. All of that.
I loved Ophelia and Betsy. They were distinctive characters with some of the same traits, but enough personality that they didn't feel stale or like poor copies of each other. They were both really interesting to follow and I loved watching as they encoutnered some of the harsh realities of the paths that they had chosen.
The plot was an interesting one once it picked up steam. There seemed to always be something happening that kept the story chugging along. The action was exciting and the twists and turns were at times expected but were surprises at other times.
15 Reactions While Reading:
Okay...let's see where this is going.
I just really like how people talk in historical/fantasy type books. It just makes my brain happy.
Well...now I'm worried he's going to die.
Eh...f that dude.
I have trust issues with everyone right now haha
Go Betsy!
Love having a crew!
What's happening!?!?!?!?
Ooh tricksy!
10 Dangers of vanity perhaps?
Eww gross.
This is why I don't trust people.
Not expected, but not totally surprising either.
Ooh, that was a nice scene!
That's a nice ending!!
About Christine Calella:
When not writing, Christine Calella spends her spare time singing showtunes in the shower,
drinking more chai lattes than is strictly necessary, and either over- or under-watering an unfortunate string of houseplants named after sitcom characters. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University, and she lives in New York City. As her romance alter ego, Madeline Bell, Christine also pens adult rom-coms with a bookish twist. For more information, check out the Books section, under the “By Madeline Bell” drop-down. You can find her on her Twitter, her website, Instagram, and Goodreads.
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