I picked it up because I liked the cover, to be honest, and because the plot summary was really intriguing.
This is the story of a girl named Saffron Adams, who is actually the 101th reincarnation of Emer Morrisey. See, Emer was born in Ireland in the seventeenth century. When her village was attacked and her parents and brother killed, she was sent to live with her brutish uncle. The only good thing in her childhood was Seanie Carroll, her first and only love. Before she could grow up and marry him, however, her uncle sold her as a wife to a rich man in Paris. Upon her arrival, she runs away and ends up boarding a ship to Tortuga in the Caribbean. From there, she struggles to survive in a world of loveless men, an object among many, no one. But Emer is not one to suffer through a bad situation if she can help it. She escapes once again and becomes a sailor, hidden as a man. Eventually, she becomes one of the most feared pirates of the Caribbean. But she can't escape her past forever. She is eventually cursed to live 100 lives as a dog before she can return to the world as a human.
100 dog lives later, Saffron Adams is growing up in the Middle of Nowhere, Pennsylvania, with all her memories of the last 4 centuries intact.
This was a great book, I couldn't put it down. I read it in two days and loved every second of it. I'm a sucker for pirate stories, I have to admit. It was well written, the plot was really imaginative and I liked how the book starts at the end of Emer's life, then flashes forward to Saffron Adams present day, then back to Emer's childhood, then to Saffron's childhood then back again. It sounds really complicated when I say it like that, but it makes sense in the book.
I would caution the faint of heart though, she was a pirate and has frequent daydreams of mutilating people who annoy her. Also, she was a sold as a prostitute and the book dealt with rape, so keep that in mind.
Other than that, it was really good, I enjoyed it tremendously.
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