This book, I don't know what to say about this book. It wasn't blow-my-mind, but it also wasn't bad. It was okay, just okay.

The characters are really what drove the story. Amaya was not the most interesting. I really did enjoy reading about Cayo and his life. I really didn't care about Amaya. I really, really, really wish we could have seen more or Romora. She is such a badass female character, without having to be masculine. She uses her femininity as power, which I am game for.

Within the first few chapters of the book there is this three month jump, from when Amaya had escaped the ship to when she became the Countess. It was very sudden and it confused me. It was very very random. I wish it could have been explained earlier.

To be honest, I really didn't connect with the plot. The counterfeit money, casinos, gangs, etc, was not my jam. It felt so strange and disconnected when it was paired with a plot that is very ocean centered. It just felt... off.

This book is advertised as being a swashbuckling filled retelling of the Count of Monte Cristo. I can't judge the book on its retelling because I don't know the story of the Count of Monte Cristo. But, there was only one three paragraph scene of sword fighting, and it wasn't even that great.. the writing was flowery and it didn't suit the time for action.

The betrayal at the end of this book, I saw it from the beginning. And it is very sad when I see the shock of the finale in the beginning. The ending was so predictable, it didn't shock me at all. I was quite disappointed.

Here's the tea: I don't like it when in the middle of the book, there is pretty much only romance scenes. It makes things boring and that's exactly what happened here. I didn't care for Cayo and Amaya together. Like many things in this story, they didn't seem to fit either. It was like the author put in a romance when there didn't need to be one. She just did it for the sake of doing it.