I'm so mad at myself for putting this off as long as I did!!! S.A. Chakraborty always delivers, and Amina Al-Sirafi is her latest masterpiece. Set in and around the Indian Ocean during the Middle Ages, this book is full of a diverse cast of characters; each one is so unique and you can't help but love them. Amina the titular character has to get her pirate gang back together after several years of retirement to find young, kidnapped girl. The getting the gang back together sequences were fun and full of hijinks. I can definitely see this getting an adaptation because it reads like it's on the screen already. 

This blends my two great loves history and pirates, adds a splash of fantasy, and a bunch of the struggles of single motherhood to make the most delectable fantasy book I've read in quite a while. I laughed, I cried, I gasped, and I fell in love with this whole story. I can't wait to see where the gang has to go next. I read it physically while listening to the audio and I definitely recommend. The audio is stunning, but there's something about words on a page telling Amina's story that is so special. 

Read this if you want pirates, a found family gang of misfits, highly researched historical fantasy, single mom's living their best (kind of) life, and fantasy grounded in reality.