Vaughn takes sword fighting seriously it’s not just slashing swords and steel on steel. For me, the sword scenes were the main highlight of the book. STEEL by Carrie Vaughn is a novel full of swordplay and pirates but fails to truly captivate the reader.Īs a former high school fencer, I have to admit that I just loved the fencing and sword-fighting scenes in STEEL by Carrie Vaughn. During a boat ride with her family, a wave pitches Jill into the ocean and she suddenly finds herself transported back into the early 18th century on a ship full of pirates. Intrigued by the blade, Jill pockets it and wonders where it came from. Jill stumbles upon a a broken rusted blade that washed upon the shores of the Bahamas. Time travel just happens and is never really explained.

Would have loved more on Captain Cooper and Edmund Blane felt that Blane was a little flat.

Highlight of the book are definitely the fencing and sword-fighting scenes.Time travel, swordplay, and romance combine in an original high-seas adventure from New York Times bestseller Carrie Vaughn. But a pirate’s life is bloody and brief, and as Jill learns about the dark magic that brought her there, she forms a desperate scheme to get home-one that risks everything in a duel to the death with a villainous pirate captain. Stranded in the past and surrounded by strangers, she is forced to sign on as crew. The broken tip holds secrets, though, and it transports Jill through time to the deck of a pirate ship.

When she finds a corroded sword piece on a Caribbean beach, she is instantly intrigued and pockets it as her own personal treasure. Sixteen-year-old Jill has fought in dozens of fencing tournaments, but she has never held a sharpened blade. A thousand people would step over it and think it trash, but not her. Publication Date: March 1st 2011 by HarperTeenīook Summary: It was a slender length of rusted steel, tapered to a point at one end and jagged at the other, as if it had broken.

Steel by carrie vaughn