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Dangercide: Pirate Detective Kindle Edition

by Jerrie Hardie (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Not a typical case, but nothing remarkable — a man’s dead and his widow doesn’t think it was an accident. Dangercide didn’t get around to much work on the case last week — or the week before — or the week before that — but he’s feeling much more motivated today, and with only two weeks until the coroner’s inquest, he’d better not get caught up in the riots, get arrested for arson, or catch leprosy, if he’s going to solve the case in time. Dangercide: Pirate Detective is a humorous full-length novel of 90,000 words, set in England and thus written with British spelling and usage, plus a few British swearwords.

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August 19, 2016
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01JC5LJ9Y
Publisher ‏ : ‎ (August 19, 2016)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 19, 2016
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 801 KB
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Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 324 pages

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Pam

I'm honestly not sure I like it but it was entertaining

Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2017

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I must admit I was surprised. I thought all sorts of things about the main character and none of them were right except his level of crazy.
I'm honestly not sure I like it but it was entertaining.

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Steve G

I enjoyed this light-hearted mystery

Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2016

I enjoyed this light-hearted mystery, the first in a series. The protagonist, a private detective, is not a sympathetic character but is quirky enough to make the book fun to read. It was also interesting to be privy to the detective's inner thoughts. The story is well-paced and the action scenes are vivid. There is considerable humor, a lot of it revolving around Dangercide’s business cards. It’s a running gag but very well done. I found the ending a little disappointing, but not because it wasn’t well written. It was well-written, I just didn’t agree with author Jerrie Hardie’s choice. But that is a personal preference and it shouldn’t discourage anyone from picking up the book.
Disclosure: I received this book free from the author in exchange for an honest review.

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Wendy's Mom

A bit disappointing...

Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2016

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The writing is clean and I have loved books by this author in the past. But, this one I had a really hard time getting into. In fact, I have not yet finished, put it down to read others on my list. This was not the same style of writing as I found in the Cloven-hoof series. I found the main character a bit annoying and not that funny. I wanted to like it, really I did.

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Brett

Yarrggh...there be no pirates here!

Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2016

I was contacted by the author and offered a chance to read and review this book based on my praise for Terry Pratchett's Thud. I eagerly agreed to read a novel with the word "pirate" in its title. Add in the author's own description of this book as "a humorous full-length novel of 90,000 words, set in England and thus written with British spelling and usage, plus a few British swearwords," and I was very intrigued. I'm a fan of both pirates and the humorous fiction of the aforementioned Sir Terry, Douglas Adams, and (though generally less humorous) Neil Gaiman.

As far as the swear words go, there weren't a whole lot of them, but those that there were...seemed incongruous with everything else going on. They just seemed unnecessary.

I didn't love Dangercide and found the abhorrent primary character's passage through his life to be disjointed and confusing. The characters who surround him are amorphous blobs who sometimes interact with him directly, and are often mentioned with no clear indication for why they're significant to the storyline. I doubt I could even describe Dangercide physically with any accuracy. The narrator pays very little attention to people, unless Dangercide is focusing his loathing their way. Dangercide's choppy inner-thoughts come fast and furious in the early chapters of the book. They never stop, but they're especially frequent (and distracting) in the earlier chapters.

In the early chapters of the book, I imagined Dangercide to be similar to Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective - brilliant, scattered, and maybe a little bit lazy and slightly dishonest, but generally a good person. But as the character of Dangercide revealed itself, he had all of Dirk's character flaws and none of his strengths. In fact, I'd describe Dangercide as a sociopath with no admirable characteristics I could name. If that's the type of book you're into, then this will be right up your alley.

One thing I will admit is that I didn't see the ending coming. Also, the pace of the story did pick up for me as it reached its unexpected conclusion.

So...in conclusion, not horrible (at least it was well-edited), but not a book I'm likely to ever re-read.

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Mike T.

A new author (to me anyway) and a great story!

Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2016

I received a free copy of this book in order to provide an honest review.

I read this book, after putting it off fora couple of weeks, in just two sittings. I really enjoyed it! I won't give a plot synopsis as that is listed here anyway. I will say that this book came as a surprise to me. Too many books rely on neat ideas without development of characters.
Well, this one has a cool premise and it also has some great characters that are put into interesting situations. The pacing is quick and the story is great. I recommend this book to anyone who has a love of reading and a desire to read something that is better than the average book found in the Kindle store.

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Lar

Sorry, was free and overpriced.

Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2016

The main character is an amalgam of all the least respectable thoughts that we would ever have had. I kept hoping for some redeeming feature, or a history that would allow a shred of empathy. I was kinda hoping that his back story would be revealed... How he was betrayed and shot in the head while trying to save the world... to explain why the other characters didn't just smother him like he deserved. Maybe even a Truman Show with a revolting toad instead of the likable guy... There was nothing.
A completely unpleasant read to me.

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