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Devil and the Deep Blue Sea – Johanna Craven
From the first line, Craven’s voice grabbed me and took me to the 17th century. I was enchanted by the setting and the author’s impeccable writing. I LOVE that she’s used present perfect in an historical. It takes the reader straight into the immediacy of the past. A bold decision that’s paid off. This is the best of Johanna Craven so far. I can’t say enough without quoting line after line in the book that blew me away.
The characters jump off the page as much as the prose. Catherine has stowed away on the Atlantis, a pirate ship thinking it is an English Merchant. Captain could have legally thrown her overboard, but he doesn’t, still, he is a decent man, she believes, until she overhears him say she may be useful when the time comes. What lies in store for her?
The exotic and mysterious Serephine, disguised as a boy, is magical and enchanting, has been on the pirate ship for 5 years and longs like the crew to go home to Port Royal, for reasons that compel the entire story.
The images are raw and visceral: “She walked back along Rue Saint-Denis where she had traveled so often by coach, her skirts trailing through mud and fish scales. Meat vendors hollered. Milliners waved feathered hats in front of her face. Parrots shrieked and thrashed against their cages, the reds and yellows of their wings bright against the damp, grey city.” The reader is at once fascinated and horrified.
“Fish with silver wings shoot from the sea like firecrackers.”
Once again, Johanna Craven gives us the bountiful gift of her imagination and intellect. This book is bound to be a classic.


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The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea edition by Johanna Craven Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews

A tense adventure on the high seas, packed with back-stabbing intrigue, a delusional captain, and not one, but two strangely gifted women on board a seventeenth century pirate ship. In "The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea," the author brings to life what it must’ve been like on board a vessel sailing across the Atlantic in the late 1600s. We get a peek into the psyches of each of the main characters as the fast-paced story unfolds. The brutality you’d expect aboard a pirate ship is there, but there’s also a good deal of soul searching as the characters struggle to justify their actions, and a romantic thread to the story that I enjoyed as well. The novel wraps up with a galloping crescendo of a climax that left me breathless by the time I reached the last page.
I enjoyed this historical adventure set in the Caribbean Seas. As with anything to do with the Caribbean Seas in the period in which this book is set, 1600s, there’s a lot of fighting, pirating, and what have you. The author spares no detail, the description of the ship is down to the last tiny detail and even the behaviors of the captain and crew, and how they interact with each other are captured true to the period. There are women and their roles in the swashbuckling adventure that will have the reader holding on to his/her whip, in retaliatory anger. I had a bit of a problem with Serafine’s lot and was torn between pulling for her or pulling Catherine. In the end I chose neither, they were both memorable characters. This story had me by the throat. Great story telling!
What a talented writer I have discovered. A thoroughly clever and inventive tale with beautifully imagined settings and significantly, believable characters that you can connect with. I went with 4 rather than 5 stars on this for only one reason and it is a personal preference which is books written in the present tense always slightly rankle with me. That being said in this instance the skill of the writer largely overcame this very personal critique for me and in the grand scheme of things I have to say this is actually one of the more enjoyable books that I have read this year and I read a lot. Slick, superb pacing, entertaining plotlines and expertly drawn characters, bring the past alive in the hands of a writer I shall definitely return to. Bravo, you should read this one.
In “The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea,” Johanna Craven creates a cast (or crew) of memorable, complex characters who bring alive real, and realistic, events of 17th century seafaring, war faring, thieving, slaving, and love seeking. Her characters sail us intimately into a long-ago disaster that 21st century readers can relate to after watching so many modern-day disasters unfold on our video screens large and small. Despite the centuries-old setting, Craven’s suspenseful story draws us in -- reminding us of humankind’s eternal capacity to fear one another, hate one another, and try to dominate one another. And it dives into the mysteries of spirituality, then and now. It seems to me that Craven’s characters raise eternal questions, but refuse to provide The Answers. We, the readers of this compelling novel, must wrestle with the answering. It’s well worth the effort.
I totally loved this book. It's rare to find a book written in present perspective, and I'll be honest here - when I began the first few pages I wasn't sure this book was for me, but that quickly changed. As a reader you soon find yourself watching the story unfold like a movie. It's not a case of turning the page to find out what happened next, but to find out what happens now. The book is beautifully written and the story is compelling, and the characters real. You can taste the salt, feel the spray of the sea, hear the creak of the ship, and understand what drives each character. Johanna clearly has a mastery of her subject too, the history, the fashion, and the attitudes of the time are very well presented. The descriptions are visceral, raw, emotive. I love to re-read books, but this the first time I've read a novel, got to the end, and started it again for a second time. Loved it!
I so enjoyed this historical fiction story, set on the high seas.

I was wonderfully suspenseful, with twists, intrigue and action that flowed very well throughout.

A ship, its crew, its captain, and two very interesting stowaways were brilliantly described by the author, and although their full raison d'etre isn't revealed straight away, the story of the ship and of the characters on it, comes to life on every page and makes this an "unputdownable" book.
Devil and the Deep Blue Sea – Johanna Craven
From the first line, Craven’s voice grabbed me and took me to the 17th century. I was enchanted by the setting and the author’s impeccable writing. I LOVE that she’s used present perfect in an historical. It takes the reader straight into the immediacy of the past. A bold decision that’s paid off. This is the best of Johanna Craven so far. I can’t say enough without quoting line after line in the book that blew me away.
The characters jump off the page as much as the prose. Catherine has stowed away on the Atlantis, a pirate ship thinking it is an English Merchant. Captain could have legally thrown her overboard, but he doesn’t, still, he is a decent man, she believes, until she overhears him say she may be useful when the time comes. What lies in store for her?
The exotic and mysterious Serephine, disguised as a boy, is magical and enchanting, has been on the pirate ship for 5 years and longs like the crew to go home to Port Royal, for reasons that compel the entire story.
The images are raw and visceral “She walked back along Rue Saint-Denis where she had traveled so often by coach, her skirts trailing through mud and fish scales. Meat vendors hollered. Milliners waved feathered hats in front of her face. Parrots shrieked and thrashed against their cages, the reds and yellows of their wings bright against the damp, grey city.” The reader is at once fascinated and horrified.
“Fish with silver wings shoot from the sea like firecrackers.”
Once again, Johanna Craven gives us the bountiful gift of her imagination and intellect. This book is bound to be a classic.