Steel
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · March 15, 2011
A Fantasy pick for readers exploring Steel.
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- Who it’s for
- Fencing, pirates, time travel, and romance make for a sharp-edged high-seas adventure.
- Themes
- Time travel, Piracy, Swordplay and romance
- Pacing
- Fast
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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. A thousand people would step over it and think it trash, but not her. This was the tip of a rapier. Sixteen-year-old Jill has fought in dozens of fencing tournaments, but she has never held a sharpened blade. When she finds a corroded sword piece on a Caribbean beach, she is instantly intrigued and pockets it as her own personal treasure.
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The broken tip holds secrets, though, and it transports Jill through time to the deck of a pirate ship. Stranded in the past and surrounded by strangers, she is forced to sign on as crew. 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. Time travel, swordplay, and romance combine in an original high-seas adventure from New York Times bestseller Carrie Vaughn.
A Cut Through Time
Fencing, pirates, time travel, and romance make for a sharp-edged high-seas adventure.
Come here for
- Swordplay with a time-travel twist
- A perilous pirate world and a duel to the death
Expect
- A young fencer facing a sharpened blade for the first time
- Dark magic, romance, and a risky bid to get home
Where it sits
| Time Travel Fiction | 76% |
|---|---|
| YA Pirate Adventures | 51% |
| YA Fantasy | 44% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- YA Pirate Adventures
- Coming of Age
- YA Fantasy
- Contemporary YA Fantasy
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- Historical YA Fantasy
- YA Fantasy Romance
- YA Stories About Girls & Women
- Historical YA
- Authors
- Carrie Vaughn
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- March 15, 2011
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Time travel · Piracy · Swordplay and romance
- Reading lane
- YA Pirate Adventures