Pirate Girls by Penelope Douglas

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Kade and Hunter Caruthers. 

Brothers. Twins. 

My cousins. 

In a way, they’re my family. Protective. Indulgent. My best friends. But there was something else there, too. That ever-present whisper that reminded me more as I got older that we didn’t actually share any blood. 

They used to be inseparable. We all were, but not anymore. I don’t know why Hunter left or why he joined a rival team in Weston—that Rebel town across the river—to stand on the opposite side of the field from his brother, but Kade is out for blood now and Hunter has finally decided to engage. 

Rivalry Week. 

Parades. Parties. Pranks. 

And the Prisoner Exchange. 

Weston will send a hostage to our school, and they’re taking me. I’m Hunter’s for two weeks. In a dilapidated brownstone on a nearly abandoned street with almost no supervision. 

Ten days in an enemy school. Fourteen nights in a town full of bullies with no curfews and no rules. 

And Hunter has no intention of protecting his little cousin anymore. 

The Pirates will come for me. How can they not? A Pirate never sits out on the fun. 

But I never needed protection or rescue, because a Pirate never runs, either.

Pirate Girls

More Fall Away second gen!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🖤💚❤️
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍
Character development: 😔🤓😘😄
Narration: 🎙🎙
Narration Type: Dual Narration

The heroine: Dylan Trent – she is the daughter of Jared and Tatum Trent from Bully. Dylan is a senior in high school and rivalry week is about to start, though it technically lasts two weeks. She races motorcycles, though her parents don’t know about it, and she would like to keep it that way since her father (who owns a cycle racing team), doesn’t want her racing motorcycles. She grew up next door to her Uncle Jax and his wife and kids. Her best friend Aro lives next door as well and dates her cousin Hawke. She grew up in Shelburne Falls whose rivals are Weston. Shelburne Falls is the wealthy suburb, while Weston is inner-city and filled with kids who grew up in rougher situations.

The Heroes: Hunter Caruthers – Hunter goes to Weston while his twin Kade goes to Shelburne Falls. Kade can’t wait to face his brother on the field during rivalry week. They are cousins with Dylan Trent, though they don’t share any blood. The brothers grew up with Dylan, their fathers are stepbrothers and Hunter hasn’t been around since he moved and enrolled in St. Mathew’s, a Weston school. When they were together at Thanksgiving, Hunter wouldn’t even look at Dylan and rarely speaks to his brother Kade.

The Story: The rivalry between the Shelburne Falls Pirates and the Weston Rebels is exciting and crazy and includes a prisoner exchange. Each school sends a prisoner to the rival school for two weeks. Weston wants Dylan as their prisoner and when she finds out they have a motorcycle she can use, she agrees, though they tell them that Hunter left Weston and doesn’t go there anymore, when Kade asks for Hunter in the prisoner exchange. Dylan is the first woman Shelburne Falls traded since the girl that never came home, story was that she was tied up in the trunk of a car that went over a bridge and she drowned.



I liked this story quite a bit, there were definitely a lot of references to the Fall Away series as Dylans parents were a big part of that series. Hunter and Kade’s parents were Madoc and Fallon, so were a part of that same series. Not to mention the prominence of racing which was a huge theme in that series. I loved that series, so I liked all the references.

I also liked this couple, it was so obvious from the beginning that they had been in love with each other for years, but Kade was in the middle of it, which caused issues with both of them. The only thing I didn’t really like is how innocent both of them were. I wish that Hunter would have been a bit more self assured, and it would have been nice if they both were more sexually experienced.

This audiobook was done in dual points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Shiloh James and Axel Bosley. Shiloh has a nice voice which is soft yet clear and is a good narrator, though not one of my favorites, but she definitely sounded age appropriate for this story. Axel Bosley doesn’t sound age appropriate at all. He sounds too old, and his voice isn’t deep like I like male narrators to be. It was extremely annoying.

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