BookBrowse Reviews The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye by Briony Cameron

Our titular heroine's story begins in Yáquimo, Santo Domingo. Jacquotte Delahaye is a young mixed race woman, born to a Black Haitian mother and a white French father. After the death of her mother when she is just a child, Jacquotte is taken under the wing of a talented shipwright, where she blossoms into a master in the art of building, repairing, and sailing vessels bound for the Caribbean. Her world is shaken, however, when she discovers her father has been keeping a dark secret about their family's past.

Soon after, her hometown falls victim to a violent coup at the hands of the French, and Jacquotte is forced to seize a ship and flee to open waters with a small ragtag group of friends. Here, she begins an epic adventure that sees her join the crew of Blackhand, a brutal pirate captain. But with all the skills she needs to thrive as a successful pirate in her own right, ...