The Pirate Queen: A Review

The Pirate Queen
A Novel
By Patricia Hickman

Saphora Warren and her plastic surgeon husband live an idyllic life that most would envy. In fact, the book starts on their front lawn with Saphora hosting a garden party for a Southern Living Magazine cover shoot. But, all that she can think about is executing her well laid plan to leave her husband and her life, to escape to their summer home in Oriental.
She was on her way out the door and out of his life, when Bender Warren comes home and tells her that he has terminal cancer. He then announces that he wants to go to their home in Oriental to fight the disease. So, with her head spinning, she acquiesces to his request and takes him to Oriental.

My favorite character is a little boy named Tobias. He is a sweet, old soul with wisdom beyond his years. A sickly child with a strict regimen of meds, and rejected by most. He maintained an unworldly attitude through it all. I think Saphora learned alot about love from watching Tobias live.

Saphora is struggling with her husbands infidelity through the years and caring for him at the same time. All in all she handles herself with grace and dignity. She is struggling with her desire to just be alone with her thoughts, like her original plan. When she finally finds that quiet, she despises it. She is struggling to remember why she fell in love with Bender Warren, and when she had just became an accessory to hang on his arm. Finally she is searching to find God in all this mess.
This is a story of love and finding a way to forgiveness in more than one way.
This story has many different branches, but it is all brought together in the end. I would recommend this book to my friends.

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Disclaimer: I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review.