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|summary=A whopping interactive, evocative, card element makes this just about worth buying – oh yes, and there's also a slight book alongside that, too.
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I've said before now that it strikes me as odd that pirates have hung around so long. You can't blame it all on Johnny Depp either, yet people are still willing to revisit stories of old, pieces of eight, legs of wood and spots of black. Saviour Pirotta offers a four page truncation of [[Silver: Return to Treasure Island by Andrew Motion:|Treasure Island]] in his book here, along with five other short tales from the genre. The others are more original, just as is the bonus element you get when you buy this title…
Well, I say original. Here's one about Davy Jones' locker, here's the one with the feisty woman, here are exotic climes, here's Blackbeard… You don't have to search far to find similar content elsewhere. And, I dare say it, much better written. The balance of the ''Treasure Island'' tale is a little off, and elsewhere they seem to be scene-setting for a page, then a middle for a bit, and a limply-achieved paragraph to end. They're readable, they cover all you need – a simple black and white good versus bad, and a range of different kinds of boat – but that's about it. No attempt is made to really punch out a twist, nowhere does he really evoke piracy (or victimhood) and nothing reaches much in the way of drama.