I should say first that I am a very fast reader. Books are like water to me. However, when reading Pirates! I had to actually slow myself down so as to savour Minerva and Nancy's travels for as long as possible. Of course I had to begin reading this book in the middle of finals, when it was particularly hard to keep from wondering what was to happen next in the middle of reviewing sexual and asexual reproduction. Pirates! is one of those books where you get to the end but there is no real ending which I both love and hate because it kind of ruins the whole book for you if the end isn't what you'd like it to be and so you can imagine your own. However it can be so very infuriating!!! All in all this is definately a book you should read it you like pirate stories, stories about the time before the twentieth century or just stories about a girl or two who do more than is expected of them -- and do it dressed as men!