Kidnapped by Pirates ...

ok so I missed yesterday. I have a really good excuse. I got kidnapped by pirates and was being held captive aboard the ship The Black Joke, captained by Rand Morgan.  Think I've gone off the deep end? Naah... I simply had a random thought that from probably my favorite book of all time skitter through my head and I was powerless to resist the call. 

It started innocently enough. I decided to reread Crooked Fang by Carrie Clevenger so I could go play with my TDT (tall dark and toothy) friend, Xan. I have a severe crush on him that I feed through Twitter, and it just seemed like the thing to do. After a couple of chapters I decided to send him and his maker a shout out on Twitter letting them know and the phrase that came to mind was that I was going to grub around in his pia mater. It was all downhill from there because that phrase is from a scene in The Windflower. After I saw the tweet it brought to mind the other book, and I couldn't help but go to that scene ... The next thing I know I'm paging back and being dunked in the sea by Cat and hauled onto a Pirate ship ... not that I fought it too much :D

The Windflower is a book by Sharon and Tom Curtis writing as Laura London. This is probably my favorite book of all time. I've read it literally more than a hundred times since I got it when I was 14 or so. At this point in life this book is simply comfort for me. 

Have you ever read a book and it just hit something inside you so that it totally stuck with you and you find yourself going back to it like an old friend that you seek out when you need comfort, need to reconnect with where you started, or just need to relax and recharge? This is my book. Thankfully I ran up on it in ebook form because my severely tattered paperback copy has been rebound and glued so many times now I'm nearly afraid to open it.

I needed to step away from life for a bit so I allowed myself to be taken. It doesn't matter how many times I read this book I still find myself drawn to it, needing it like a comfy cuddly sweater that you automatically reach for when the weather gets chilly. It may no longer be fashionable but you could really care less because it is what you need at the time. 

Oddly enough, though I adore Devon and Merry, my heart was captured and is still held by Cat. For the most part he is a hard hearted, no bones about it, icicle souled pirate. Until Merry ... then he finds himself in the unenviable position as a captor's assistant/foster parent/Dear Abby for the girl who is more naive about the world and how men and women relate in it than most 10 yr olds. She humanizes him, thaws his soul, and softens his heart. To my mind he's also sexy as hell. 

My other favorite was Raven. He could be just as hard as Cat but his nature is different. He is like the best friend/hot younger brother of best friend that every girl needs. Fiercely loyal to Merry, you can just see that when some woman does catch his eye and his heart, he will move Heaven and Earth to see to her happiness. 

This book is just so sweet and innocent in its way, and especially since I have been battling an ear infection this week, I needed something comfortable and sweet. 
I still think its a crying shame that Cat never got his own book. He more than deserves it.

Now, as soon as I can escape from Regency London, I really must get back to Xan ... that vamp is worth purring over. ;)