Piratica III: The Family Sea
core novel 2007 Piratica
Record
| First published | 2007 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.13 (164 ratings, collected 2026-10-04) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781473206342 |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
Eighteen months on, the government has suppressed the piratomania that once made Art Blastside a national heroine, and she and Felix are evicted from their cliff-top mansion. The return of her old shipmate Ebad with the rebuilt and improved Unwelcome Stranger is all the excuse Art needs: she regroups her ragtag crew of actors turned sailors and sails once more across the oceans, through wild weather, bizarre places and riotous sea battles, back toward the Treasured Isle. There she means to learn the ultimate secret behind the treasure, the reason for the pirate Golden Goliath's old hatred of her mother Molly, and the mystery that shadows her own life: why she cannot love her child. The third and last of the Piratica novels, it carries the series to a close that is realistic rather than happily ever after.
Where it sits
- Universe: Piratica
- Series: Piratica core; position 3 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Tanith Lee
Notes
- From the series record (Piratica): Tanith Lee's young-adult pirate trilogy set in a parallel 1800s in which England is a republic, following Art Blastside, the actress's daughter who makes herself the real pirate queen her mother only played on stage.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Piratica: position 3 of 3: previous Piratica II: Return to Parrot Island (2006)
Sources
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