Curse of Captain LaFoote by Eddie Jones + Review & Giveaway

If you drowned and the sea spit you out, throwing you back into an age of pirates, buried treasure and beauty beyond belief....would you stay?"

I received a free review copy of "The Curse of Captain Lafoote" by Eddie Jones from the Kathy Carton Willis Communication Group.

RICKY BRADSHAW has never sailed the Caribbean Sea, searched for buried treasure or battled pirates on the deck of a Spanish Galleon. He’s never fallen through the floor of Davy Jones’ locker, befriended a witch doctor or watched an old fisherman morph into a porpoise. All Ricky knows is his lonely life with his widowed mom in a tiny apartment overlooking a marina on the Chesapeake Bay.

But all that changes on a snowy Christmas Eve when Ricky’s apartment building burns down and he falls into the chilly waters while trying to save BARNACLE, a mangy mutt with shrimp breath. Suddenly Ricky finds himself confronted by his neighbor, a young woman in a pink bathrobe who jumped to her death in order to escape the flames. She offers him a choice: go with her to a wonderful afterlife where snowflakes taste like candy or return to the dreary old world he knows. Ricky picks the past and awakes on a raft in the middle of the sea where there is surprising beauty on every island, danger around every corner and great honor and glory ahead of him… if only Ricky can summon the courage to survive the curse of Captain LaFoote.

A Teenage boy, time travel, treasure and pirates! What's not to love about those ingredients? Unfortunately, in order to get back to the time of the pirates, the boy has to die, witness a suicide and talk to ghosts. I approached this book expecting one thing and got something completely different.

Personally, this book just didn't live up to my idea of a great pirate adventure. I found it very hard to follow and the story line a little jagged. But many other people have loved it. This one was just not a favorite of mine.

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About the Author:

EDDIE JONES has authored four non-fiction books, one young adult novel, and written over a hundred articles that have appeared in over 20 different publications. He is co-founder of Christian Devotions Ministries and a contributing writer for, CBN.com, Common Ground Christian News, The Ocracoke Observer, and Living Aboard Magazine. He’s a three-time winner of the Delaware Christian Writers Conference and a member of the American Christian Fiction Writers and Boating Writers International. Eddie sails, surfs and writes in North Carolina. For more information see his site here.

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