The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper

Paperback, 186 pages

English language

Published Oct. 27, 2020 by Queen of Swords Press.

ISBN:
978-1-7325833-8-2
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4 stars (2 reviews)

Dapper. Lesbian. Capybara. Pirate. Cinrak the Dapper is a keeper of secrets, a righter of wrongs, the saltiest capybara on the sea and a rider of both falling stars and a great glass whale. Join her, her beloveds, the rat Queen Orvilia and the marmot diva Loquolchi, lead soprano of the Theatre Rat-oyal, her loyal cabin kit, Benj the chinchilla, and Agnes, last of the great krakens, as they hunt for treasures of all kinds and find adventures beyond their wildest dreams. Let Sir Julius Vogel Award-winning storyteller A.J. Fitzwater take you on a glorious journey about finding yourself, discovering true love and exploring the greatest secrets of the deep. Also, dapperness.

The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper includes seven stories about Cinrak and her crew:

  • “Young Cinrak”
  • “Perfidy at the Felidae Isles
  • “The Wild Ride of the Untamed Stars”
  • “Search for the Heart of the Ocean”
  • “The Hirsute Pursuit” …

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[Adapted from initial review on Goodreads.]

3 stars

This book is cute, fun, silly, whimsical, and full of queer joy, just as advertised.

Unfortunately, it's also confusing and difficult to read, both on a line level and more broadly, for these reasons: - the proofreading feels sloppy, though it's hard to tell just how sloppy, because: - there's a lot of eye dialect. Can't have pirates without eye dialect! This particular pirate dialect feels very homebrew, speaking as someone who isn't a linguist. - there's a lot of maybe-figurative-maybe-not language, with weather phenomena or bits of ships being personified: things that feel like whimsical figures of speech, until the next sentence treats it as actual literal fact. This adds to the fun whimsical feel of the worldbuilding, but also makes it a lot more confusing to know what's actually going on. - it is very difficult to keep track of who is present in a scene and who …

Subjects

  • Fiction, fantasy, general
  • Fiction, short stories (single author)

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