The Pirate Captain's Daughter

The Mandrake Company Series, Book 6

By: Ruby Lionsdrake

Narrated by: Jill Redfield

Firefighter and mercenary Marat Azarov thinks he’s being noble when he rescues a beautiful slave woman from certain torture.

Alas, she turns out to be more than she appears and does not appreciate his interference. In an attempt to redeem himself - and perhaps win her regard - he concocts a plot that even his grenade-flinging colleague Striker deems unwise. Soon, he’s blowing up androids, being shot at by pirates, and earning the wrath of his own boss, and he’s not even sure if the woman likes him. Some days, it doesn’t pay to be a mercenary.

©2015 Ruby Lionsdrake (P)2021 Podium Audio

love it

I love the story line heroine and the humanity given to our heroes in Ruby's books the narration is perfect for me and the blend of adventure and romance tends to be well balanced. i have to say I enjoy heroines that start and stay savvy, too many adventure romances start the heroines as intelligent and brave degrading them throught the story becoming less comptetent as the story goes. The mandrake company doesn't do this at any time the strenghts of the heroine complimenting and at times drawing out the strengths of the hero and vice versa. good stuff.

Loved it!

I am binge listening to Ruby Lionsdrake’s The Mandrake Company Series. This is a great sci-fi, rom series and Jill Redfield’s narration is great! My only con is I wish there were more books in the series. Starting book of the series immediately. Can’t wait but do not want the series to end.

If you can suspend disbelief and channel Arya

The central premise of an elaborate revenge plot is unbelievable, but once I embraced the eye-roll, I enjoyed the exaggerated Buck Rogers-style storyline of slave girls and and a beyond lecherous pirate captain. This is a cheesier version of Arya from GoT. Still, this could be triggering if you can’t handle r@pe themes.

Thanks to Stryker playing a larger role, the humor is more plentiful. He’s definitely the frat-boy style comic relief as the lovable but crude oaf. More of a novella than a book, this one benefits from the shorter length, giving much better action to romance ratios than the previous books; more action, less romance made for better space opera. There’s really only one quickie at the very end.

Excellent

Great Read! So fun to see how Asimov’s story worked out! Glad you added this book to the series! Thanks

Love Chivalry!

I enjoyed the characters of this particular book in the series. The fact that chivalry was not dead, is a boon! I also enjoyed the camaraderie between the team as a whole. I have thoroughly enjoyed this series and wish it would continue as there are other avenues it could take. I just wish the whole series was on audible as an audiobook. But, I’ve read the ones that are available only as books and listen to the ones available as audiobooks and still thoroughly enjoy the series.