Since no Table of Contents exists, the majority of Vaughn’s audience will most likely make this discovery only after having completed the story. This particular attempt to impart knowledge fails, however, because the chapters include no explanations of the terms, making the titles meaningless-unless, of course, the reader notes by chance the existence of a Glossary at the end of the book. Fencing commands and moves serve as chapter titles. Descriptions of fencing, ships, sailing, and the historical pirate pepper the work, admittedly adding realism to the tale, but also interrupting the action. Review: Steel strikes one primarily as a not-so-subtle attempt to educate the reader on sundry topics. Jill wants desperately to return home, but a connection between her and the sword means that, to do so, she first must defeat the most dreaded pirate to sail the seas. Summary: During a family vacation in the Bahamas, Jill finds washed up on the beach a piece of an old, rusted rapier that transports her back in time to a pirate ship.
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