Blackbeard's Treasure

Blackbeard's Treasure
by Lizzy Stevens
(3/5 Stars)

This probably would have been many times better if the author had simply slowed down and let the reader catch his/her breath a little. The way it plays out, I felt as if I were watching a movie with the fast forward button on.

Here's how it goes: Cassie drives from San Diego to her grandpa's house in Branson, Missouri because he's dead. (Did she love him? Did she know him? Who knows?!) She's cleaning when a big strong guy named Levi comes over to give her some papers and stuff. She cleans up the attic and finds a journal about the daughter of Edward Teach. Though apparently she's a diver, Cassie knows nothing of pirates, so she doesn't know Edward Teach was the infamous pirate Blackbeard. But Levi knows and tells her that.

Then for no good reason they drive back to San Diego, where Cassie teaches Levi to dive in the ocean. They drive back to Missouri. They track down where Teach was buried. For no good reason Cassie falls and hits her head on a board.

As I said, it's all told in such a rush that there's just no time to get involved with the characters or story.

That is all.