Vampirates: Demons of the Ocean
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Vampirates: Demons of the Ocean is a novel by Justin Somper about two children who get separated at sea and are picked up by two very different ships.
Justin Somper is started as a children's book publicist and has worked with publishers and authors. Now, he's embarking on his own writing career with the Vampirates sequence. Drawing together the world of pirate history and vampire myth, Justin even had sword-fighting lessons to add realism to the lives of his characters.
Plot introduction
Connor and Grace are twins, recently orphaned after their widowed father’s death. There options are to be adopted by the town’s busybodies or to set sail for new pastures in their father’s last single possession, his sailing boat.Plot summary
The twins set sail, but a vicious storm sees their boat capsize and the twins are separated. Two mysterious ships sail to their "rescue" – each picking up one twin before disappearing into the mist.Connor awakes to find himself on a pirate ship and is soon being trained up with a cutlass. Meanwhile Grace finds herself locked in a darkened room, as the vampirates wait for night to fall and their feasting to begin. Determined to find each other, yet intrigued by their new shipmates.
Characters in \"Vampirates : Demons of the Ocean\"
- Connor Tempest – the fourteen year old orphan, protagonist
- Grace Tempest – also fourteen year old orphan, protagonist and twin sister to Connor
- Lorcan Furey – Grace's rescuer
- Captain of the Vampirates – wears a mask
- Darcy Flotsam – figurehead by day, lively crewmember by night
- Sidorio – rebel crewmember, one to fear
- Cheng Li – Connor's ally or enemy
- Captain Molucco Wrathe – maybe losing control of his own ship
- Bartholomew – Longtime pirate
- Cutlass Cate – she thinks before she fights
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