#i will also fistfight oliver bodwen

[sprawca]

Okay, but big, fat glaring issue I noticed with AC: Forsaken (but I don't doubt other AC novels also deal with this): character's literacy.  First of all, what is acknowledged as literacy in these times is the ability to sing your own name. Like, I mean it, as long as you're able to read a few words and sign a document, you'd be considered literate in the reality of the early XVIII-century.

My point is, the fact that Caroline Scott is able to read and write is decently believable, but Edward? I don't doubt he'd learn in the West Indies, from other pirates especially but there's the whole issue of just, being able to write letters like he casually does? Someone who had no formal education, wasn't even able to sign his own name at worst and could read a few passages from the Bible with difficulty at best?

Not to even mention the whole "well-off girl falls for a peasant troublemaker" trope. I get it, it's a cute premise and I do like Caroline, don't get me wrong, but it's just so removed from the historical reality of the times. Edward's backstory could've been written better, to showcase the glaring difference between classes, to further explore his motivations.