Destiny's Captive

I probably should do a no star review because anyone reading this needs to know 1. romance novels are not my cup of tea 2. this is probably an excellent example of one, and it is MY FAULT for not being able to recognize that.
So, that said, I read this simply because I'm trying to expand my reading by not reading white, male authors. Beverly Jenkins is held up by many fans as a master of her genre, so I picked this one simply because it involved pirates. And....I got through it.
The story came alive for me when I saw how people treated them based simply by the color of their skin. Humans in cattle cars? I wanted to be sick.
Where it failed for me, historically, was in everything else. Nothing is described in detail. I learned NOTHING about the Spanish/Cuban war, ships or gunrunners. I learned nothing about San Francisco in 1887. I mean nothing.
There is a fiercely modern woman (too modern?) and a hero suffering from PTSD (which of course no one understood then). There was many, many happy endings. And a shopping trip. This is fluff I can't get behind in these kinds of novels.
This is a story not about pirates but of a super happy, super successful family. Pull out the sex scenes and it's borderline a children's chapter book.
So, no, I wont be reading anymore romance novels. I've tried, People, I've tried and they just aren't for me.