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'A beguiling story of excitement and comradesip in the face of danger' (GOOD BOOK GUIDE )
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Captain Alatriste's latest adventure - a story of skirmishes, privateers, boarded ships, swords and sackings.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
How do you write a disappointing swashbuckler about pirates? Sadly, Perez-Reverte's latest tends to show us.
There's plenty of incident and action. Many of the scenes - a desperate attempt by galleys to break through enemy ships, a tense dawn waiting for a chance to ambush English raiders - are well drawn and convey genuine excitement, but too many do not. Even the climactic battle seems a bit half baked, as if the author lost faith in his ability to portray it properly part way through.
More problematic still is the lack of any strong narrative link between its various episodes. Much as The Sun Over Breda suffered from being little more than a collection of anecdotes about the war in Flanders, so this too amounts to little more than a series of events all involving acts of piracy and raiding. It might be appropriate for a tale of picaroons that the story is told in picaresque style, but sadly it reduces it, without anything more, like history, to just one damn thing after another.
I've enjoyed this series, but this book I found hard to finish - other, more tightly written, better books distracted me. That's a shame, because I had had high hopes for this.
Those who have stuck with the series this far are likely to want to read it anyway. For them there is a new character, who seems destined to be permanent part of the continuing stories, and a change in the relationship between Alatriste and Inigo. Those who have not read other episodes would be best advised to start elsewhere.
There's plenty of incident and action. Many of the scenes - a desperate attempt by galleys to break through enemy ships, a tense dawn waiting for a chance to ambush English raiders - are well drawn and convey genuine excitement, but too many do not. Even the climactic battle seems a bit half baked, as if the author lost faith in his ability to portray it properly part way through.
More problematic still is the lack of any strong narrative link between its various episodes. Much as The Sun Over Breda suffered from being little more than a collection of anecdotes about the war in Flanders, so this too amounts to little more than a series of events all involving acts of piracy and raiding. It might be appropriate for a tale of picaroons that the story is told in picaresque style, but sadly it reduces it, without anything more, like history, to just one damn thing after another.
I've enjoyed this series, but this book I found hard to finish - other, more tightly written, better books distracted me. That's a shame, because I had had high hopes for this.
Those who have stuck with the series this far are likely to want to read it anyway. For them there is a new character, who seems destined to be permanent part of the continuing stories, and a change in the relationship between Alatriste and Inigo. Those who have not read other episodes would be best advised to start elsewhere.
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There is no doubt that the narrative of this sixth part in the series is episodic, but that structure suits the stage the series has reached where most characters and their motivations are well known (as indeed are much of their futures). What Perez-Reverte is enabled to do thereby is to concentrate on set piece description and introduce new characters and develop relationships between old ones at a pace that suits him and this reader at least.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
As a long standing fan of Perez Reverte,I find this series of novellas increasingly disappointing. This latest volume has no intrinsic plot of its own but merely continues the saga of Alatriste and his faithful companion through adventures in the Levant. It is as well written as ever but has no real stand- alone value as a novel.It is a series of individual actions which will no doubt eventually end on the field of Rocroi, although at this rate it is likely to be the anniversary of the battle in 2042 by the time we get there. At least the author's hero , Dumas, published his instalments in regular newspapers. Can we not have more substantial chunks of the story in self- standing extracts.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Lots of Swashing and Buckling
I am big fan of Mr.Perez Reverte's Captain Alatriste Novels and this latest installment keeps up the tempo - if like me you've seen the 2006 Film with Viggo Mortenson in the title... Read more
Published 13 months ago by P. Brooks
Best of the series
I bought this for my husband who has read the other books in the series and he thinks this is the best one.
Published 14 months ago by 2under2
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