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A tale of swashbuckling daredevilment, a good read (TELEGRAPH & ARGUS )
Perez-Reverte is a master at creating a world from the past. (SUNDAY MERCURY )
Perez-Reverte is a master at creating a world from the past. (SUNDAY MERCURY )
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Captain Alatriste returns in a swashbuckling tale of intrigue, romance and regicide.
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I think (and I'm possibly stating the bleeding obvious here) that this book has to be reviewed in the context of the four that have gone before it and those yet to follow. On a stand alone basis the plot isn't the tightest or the character development the most significant, but seen in the broader context it's excellent. The narrative takes forward a story already underway, and encompasses actions already foreseen, as well as introducing new characters and anticipating yet more events to come crucially, in my opinion, the breach between the Captain and one of his former sponsors.
It's more than possible that those who read The Three Musketeers (Wordsworth Classics)in its original format of periodic installments thought the occasional episode in the middle not quite up to snuff. The Vicomte de Bragelonne (Oxford World's Classics) and Louise de La Valliere aren't as well known or highly regarded as the books that start and finish the series, but they are crucial to its development.
When the Alatriste series is finished this will be seen as an essential stage along the way.
It's more than possible that those who read The Three Musketeers (Wordsworth Classics)in its original format of periodic installments thought the occasional episode in the middle not quite up to snuff. The Vicomte de Bragelonne (Oxford World's Classics) and Louise de La Valliere aren't as well known or highly regarded as the books that start and finish the series, but they are crucial to its development.
When the Alatriste series is finished this will be seen as an essential stage along the way.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Arturo Perez-Reverte is back with the latest of his Captain Alatriste swashbucklers to be translated into English, The Man in the Yellow Doublet. This is superb stuff, twirling moustaches, withering scorn, flashing swords, love across social classes, all set in the declining Spain of the 17th century. This is not literature of nuance, but it is exciting, punctuated by sparkling line and verse by the greats of the time: Quevedo, de Vega, Cervantes. The young narrator of the series, Iñigo Balboa, is growing up, as besotted as ever with the beautiful and treacherous Angelica de Alquezar, who has no qualms about loving him at the same time as plotting his and his foster-father Alatriste's demise. Alatriste is the lover of the famed actress Maria de Castro, but the King has his eye on her as well. When the monarch is felled during one tryst with the beauty, Alatriste is fingered as the jealous killer; it later turns out that it was actually the King's double who was murdered. Alatriste then has to investigate the conspiracy that has led him so close to the gallows, and this escapade involves swords and daggers, whispers in the night, and the deaths of old friends. The Spain of Philip IV is a cauldron of competing interests, and mercenaries like Alatriste are mere pawns in a greater game, but true to the genre, the pawns end up saving the day.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Alatriste is caught up in a new love affair with a dangerous woman. But she has another powerful lover: the man in the yellow doublet. Circumstances that others seek to exploit for their own ends - and frame the Captain.
With courtly intrigue, swordfights in moonlit gardens and stabbings in pitchblack alleys, the latest Alatriste novel delivers exactly what the series has always promised, but not always achieved: swashbuckling fun.
With courtly intrigue, swordfights in moonlit gardens and stabbings in pitchblack alleys, the latest Alatriste novel delivers exactly what the series has always promised, but not always achieved: swashbuckling fun.
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It came on time as estimated
The book came in the estimated time and I had no problem at all with my transaction. I shall be back next months for a new purchase.
Published 8 months ago by Reverte77
Disappointed Fan
This latest tale in the Alatriste saga is very disappointing. The plot is very thin. Although the prose itself remains of high quality,the story line ,characters and the final... Read more
Published on 28 Oct 2009 by James Marshall
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