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Another great tale from Smith continuing the Courtney series effectively.
Err, I don't even know what to say about this book. For starters, I didn't know this wasn't the first book of the saga, so clearly I kind of just jumped in the Courtney's party and was a bit confused. Second, I did not foresee the amount of smut this book runs with. Not bad smut, really, just, woah, caught me by surprise the first few super raunchy scenes. There was one swash buckling battle followed by some raunch for the first hundred pages or so. The characters were pretty shallow as far as c...
This is the first of the Courtney series chronologically (1667) and I loved it. Set in the East African coast during the Anglo Dutch war, I felt like I was lost in an old pirate film with everything that goes with it: tragedy, love stories, murder and manslaughter, villains and heroes.It was refreshing to read another Wilbur Smith Courtney Series again. I found this to be as Historically and Geographically rich, with his classic familiy ties and a cast of believably human characters. The story i...
Rating: 3* of fiveWilbur, Wilbur...yours isn't the stuff of literary legend, but usually you buckle a *mean* swash and cause images of Erroll Flynn to dash around your reader's head (thanks for that, BTW).In this book, Wilbur, you lost your way. I don't expect autheticity of language, and don't even WANT it, in books set in the 17th century. But sometimes I felt I was watching a mini-series dumbed down for a TV audience as I read this installment of the generational saga of the Courteneys. Plent...
At the beginning of the seventeenth century, the small country of The Netherlands spread its sails, to become a major world trade player. With the establishment of the Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, Holland was soon equal with England as king of the seas. This and other internal, external, and political differences lead to a total of six Anglo-Dutch Wars, spanning intermittently between 1652 and 1810. The Second Anglo-Dutch War, from 1665 to 1667 saw an expansion of hostilities far from Eur...
It’s a book about pirates/privateers double-crossing each other, duking it out with each other on land and sea, and doing other fun stuff with healthy doses of kinky boning and horrid violence. What’s not to like?! Seriously though, I was very impressed with my first book of Mr. Smith’s. All of the good stuff that historical fiction lovers like is here; lots of period detail, sightseeing, larger-than-life characters, historical context, and so on and so forth. I guess when it comes to publishing...
I wasn't all that happy with this book. I bought it because I'd read River God a long time ago, and I remembered really loving everything about it. However, here. . .I found myself wondering if I'd been remembering the right author. Another reviewer mentioned that this book came very late in the series and that Mr. Smith could be losing interest in the series, and that may be the case. While there is plenty of action in this story, the characters are often flat, unmotivated, and inconsistent. Th...
