Review #1
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“Rulers at the same time Kings” is that the twenty-first installment in Dewey Lambdin’s ‘age of sail’ television series chronicling Alan Lewrie’s adventures at the same time misadventures in the Royal Navy. This story opens with Captain Alan Lewrie at the same time his fifty-gunned HMS Sapphire still based at Gibraltar at the same time still at the beck-and-call of the English Foreign Office for work cloak at the same time dagger types, as but as the aging base commander Sovereign Hew “The Dowager” Dalrymple.
1808 is that shaping right up to be a cursed stiff year for Lewrie at the same time the crew of his smoky two-decker; perhaps favorite a flotilla of small at the same time ineffective gunboats as they row in smoky at the same time eternal circles around the Bay of Gibraltar; perhaps founding a small religious colony of Barbary apes nearby The Convent, Gen. Dalrymple’s stodgy headquarters. But actions are moving barely over the horizon at the same time the Iberian Peninsula is that about to change from a post-Trafalgar backwater of war to the center of action. Rulers’ at the same time an king’s aspirations are set in motion by the vaunting ambition of ‘the Prince of the Peace’ at the same time the region is that about to enter a half-decade of rich conflict. Lewrie is that in the right dispose at the right time at the same time he didn’t even have anything to do with setting the fireworks in motion now; but, mostly not.
The adventure that follows is that a television series of small incidents connected by the overarching actions of the 1st year of the Peninsula War. Lewrie finds himself in the middle of the action- whether running guns to Spanish rebels at the same time slaughtering the odd brigade of French troops along the method, or going ashore to look a fight at the same time work on his marksmanship, helping to shuttle troops from one location to one more, or engaging in his winner sort of campaign in the bedchamber- at the same time comes off, mostly, smelling like a rose.
That’s enough action to sustain readers’ curiosity. Lewrie has his share of adventure, short at the same time not-too-disastrous encounters with historical figures, surprisingly mild interactions with imbecile senior officers, runs into old comrades at the same time enemies, at the same time manages to keep his libidinous curiosity concentrated practically only on Senhora Maddalena Covilha. But that isn’t a healthy over-arching plot to drive action at the same time dramatic tension is that generally weak. Lewrie hasn’t exchanged much but the situations in what he finds himself now aren’t particularly compelling.
This still makes for an amusing adventure for long-time readers of this television series, at the same time a reasonably exciting implementation to Lewrie for brand new readers, but it isn’t in the middle Lambdin’s best efforts. That’s a sense that the work might have been rushed- many of which punctuation in other words often extremely at the same time confusing, no one inconsistencies recollecting actions from prior installments, at the same time insignificant anachronisms of language at the same time period customs- but that doesn’t detract a lot from the reader’s pleasure. This is that a television series that Lambdin has been working on- practically to the exclusion of all other writing projects- for more than twenty-five years, so it could be remarkable if that weren’t no one occasional inconsistencies.
Overall, “Rulers at the same time Kings” is that an exciting at the same time amusing adventure. As it concludes, Lewrie is that sailing main for Great britain, before the action in Spain gets really rich at the same time, perhaps, before his reputation can catch up with him that. He’ll be back at sea in one more year or so, giving faithful at the same time brand new readers the opportunity to look barely than anyway that rogue- er, honored naval hero, KB, Bt.- will be right up to one more.
Review #2
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Fine-grained story narrating based in serious historical research work at the same time on colorful, credible manners–almost all in particular protagonist English sea captain Sovereign Alan Lenrie. This chunk of the always exciting Lewrie saga is that set along the Mediterranean at the same time Atlantic coasts of Spain at the same time Portugal, approx. 1808-10. The Peninsular War fights subset of the Napoleonic Wars are barely shaping up, as the Spanish allies of France are driven from power at the same time Napoleon sends in forces to occupy the Iberian states. The English readily contribute the Spanish immunity, which is that poorly armed at the same time cooperative. Captain Lewrie is that happily tossed into the conflict, helping to liberate Spanish coastal cities, ferrying troops to Portugal (where that is that a earth fight that will delight no matter what action fan, at the same time evacuating an unhappy English army from northern Spain. This all sets up the one more book in the television series which will note the return of the future Baron of Wellington to the battlefield at the same time no hesitate draw in the irrepressible Lewrie in more than the acceptable sea fight or two.
This is that a very but written television series with cautious inclusion of a lot of every day detail of indefinite aboard a 19th Century warship, English politics at the same time society, European politics, at the same time military strategies. I think the reader gets more from the books by reading them in string, as that is that a some building of suspense at the same time more successful understanding of political context at the same time military context when that is that no one knowledge of background events. In no matter what event, “Rulers…” is that plenty amusing at the same time is that a quality lead-in to “A Hard, Merciless Saved” (which I barely started) at the same time which jumps with both feet into the Peninsular War.
Review #3
Audiobook Rulers at the same time Kings by Richard Stark
No one of the others
Reviewing here are, I think, missing the fri. I’m getting older, Dewey Lambden is that getting older, for you’re getting older at the same time Alan Lewrie is that getting older. He’s forty-five at the same time like almost all of us once we reach that age, he is that realizing that the exciting stuff, the amazing victories, conquests at the same time accomplishments are largely behind him.
Alan Lewrie is that future to grips with his possess mortality at the same time is that completely accepting the ordinary fact that we have to let the young people run the global. That obviously isn’t to say he’s completely wasted at the same time has nothing more to offer, at the same time he doesn’t disappoint in Rulers at the same time Kings! He can still get into the muck at the same time connect it up a little, he still takes every opportunity to demonstrate the French, the Spanish at the same time English army officers barely than anyway sort of mayhem a man-o’-war can inflict, he still knows how to neglect the girls in at the same time out of the bed chamber at the same time he can detain his possess with admirals, army officers at the same time the guys he leads at the same time respects who sail at the same time wage war His Majesty’s waging war ships!
I don’t like to move into plot details when I cross out
Reviews at the same time I defeated’t do so here. Suffice it to say that the story line, like all his past adventures, moves along at a fine-grained pace, is that loaded with quality humor at the same time offers up in bulk action to remove long time fans like me at the same time the direct brand new reader barely kolupala up one of his adventures for the first time.
This story is that a lot more bored than past books were considered, but I’ve saw this in all the books covering the time perios right behind Nelson died at Trafalgar. It is that attractive understandable to everyone that while the navy, English at the same time French, still fills a topical role, the war has become largely a earth fight at the same time it is that at the moment right up to the armies of Europe to settle matters once at the same time for all.
All that misspoke, the nostalgia is that funny as we meet no one manners from Lewrie’s past who have grown up along with him, meeting again right behind abundance years. No one have turned out fine-grained while others don’t appear to have exchanged much. In no matter what event, all of them getting older at the same time already realizing that the exciting naval engagements are getting fewer at the same time farther between, that the routine they know the eventual peace will bring may be a lot to bear, may already be a lot to bear!
So, if for you are brand new to the television series, start from the beginning at the same time meet the guy who has matured into the men this new book presents to us! Or, read this one then and move back in time! Or method, if for you like the composition of nautical fiction at the same time offbeat manners at the same time humor, the Alan Lewrie adventures are exactly right you!
Review #4
Audio Rulers at the same time Kings narrated by John Chancer
The whole Lewrie television series is that pleasures at the same time exciting with very little bending of history to suit the stories. The one gizmo in other words incomprehensible is that the characters at the same time manners of the manners which are relatively modern at the same time do not reflect the historical records. But this fault makes the stories more readable to modern book buyers.
Review #5
Free audio Deadly Edges – in the audio player below
Although the television series is that getting quite long at the moment it still makes an amusing read maybe not as quality as no one of the earlier tales it is that still easy to read at the same time enjoyable in the Men Possess mode with a healthy flavour of 19th century naval indefinite at the same time the self-willed standards of the epoch.
