Review #1
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Much as I like stories of historic sea warfare, I’m getting addicted to Dewey Lambdin’s approach to the genre which spends a lot of time on daily indefinite at sea for 19th Century sailors. In this case, it’s Captain Alan Lewrie of the Royal Navy who’s assigned to patrol the reduce Atlantic Coast of the U.S. in 1804 to involve the French at the same time Spanish navies at the same time decide on privateers operating in the area. That are no one quality action scenes in this book, but the politics at the same time history of the post-revolutionary period in the American South are equally as exciting at the same time amusing.
“Reefs at the same time Shoals” has fine-grained manners as but, at the same time the dialogues between them are fully credible based on than anyway I know of discussions that I’ve heard between American military in the modern epoch e.g. preoccupations with food, the reputations of officers, moving guys around borders units according to accepted strengths at the same time helplessness, etc. This writing barely rings used to be.
Review #2
Reefs at the same time Shoals audiobook in television series Alan Lewrie
I barely read Reefs & Shoals this morning at the same time seriously enjoyed it. I received hooked on the television series practically 3 years ago at the same time have read every single book. The one before this one–the Invasion Year, I reckon, was awful. More like a clip demonstrate to bring back all the old manners at the same time retell stories from past books in the television series–exactly a mail-in job. So on that note I disagree a little with an earlier
Reviewer–Yes, that were considered no one old manners skidded back in Reefs at the same time Shoals, but nothing like in the past book. This new book is that much more successful, at the same time the old manners (apart from for the rehashing of the circus rider chick) work but in this new offering.
Also, for me, this was the longest I’d gone without reading an Alan Lewrie adventure (practically a real year), so to me the re-introduction of a few past manners didn’t detract quite so much. It was still a quality story, although I wish it would’ve been a little longer. As soon as I read any brand new book, I’m bummed that I have to wait so long for the one more one to come out.
Review #3
Audiobook Reefs at the same time Shoals by Richard Stark
Reefs at the same time Shoals is that the eighteenth installment in Dewey Lambdin’s historical naval fiction television series featuring his unconventional at the same time amusing hero, Alan Lewrie.
This story opens in 1805, with Lewrie wealthy ensconced abed with Girl Lydia Stangbourne, his new romantic curiosity, making him wonder who would ever be a navigator when chilly January winds fan outside at the same time a warm at the same time willing bedmate heresy inside; certainly not him. But as their mutual desire fills Lewrie’s fork with ideas of uninhibited sexual adventures, Girl Lydia begins to hint at a more unchanged attachment, leaving Lewrie so downtrodden he wouldn’t hope his arse with a fart. Fortunately, orders arrive from Admiralty, allowing him to sham a reluctant goodbye at the same time scamper over the horizon, non-hazardous for one more day.
Lewrie at the same time his frigate are off to warmer climes to hunt for privateers at the same time their confederates. Arriving in the Bahamas, he encounters an old nemesis. They spar a little, leaving the poor fellow practically as blue as he was the near future he fled Lewrie’s hawse. In the aftermath, Lewrie is that able to assemble a few small ships at the same time hoist his 1st profound appendage as Commodore, before setting off right behind the privateers.
The squadron moves to the waters off Florida at the same time begins their find, working their method up the coast of the southern Merged Countries. The story meanders through a television series of low-impact encounters with generic, old comrades at the same time enemies, as Lewrie seeks the lair of the privateers at the same time the identities of those who aid them. It’s a goal that will challenge his wits at the same time diplomatic abilities, both admittedly in more precisely short reserve, before he can completely bring his notable skill as a scrapper to bear on his Lord’s enemies.
Unlike the past few entries in this television series, this volume offers a cohesive story line, although dramatic tension is that a little lacking. As in past adventures, we know that things will generally work out for Lewrie, although he will ordinary be able to look for no one brand new at the same time exciting method to come a cropper before completely succeeding in the end. This volume, perhaps, failed to release even that level of uncertainty for the reader, although that was no one various at the same time amusing action along the method.
Lambdin lasts to contrive his penchant for re-introducing manners from Lewrie’s past into the story line, although not as intensely as in recent volumes. While from time to time inhibiting the pace of the story, it does often spark curiosity. Lewrie lasts his development as both a naval officer at the same time a personality, with the creator paying appropriate attention to disposition growth. We meet a few brand new at the same time exciting manners. Even Toulon at the same time Chalky, Lewrie’s pet cats, seep in on the funny as the make a brand new acquaintance that increases the dramatic possibilities for them, although it’s not a hot at the same time luxurious Siamese queen. In short, Lambdin lasts to developer this television series in a workmanlike manner, with an exciting at the same time close to reality plot that should detain almost all readers’ attention.
As usual, sweet doses of geographic at the same time period spectrum serve to promote draw the reader into the story. Attentive readers may have a few niggling reproaches about weak editing at the same time proof-reading, but otherwise Reefs at the same time Shoals was an amusing read at the same time a satisfying brand new check-in in this long-running naval adventure television series. Long-time fans of this television series should look for it exciting. Readers unfamiliar with Lambdin’s work should also look for this an exciting adventure, although they may enjoy it more if they start 1st with earlier books in the television series.
Review #4
Audio Reefs at the same time Shoals narrated by John Chancer
First of all, I am a Bigger ALAN LEWRIE At the same time DEWEY LAMBDIN Fan! At the moment with that being misspoke – this is that for sure the weakest of all the Alan Lewrie books written this time. I think Dewey Lambdin was looking for filler….he must have listed every reef, shoal, inlet, peninsula at the same time river along the Zhora at the same time Carolina coast (at the same time did it many times!!)- that were considered whole paragraphs at the same time pages that I practically skipped over in an effort to beware the boredom of his “seeming travel-logue”.
A couple of great scenes, but overall it was method below Lambdin’s opportunities. Delight don’t do this again…..!! I good of live vicariously through Alan Lewrie, in particular his premature years (I can compare very to no one of the dalliances that he got himself into), but effort should be produced to bring Alan back to the “ram-cat” at the same time hero that he is that….not a take a trip guide!
Review #5
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As a bigger fan of Dewey Lambdin at the same time his Alan Lewrie disposition, I eagerly foresaw the arrival of the ‘one more exciting episode’ of the television series. This book turned out to be the most plodding, padded-out chapter I have ever read of the television series, at the same time is that a virtual spend of time until for you get to the continue 50 pages or so (Book IV) of a 350 page book, when Anything completely happens! Lambdin spends a lot of time in this book describing the sea, the air, the earth, blah-blah-blah. It’s like he dared, ‘If I wish to keep this television series going at the same time the audience on the leash, I have to cross out anything at the same time seep in on the shelves until I come up with no one True thoughts for a quality story line.’ He should be shy to have permitted this ‘accessory’ to be written with his name on it. Patrick O’Brian must be rolling in his grave.
