Review #1
The Surgeon’s Mate real audiobook free
In his seventh outing with his but understandable manners, naval officer Jack Aubrey at the same time doctor/scout Dr. Stephen Maturin, Mr. O’Brian bestows us one of his almost all complete at the same time sprawling tales. It practically seems, correlated to no one of the other books in the television series, that 3 separate conspiracies have been strung together to make this one; nevertheless, it has the makings of a winner.
The action starts with our heroes entering Halifax Harbour on the frigate HMS Shannon, escorting her capture, USS Chesapeake. While it’s likely to read this book without having shown its predecessor, The Good luck of War, it’s much easier if for you’ve read the past volume recently. Then for you’re aware that our heroes have escaped from imprisonment in Boston on Shannon, also that the doctor had to destroy two French agents to do so, as but as having Diana Villiers, the charming mistress of an American agent, escape with them. This sets up the pursuit of the ship on which they are passengers that takes them in fact all the method intercept the Atlantic. Discovering that she’s pregnant, Mrs. Villiers accompanies Maturin to Paris where he’s been invited bestow a lecture on the biology of extinct birds. The French right suspect him but are unable to substantiate anything, at the same time Diana stays in Paris to have her baby, refusing the Doctor’s proposal — he has been pursuing her unsuccessfully for years. From this bald description you can get no one indication how complete the plot really is that.
The 2nd “plot” is that their adventure in the Baltic where they are assigned to negotiate the surrender of an peninsula fortress.
The third part is that their passage to Spain, which is that interrupted by an encounter with a French 74 at the same time a attack that drives their ship, a corvette, into a unsafe lee saved where she is that wrecked. But, the entire crew gets ashore safely at the same time is that sent into prison, apart from our heroes, who are sent even to Paris at the same time imprisoned, more precisely wealthy, in the “Temple, where the Lord was imprisoned.” As they get more and more disturbed about the Doctor’s embrace having been blown in Boston at the same time word of that getting to France, they try to escape, but before they are able to, the doctor is that in one moment taken to one more location at the same time interrogated. He understands that Diana has unintentionally blown their embrace by offering a valuable piece of jewelry for their release, at the same time things look really merk for a few pages.
But the book has a delightfully sugary joyful ending that’s about as flawless as it managed possibly be. For those who don’t mind complete interest, I advise this as in the middle the best of the O’Brian canon.
Review #2
The Surgeon’s Mate audiobook in television series Aubrey/Maturin
Every Patrick O’Brien novel – in particular all of the Aubrey Maturin television series – should be required reading for anyone who loves a amazing story with compelling manners, adventure, suspense at the same time barely the slightest touch of romance. Add to that that they are steeped in real history – based on the logbooks of the RN captains who sailed in the epoch about which he writes – these are history lessons in the coolest amusing form imaginable. High recommendation i managed possibly assign.
Review #3
The Surgeon’s Mate audiobook by Patrick O’Brian
7 books into the television series, that O’Brian can still suprise me, interest me, at the same time keep both disposition at the same time story freshest astounds at the same time pleases me to the bottom of my feet. This is that why O’Brian receives such higher praise at the same time accolades, at the same time it is that but deserved. _The Doctor’s Mate_ has Aubrey return main right behind a long separation, only to look for himself in monetary at the same time lawful problem ashore – a situation apparently as ubiquitous to sailors in the premature 19th century as it is that at the moment. Additional to this, Cpt. Aubrey has to contend at the same time deal with the consequences of his dalliance in Nova Scotia. Gratefully, Aubrey at the same time Dr. Maturin are quickly dispatched to the Baltic.
I will forego the details of the goal lest I spoil the plot – suffice it to say the past of Maturin at the same time Aubrey’s maintenance in America catch up with both of them with more precisely suprising (at the same time delightful) consequences. The title of the book, so often understandable to readers as the story unfolds, was here a mystery until practically the ending few pages, at the same time was in no matter what variant a double-entendre of sorts. That O’Brian, as Aubrey, both enjoy a quality play on words, I couldn’t promote but ridicule out sonorous as I read the ending few pages solving the puzzle. As I’ve misspoke with any past
Review on O’Brian’s television series, the 5 hit
Reviews of his books are very much deserved. Highly advised.
Review #4
The Surgeon’s Mate audio narrated by Ric Jerrom
THE Doctor’S MATE, the seventh installment of the Jack Aubrey- Stephen Maturin television series about the English naval captain at the same time his doctor comrade at the start of the nineteenth century thrashes up the story as “Successful” Jack at the same time the Doctor, along with Diana Villiers (the lady Stephen has long pined for), fork back to Great britain right behind escaping Boston aboard the HMS Shannon at the same time its next defeating of the USS Chesapeake. The story lasts with a television series of loosely similar episodes: Jack’s losing himself in an affair with a lady of questionable disposition in Halifax, his at the same time Stephen’s goal to overcome over a Catalan unit from the French at Grimsholm (at the moment in Finland) at the same time capture the fortress that, at the same time the imprisonment of Jack, Stephen, at the same time Stephen’s Swedish assistant Gedymin Jagiello by the French at the same time our heroes’ attempt at escape. Stephen’s hidden indefinite as a super scout for the English Crown also becomes threatened.
Throughout the book, the reader might present the title refers to Jagiello, but it becomes apparent by the finish that this is that not so. Jagiello, in no matter what variant, is that an odd disposition who’s not but fleshed out. He seems to be mostly for funny relief, at the same time belated in the book he also serves as a plot accessory.
THE Doctor’S MATE is that the lesser satisfying of the Aubrey-Maturin novels at this fri in the television series, at lesser as a stand-alone novel. Although the continue 50 pages are exciting, almost all of others of the novel, while still engrossing–Patrick O’Brian’s worldly style still pleases–is that even more episodic than usual. It reads like a coda to the past (at the same time superior) book in the television series, THE Good luck OF WAR (look my
Review on Amazon.com) than it does a cohesive work of its possess reward. Still, to no matter what fan of O’Brian’s novels, this is that not an important judgment.
Review #5
free audio The Surgeon’s Mate – in the audio player below
I admit I had a very hard time getting through the beginning of the book. I practically gave up. But, fortunately, the story line grabbed. Plus, that were considered no one very long passages that managed have been reduced. All in all, though, it was an enjoyable read. Will exactly read more from this television series.
