Dudley Pope, Ramage at Trafalgar
Nov. 3rd, 2009 10:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellarienAntepenultimate(I love that word; I remember my father teaching it to me in my grandmother's back yard when I was eight or nine. Meeting it on the web the other day in the context of the new WOT book was like running into an old friend I hadn't seen in years.) volume of the series about a wily, nobly-born sea-captain and his frigate and crew, finding fame and fortune in the Napoleonic wars with the help of a lot of luck/authorial fiat.
Does exactly what it says in the can, though it takes a while to get there, including a meeting with Nelson at his London house and a blockade that seems in retrospect to have gone on for several chapters. Despite the oft-repeated refrain, "Frigates don't fight in line of battle," Our Hero still manages to steal a bit of the action in the big event.
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More action and less obvious research-dumps than some in the series; enjoyable, but not recommended as a standalone for those not familiar with the earlier books.
Does exactly what it says in the can, though it takes a while to get there, including a meeting with Nelson at his London house and a blockade that seems in retrospect to have gone on for several chapters. Despite the oft-repeated refrain, "Frigates don't fight in line of battle," Our Hero still manages to steal a bit of the action in the big event.
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More action and less obvious research-dumps than some in the series; enjoyable, but not recommended as a standalone for those not familiar with the earlier books.
