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Hostile Shores (2013)

by Dewey Lambdin(Favorite Author)

4 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0312595727 (ISBN13: 9780312595722)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Thomas Dunne Books

series

Alan Lewrie

review 1: Once again Dewey Lambdin proves to me why he is my favorite author. Alan Lewrie is a great character with all his faults, and trust me they are many.I began with Lambdin;s first books back in 1989, The King's Coat and never looked back. Any fan of the late George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman series will feel at home here. You don't have to read this series in order, but I'd say it would good to see the progress of Lewrie as a young man sent to the Royal Navy as a spoiled brat to become a Captain. One couldn't do any better in the Age of Sail than this series. I will continue to read this series and will drop anything else I'm currently reading for the next one.
review 2: I feel a little guilty rating this book only three stars - technically three and a half, rou... morended down to three.I've read every book in Alan Lewrie series. I've followed the man's life from his humble beginnings as a teenage ne'er-do-well who is basically press ganged into the Royal Navy during the American Revolution. I've grown to genuinely like the man, which is a huge compliment to the author. I was eager to read the next chapter in Lewrie's life. So why only three stars?The book feels transitional to me. Lewrie and the HMS Reliant begin the story in the Caribbean, return to London, jaunt down to Cape Town, and then wind up in Argentina. In each place Lewrie spends a little time, has some mild adventures, but nothing really critical happens to him in any given place. The highest drama takes place at the end - a naval battle with a Spanish Frigate off the coast of South America where he gets injured. But even that didn't really feel critical to the story. At the end of the story I felt like this book was a device for transitioning Alan from one place and move him back to Europe. I think the book needed a villain for Lewrie to struggle against. For example, his nemesis, Choundas, from the earlier stories. Choundas is dead now, but maybe Alan needs a new foe?Bottom line, if you've read the earlier books, you will enjoy this one. I did. But in terms of a stand alone story, Hostile Shores was weaker than some of the other Lewrie stories. less

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