by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Margaret Sayers Peden
The start of a series following the titular Captain Alatriste, written in the style of a reminiscence by one of his friends.Whilst it's not too bad in getting the flavour of the period across, and setting up the characters and motivations, there's not too much in the way of swashbuckling adventure o...
The start of a series following the titular Captain Alatriste, written in the style of a reminiscence by one of his friends.Whilst it's not too bad in getting the flavour of the period across, and setting up the characters and motivations, there's not too much in the way of swashbuckling adventure o...
I wanted to like this more than I did. It was fine but not quite the swashbuckling adventure I had hoped it would be. Perhaps the storytelling style or the translation didn't do justice to the plot and characters. I'm glad a Goodreads member (Clif Hostetler) wrote about the historical event around w...
This is a pretty short book but my main impression is that it could have been even shorter. It was an interesting look at life in 17th century height-of-its-power Spain but that seemed to be main point of the book. The, while very engaging seemed incidental and only took up a small portion of the b...
The story in this novel takes place in the 17th Century Spain during the reign of Philip IV, the golden age of Spanish power. The plot is based upon an actual historic occurrence in 1623 when the Prince of Wales (Charles Stuart) and George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, traveled incognito to Spa...
This was a very fast and most enjoyable read - and I must compliment the translator, too, because the language seemed to me to work very well, transparently conveying the voice of the narrator without falling nasty literal traps that lesser translations sometimes evince. I have not yet seen the Vigg...
My impression from the little I read was that this was a rather flat and macho type of book. I hear such great things about Perez-Reverte, but I haven't been wowed yet...
This was initially published nearly 10 years ago, but has just been released for the first time in an english-language edition.An intentional homage to Alexandre Dumas, the action takes place in 17th century Spain, centering on the titular 'captain' - a down-on-his luck mercenary swordsman (who may ...
A little less adventurous and more contemplative than I expected, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. I enjoyed it immensely, good to know this genre is still alive. Ripe for an in-depth blog post.
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