Captain Alatriste (Capitan Alatriste Series #1)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780641792533 (0641792530)
Publish date: May 5th 2005
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
Series: Adventures of Captain Alatriste (#1)
I generally review books in the language I read them, but this is specially for English readers. Lots of English reviewers here seem to think this is just a swashbuckling adventure novel, and the plot is too straightforward for that.But it's not. It is a period piece, a reconstruction of atmosphere,...
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...
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