by Bernard Cornwell
1/2 - That rating is really 3.5 as I didn't enjoy the battle nearly as much as the one in Sharpe's Tiger. In fact I found it quite tedious and ended up skipping a number of pages that concerned the placements of Wellesley's troops (not highly exciting, as I couldn't imagine any of it in my mind). ...
This wasn't my favourite Sharpe book. It had its moments and I liked the ongoing tension as Sharpe worried about Jane, but I thought the overall plot was on more flimsy footing than most of the other books. If Ducos is supposed to be such a brilliant adversary, he should have been better than he ...
Oh, thank heaven I'm done with this book! This thing just dragged on, and I was terribly diappointed in it because I enjoyed Sharpe's Tiger so much! I really felt like everything in this book was so uneven. First of all, the plot was meandering, as though the author was unsure of where he wanted ...
Chronologically this is the 2nd Sharpe and centres around the Battle of Assaye 23 September 1803Unabridged, and read by William Gaminara.
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