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Pros & Cons

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Pros

Bernard cornwell’s style is precise, uncluttered, and visceral. The author made a deliberate choice to have the characters live with 18th century values and modern vocabulary and usage for the sake of narrative clarity. Bernard cornwell is the best at... Read More

Bernard cornwell does this remarkably with the fabulous richard sharpe series. Combined with his other historical series covering a period a thousand years earlier makes his body of work nothing short of a tour de force.

My only caution is not to read it before trying to go to sleep because you will loose sleep. But who knows? But you can't help it; it draws you in that completely!

This book is more than a revisit of an older successful series. The only bad thing about this book is it only took 2 sittings to devour it.

Cons

The characters, the action, the dialogue, the descriptions all seem to lack cornwellian verisimilitude. Nelson demille is another offender.

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Highlights

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Quality

Bravely and boldly with the perfect amount of disdain for the institution and war

I had hoped when i thought he was done with the series several years ago that some day he would revise the series

If not go and start with the first

Bernard cornwell does this remarkably with the fabulous richard sharpe series but combined with his other historical series cov... Read More

Packaging/appearance

I discovered richard sharpe when sean bean exploded off the screen with sharpes rifles the first of bernard cornwells napoleonic war series

Competitiveness

Much better than the other postwaterloo efforts

Overview

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This product had a total of 6,894 reviews as of our last analysis date on Aug 20 2022.