![]() ![]() That book seemed to be an effort on the author's part to get something to the publisher for reasons unknown to the readers. The last book I read and reviewed was the fourth book in the series and to say the least it was a disappointment. This is the fifth book in the Hornblower series. Hornblower is still good stuff but I had expected a bit more. I think this was really the heart of the story. The meat of the story was really the salvage operation, but there wasn't enough tension. The Spanish frigate (where there was a furious boarding action) felt tacked on. Unfortunately these parts don't really fit well together. This book is really in three parts: (1) Hornblower takes over his ship, (2) Hornblower conducts a salvage operation in Turkish waters, and (3) Hornblower confronts a random Spanish frigate. Hornblower never needs to bring his ship into a desperate struggle. Good stuff so far, but the story never really develops or picks up as it does in the other books. The smallest possible shop to rate a full Captain. ![]() Hornblower is promoted to Post-Captain and as junior Captain on the rolls (but none-the-less favored) he is given a ship - a 22 gun sloop of war. ![]() It was definitely the weakest of the bunch thus far. I was a little disappointed with this Hornblower book. ![]()
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