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Avg. Customer Rating: 2.5 / 5.0
I'll never touch Severin again Easily, this book ranks highly among the worst ever read by me. The author has clearly researched the time period the book is set in deeply, but has not put his knowledge to good use. The book mainly lacks real characters and a development of their personalities. Any person appearing in the book could have been exchanged by another soulless character. The storyline seems to be set in a way to peak at the meeting of Hector and his sister Elizabeth, but completely failed to cause any emotion or satisfaction... more info
Story in search of characters I picked up this book based on my pleasant experiences reading Severin's travel writing. It is often relevant to maritime history and attempts to recreate the experience. Aside from this unique approach, he usually becomes sufficiently knowledgeable of the subject that these books are informative. Corsair unfortunalty is a pastiche of episodes strung togeather in which Severin only relies on his historical knowledge. The story line is almost devoid of character depth and close to caricature - three... more info
poor Took this book on holiday to Antigua but did`nt bring it home. only read 50-60 pages & not impressed enough to keep going. Sorry but very hard to enjoy anything about this book.
good detail not enough story... This book is a prime example of an author delving deeply into the history books to create a world full of accurate details and realistic settings but forgetting that his main job is telling an engaging story... It all seemed to flit from one place to another without any real characterisation, while the end was (how else to put it) a bit of a damp squib... It's a shame, nice ideas, poor execution...
