This is the third book of the Jack Aubrey – Stephen Maturin novel series. If you haven’t read these before, what I would say is that they’re a nice blend of multiple purposes. For one, it’s a ship-going adventures series. It’s also a Napoleonic Wars adventure series. It’s also a Jane Austen-era romance series. So far the books have been more or less ordered based on a continuous plot from the beginning of the first book to the end of this third book. I don’t […]
Stephen looked sharply round, saw the decanter, smelt to the sloth, and cried, ‘Jack, you have debauched my sloth.’
HMS Surprise by Patrick O'Brien
