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Review #1
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So much happens in this book. By the time I finished and realized all that’s taken place in the short span of this story I’m amazed that it has only been the one book. I truly believe Lambdin is a master story teller considering how interwoven the preceding stories are between each other and how seamlessly he tells the tales as if you’re witnessing rather than reading them. Lewrie’s arch nemesis, Choundas, and the dreaded foreign office spies, and the dreaded Beaumans are all in play. Not to mention the discovery of a son from an earlier story, not the one we already know about, will be prominent in this one. I also admit to being pleased that Lambdin inserted the frigate USS Sumter into the story. My first ship in the US Navy in the 1980s was the USS Sumter, a less than glamorous or exciting Tank Landing Ship but I loved her just the same. I highly recommend Havoc’s Sword. I don’t think you can go wrong with this kind of entertainment at the price.
Review #2
Havoc’s Sword audiobook in series Alan Lewrie
This book in the series has less action than in the earlier books. There is more intrigue, which is fine, but there is also a lot more filler, esp self doubt and self recrimination segments with Lewrie. I don’t think extended intra and inter personal dialogue is one of mr. Lambdin s writing strengths. However, he does tell a good story and has left enough plot lines open that I will probably have to read the next book.
After reading Lambdin’s latest books, “Havoc’s” was a return when Alan wasn’t in charge of things. He’s with his favorite ship and crew, but being pulled about by the spy department and has his nemesis out to get him. Things start out with a brawl of a duel. This triggers an escapade that will haunt him for more then a few books. Finally, the result of one of his (many) misadventures turns up.
Review #3
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Good author, varying stories, good understanding of sailing and what probably was a reasonably good naval historical story line with many details from early 1800s. Lambdin gives stories that are similar to O’Brien’s and I still prefer the latter but maybe because I found Patrick O’Brien first (?). I have several of Lambdin’s books and I enjoy them all so far and don’t plan on skipping any that I have on the shelf.
Review #4
Audio Havoc’s Sword narrated by John Chancer
Having read (and enjoyed) the first ten books in this series, I was hoping that the flaws which were starting to appear in books 8,9 and 10 would be resolved by the editors. Essentially, Mr Lambdin has a wealth of stories from which to create adventures for his hero, Lewrie. Unfortunately, rather than spend more time exploring the historical perspective or writing about genuine adventure or sea battles, quite a lot of the books now revolve around rather pathetic attempts to put down accents or broken pidgin languages and make something of it, or of extremely unlikely ‘flashes of insight’ or fears of one character or another. Don’t get me started on the nonsense with the cat. Yes, all cat owners talk rubbish to their cats, but literary convention is that it is ideal to ignore this, in the same way that one doesn’t spend time writing about people going to the toilet or doing the washing up, even though everyone might do it. The cat adds nothing whatsoever in character or insight, and is entirely a waste of the reader’s time. So too is the constant padding around Lewrie’s shallow and inconstant nature. We get it, he’s a rake. So have him doing rakish things, not witter to all and sundry or have all and sundry witter to him about how awful he is to be a rake. None of the rakes of my acquaintance would give the time of day so such brainless musings, even for literary purposes.
This so far is the difference between Lambdin and the peers of the genre, C.S. Forester, Dudley Pope, Julian Stockwin and Patrick O’Brien. Forester and Pope had largely perfect heroes in Hornblower and Ramage, and with this limitation, the only way to go is into the naval stories of derring-do, and these are therefore beautifully written and very exciting to read. When Lambdin does this, he achieves close to the same level. O’Brien introduced a character with a lot of flaws in Aubrey, and balanced this with the ascetic polymath Maturin, and Stockwin did the same with Kidd and Renzi, which added an enormous depth and richness to how they could portray the characters both on and off shore. Lambdin is trying to do this in one character, and it doesn’t ring true. I am sure that there are legions of stories about such people from the time, but to stuff so much into one character increasingly for me. He needs a foil, with whom to expound the politics and intrigue, rather than have pages and pages of screed of internal monologue which is written in cod-pirate language for no obvious gain. This worked well in earlier books with Caroline and others including Nelson, but the powerful leader of the King’s Captain turns improbably and without exposition into the gibbering jelly of Havoc’s Sword.
I know Lambdin has written another 14 books since, and I will persevere as long as I can, but I sincerely hope they are not continuing this pitiful thread of padding out the good bits of writing with drivel than should never have made it into the draft. Lambdin is at his best, and his best is very, very good, when Lewrie is at sea and has a target or a foe in sight, or is actually engaged in the activities for which Lewrie is famed, but please, Clio and Calliope, get him to keep the other parts to a minimum until he has a proper foil. And have something happen to that damn cat.
Review #5
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This latest in the seagoing adventures of Alan Lewrie ( number 11), puts the anti hero in the Caribbean and as usual he has the knack of rubbing his superiors up the wrong way, for reasons known only to them. He also has to contend with the replacement for his old irritant Mr Twigg, the honourable Mr Pelham. Who is a caricature of an over inflated member of the aristocracy. Although by this stage in the game Lewrie is a slight more subtle in his own planning and scheming. Thrown in to the mix is his “by-blow” by soft rabbit, Desmond Mcgilleray, now a midshipmen in the USN. Whom I’m sure will feature in future episodes. He is at the end of this book in some danger and I for one hope he survives
