The King’s Coat

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Review #1

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Dewey Lambdin will always come in second to Patrick O’Brian but having said that, he has written an excellent series of naval novels about the British Royal Navy during the 18th Century. My few quibbles are his overly extended passages about sail handling and boat handling which often go on for several pages. After the third or fourth time, I get the point: he knows the details of the theory and mechanics of sail handling 18th Century sailing vessels. I now simply scan forward until he has finished showing off and resumes the story line. The other annoying issue (at least for me) are his sexual interludes. I have no problem with Alan Lewrie getting involved with grass widows, whores, adventuresses and various morts but he drifts into pornography much too often for my tastes. If I were his editor I would have remove much of the repetitive material and wound up with a book 1/3 shorter…about 200 pages instead of 300 and told him to beef up the story line. Having said all that, I enjoy the story line very much and expanding it at the expense of the excessively graphic sex and the endless descriptionsd of sail handling would have earned him the 5th star in this review.

Review #2

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Outstanding book. The beginning was a bit over the top, with Alan as a rake drawn as a near near parody of Fielding/Tom-Jones. As the character develops, however, the feel of the era and the knowledge of naval technology, methods and customs come through, with brilliant clarity. The author keeps the tempo going in a manner reminiscent of the early O’Brien novels, with plenty of action while also examining intellectual and philosophical tropes. I will definitely look at the rest of the series. One note: some of the narrative of Alan’s sexual encounters is quite graphically descriptive, which may be a concern if this is going to be purchased for family reading.

The book starts off good but quickly deteriorates from there. It’s just not very believable when you start inserting today’s ideals into a historical fiction book where the story takes place 600 years ago. I ready don’t seem they had the same agendas we do today. To compare this book to the Hornblower series is a travesty. There is not one character in the book I actually liked.

Review #3

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Excellent adventure story of a young man forced to join the British navy in the 1700s. The descriptions of ship life and complexity of sailing a large sailing vessel at that time are fascinating..The story is a fun read. My only complaint is that the various plot lines are not fully resolved at the end of the book. Therefore I bought book 2 of the series. I would have anyway but it would have been nice if book 1 was complete by itself. Still I enjoyed this story.

I’ve read many of the Napoleonic era Royal navy series out there all the way back to Forester. This one to me is unlike the others in that the main character is a bit of a rogue. That may change as I am only on the second book but it adds flavor. A hint of Flashman (George MacDonald Fraser) perhaps but not in the area of courage. I have to say I’m enjoying the series.

Review #4

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This is a highly addictive series of novels. After “The Kings Coat” I quickly went straight through the 16 (and counting) other novels. This is not Hornblower and it is not Alexander Kent’s “Bolitho”. It is a gritty, human, down-and-dirty look at the Royal Navy, English society and the British Empire in the late 17 to early 1800’s. Mr Lambdin has done massive amounts of historical research in the writing of these novels. His knowledge and use of naval terminology, sailing minutia, common slang, foreign languages, cultural references, music, etc is unbelievable. Reading Mr. Lambin’s tales about the “life” of Alan Lewrie had me reaching for the laptop to look something up and do more research time after time. Each book has an afterword which places the volume in it’s historical setting relative to the actual events of the time. Truly a magnificently done period piece series.

A thoroughly enjoyable start to the series. I don’t know where I’ve been, having missed this series all this time! Question though. The series appears to be a bonanza with 24 novels. Why does it appear that only six are available on kindle? Amazon, what are you doing? If the rest of the novels stay to form, then I can see my self reading the rest. I want to be able to do so on kindle.

Review #5

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Great romping series of books somewhat in the Flashman style and somewhat more serious as well. Certainly as good as many of the other sea novels I have read and I have read most of them now. Good characterisation, good nautical detail and a hero that lives the fantasies of most men, I would imagine 🙂

The author hides his American origins pretty well, there are only one or two “Go get” or “Go see” type of blunders. They get more intrusive in later books (I’m on book 4 now) but not too annoying. It does pull you out if the story though when it occurs. Especially the “Hell yeah” when it turns up. But it is very infrequent, don’t let it put you off.

All in all a great romping read if you have finished all of the “standard” sets of books and are fed up with buying random self-published rubbish that tend more toward romances and contain little naval knowledge.

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