Aubrey/Maturin Novels H.M.S. Surprise, Book 3, (Paperback)

from ASBiskey

I really enjoy Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series. I have read and enjoyed many of them. I continue to fear I will become jaded "They sailed, they fought, same old, same old". However, I conti...

from read.to.live

I don't know if I will be able to put in words why I love this book. I enjoy spending time with the characters: they are larger than life, but accessible; human, drastically flawed, but honorable a...

from redfiona

Great, rollicking read, and I apologise to anyone in Leicester that I confused while reading it as I walked. An absolute page-turner gem of a book, filled with more vim than Post Captain, but expla...

from BooksForDinner

Each book I read of O'Brian knocks me out. Only the first three so far, but yikes. What beautiful language. The dialogue stays true to the period, but the narration does not, which I think is perfe...

from DarthDeverell

H.M.S. Surprise begins almost immediately after Post Captain ended, with Captain Jack Aubrey's famous luck again failing him on land as his hard-won fortune slips away from him. In Patrick O'Brian'...