Pirates Of The Levant

from Amelia_Smith

I picked up this book off the library's New Books shelves without having read any of the earlier books in the series. The writing hooked me, and I liked the characters, too, but I started to get bogged down in the middle. The story suffers from a lack over-arching plot -- it appears to be just on...

from Ma_Washigeri

Picked this up because it was set in the Levant. I didn't realise that it was 6th in a series and hardly noticed that it was originally Spanish. And I really enjoyed the half I read. The historical background to the Jewish and particularly Moorish expulsions from Spain was riveting and the pictur...

from Ma_Washigeri

Picked this up because it was set in the Levant. I didn't realise that it was 6th in a series and hardly noticed that it was originally Spanish. And I really enjoyed the half I read. The historical background to the Jewish and particularly Moorish expulsions from Spain was riveting and the pictur...