Limpieza de sangre / Purity of Blood (Captain Alatriste Series, Book 2)

from kalobo

Brought up on Zorro, the Three Musketeers and the Scarlet Pimpernel, I was hooked on the Spanish Captain Alatriste by page two and eagerly await each new installment. Perez-Reverte writes with an intelligence often lacking in great adventures like these.

from msaucier818

A very quick read that was better than the first book in the Alatriste chronicles. This book is a very short story that follows the adventures of a former soldier and now sword for hire Captain Alatriste. As a history teacher, I very much enjoyed the historical background of 16th century Spain. T...

from TadAD

This is the second in Pérez-Reverte's series about Diego Alatriste, a sword-for-hire in 17th century Spain. Moving from the intrigues with England of the first book, this story brings the characters up against the Spanish Inquisition, as Alatriste and Iñigo are betrayed in an attempt to extract a...

from TheIdleWoman

Thoroughly enjoyable swashbuckling romp, set in the Spain of Velazquez and Philip IV. Captain Alatriste, a hired sword and man of honour, is a suitably noble hero in a corrupt and inglorious age. His page, Inigo, narrates a tale full of plots, intrigues and honour. If you enjoy Dumas, or Cyrano d...

from quondame

What strength this book musters, comes about from the conflict between portraying the soldier of fortune as much admired while simultaneously deploring his actions and the society which motivates those actions. Otherwise it is a pretty straight violent series of inadequately prepared blundering a...