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Darkening Sea (Hardcover)

by Alexander Kent (Author)

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Hardcover: 392 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0745177999
ISBN-13: 978-0745177991
Shipping Weight: 790 g

Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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The Richard Bolitho sea story series by Alexander Kent has more than twenty volumes and is still going strong. This entry features a mature Bolitho, his enterprising nephew, Adam, and various villains and heroes fighting the French in the Napoleonic era. Like all books in the series, it is half soap opera and half action. Michael Jayston is a superb reader; his somber intonations are perfectly in tune with the older Bolitho, and he slides easily into various British and foreign accents for the other characters. He is not performing, but reading with effortless expressiveness. D.R.W. (c) AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

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"Impeccable naval detail and plenty of action."

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4.0 out of 5 stars Adds depth and dimension to an already superb series, Feb 24 1999

By	A. Bowdoin Vanriper (Marietta, GA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Darkening Sea: The 21st Richard Bolitho Adventure (Mass Market Paperback)

The Richard Bolitho series now covers something like 23 books and (by my count) about forty years of story time. One of its chief attractions, especially in the last six or eight books, has been watching the characters grow and change and watching their lives criss-cross and intersect. The later books have (properly, since Kent is scrupulous about playing fair with Bolitho's age and medical problems) been less about swashbucking and more about relationships.

All those trends are at work in this installment. If your principal interest to Kent's novels is the sea battles and swordfights, you may want to give up on the series--or at least this piece of it. If you've stuck with the series because because you care about Bolitho and the other continuing characters, though . . . settle back and enjoy a deftly written story about love, loss, and second chances (punctuated by some 1st-rate sea battles).

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4.0 out of 5 stars Kent's Books are always good, Jan 25 1999

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This review is from: The Darkening Sea: The 21st Richard Bolitho Adventure (Mass Market Paperback)

It' some time ago since I've last read one of his books, but I'm always happy do catch one. I'm only sad that it takes sooo long till there is an other Bolitho on the market. There is only one better in writing narval fiction who is C. S. Forester with Horatio Hornblower.

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3.0 out of 5 stars A well thought out, and well written book., Sep 11 1998

By	arnold w. kalmanson(kckalmanson@ssu.edu) (Salisbury, MD) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Darkening Sea: The 21st Richard Bolitho Adventure (Mass Market Paperback)

This book is a continuation of the Bolitho series. It starts after " Beyond the Reef". Bolitho is headed back to Cape town. The theme is more thoughtful then some of Kent's earlier works. It lacks some of the mindless action some readers might crave. It does have excellent ship to ship action as well good plot development, and the the usual excellent cast. I liked this book.

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