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A review by mwx1010
Blue at the Mizzen by Patrick O'Brian
4.0
So that's that then.
The last of the series (not counting the unfinished notes which were published to mixed reaction). There's a curious change which happens about halfway through the series. The quality of the plotting drops away a little but by that point the reader has become so familiar with the world O'Brian has built and the characters it contains that the enjoyment of the series switches to taking it as a character study.
This was clearly not intended as a final chapter in the saga, but contains enough closure to allow it to act as one. Probably a series I'll reread in time, but for now - Goodbye.
The last of the series (not counting the unfinished notes which were published to mixed reaction). There's a curious change which happens about halfway through the series. The quality of the plotting drops away a little but by that point the reader has become so familiar with the world O'Brian has built and the characters it contains that the enjoyment of the series switches to taking it as a character study.
This was clearly not intended as a final chapter in the saga, but contains enough closure to allow it to act as one. Probably a series I'll reread in time, but for now - Goodbye.