A review by elegantmechanic
Sharpe's Eagle by Bernard Cornwell

3.0

Fairly enjoyable (read spontaneously when an inexplicable interest in the Napoleonic era swept over me). Chapters tend to feel very episodic with most feeling like a self-contained story which made it hard to care about what was next and therefore keep reading, but the last few dealing with the major battle have more momentum and I read 4 of them in a sitting. Never read Cornwell before and I don't know if his habit here of repeated character description is part of his style (I lost count of how many times he used the phrase "the tall rifleman" to describe Sharpe) but it was a bit grating. I also rolled my eyes at one character who existed only to be brutalised in order to give Sharpe motivation but that may have been a sign of the times (1981). Would try more of these but not in a hurry.