![]() ![]() He is a good officer, but he is maybe a little to stick to the book. Other than the obviously trouble he is facing, there is also the little factor that Peter is not exactly a “hero”. He said that enlist was his only chance, but still I think that it was a poor chance due to his preferences in matter of sex. Why he chose to enlist is still a mystery to me, since he ran away from home right for that reason, he was found out groping a fellow boy before that, he was supposed to follow his stepfather’s trails as a preacher, after that, he has no family and home. Regardless the period, sodomy is still a hanging crime in the British naval army and Lieutenant Peter Thornton well knows it. ![]() Kei is pretty accurate in his description even if, in my historical ignorance, I really am not able to put a precise date for the events: it’s a period in which France and England are not at war between each other, it’s a period when the Sallee Republic was at war with Spain (I for example had to check where and when the Sallee Republic existed). Truth, if the author did a lot of mistakes, I really can’t enjoy it. Elisa_rolle As usual when I read an historical novel I try to judge it more for the feeling it left me than for the details accuracy. ![]()
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