HarperCollins Rebel, Fiction, Paperback, Bernard Cornwell
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Price: £9.99
Brand: HarperCollins
Description: The first book in Bernard Cornwell's bestselling series on the American Civil War. HarperCollins Rebel, Fiction, Paperback, Bernard Cornwell - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Product ID: 9780007497966
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Dimensions: 129x198mm
Keywords: Civil War,Black Powder,Unionists,Confederates,Starbuck,Militaria,Insubordinate,Pinkerton,Divided Loyalties
ISBN: 9780007497966
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Author: steve grant
Rating: 5
Review: Good story, well written
Author: Rick Brindle
Rating: 1
Review: Who would have thought you could put Bernard Cornwell and bad book in the same sentence? Not me, that's for sure. I mean, this is Bernard Cornwell, the man who wrote the peerless Sharpe series. Sharpe! Rebel tells the story of Nathaniel Starbuck, a northerner who signs up with the southerners and fights for them in the American Civil War. The climatic battle of this novel is the first Bull Run (I didn't know there were more than one til I read this book). There are some very familiar Cornwell themes here, an outcast who becomes the hero, he has enemies on his own side, no one wants him to be an officer, and surprise surprise, he ends up in charge of the skirmishers. Oh, and he gets to boff a beautiful woman as well. Sounds like a winning combination. So what went wrong? Well, there is zero pace and a massive over description. To the point where I gave up on the narrative and just skipped to the dialogue. I still got the story, without the, well I have to say it, utterly boring prose. It really could have been cut by half (much like game of thrones). The scene with Nate's father is also very oddly placed, and after a few lines I skipped that as well. It was very unsatisfying to have to skim vast tracts of this novel, but it was that or not read to the end, which would have been akin to admitting defeat. I'm glad I read Sharpe before picking this up, because if I hadn't, on the strength of this novel, I wouldn't have gone near another Cornwell book, and to have missed out on Sharpe would have been to miss one of the joys of life. Sadly though, I'll not be following Starbuck any further. Other books you might like to read An Angel's Alternative Cold Steel on the Rocks We Are Cold Steel
