Title: Going through the motions
Review: This was a disappointing entry in this series, as most of the earlier books have been quite entertaining. The author seemed to be going through the motions of writing his style of book, but he was basically cutting and pasting a scene here and a scene there from previous novels. You had Flashy with the lovely but dangerous women; Flashy in mortal peril; fearful Flashy abandoning others to save himself; Flashy looking bluff and manly but inwardly quaking; and Flashy's presence at crucial events being misinterpreted to his favor. It was all very rote and leads you to believe that the author is getting tired of it all. The historical wrapping was different from the other books, of course, but it came across as generically Foreign and Exotic; it seemed as if the author had run out of interesting adventures to slot into Flashy's timeline and so chose this one as a second-best option.
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