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Review title: Not ready for prime time
Product review: Kydd, as a novel, rates an "all right", as a first novel perhaps a "good". But it definately is not great. The plot is very episotic, much like the Hornblowers that were written as short stories, but this book was supposed to hang together as a single work. Plot lines begin and end for no rational reason, and there is a healthy dose of coincedence in some of the escapes. Characters are thin, often bordering on stereotype. This book is not in the same league as the opther heavy hitters in the genre - don't look to Stockwin for the next O'Brian or Kent
