Reviews

Beat The Drums Slowly by Adrian Goldsworthy

eososray's review against another edition

2.0

I did a bit of speed reading and finished this book in 4 hours. It spent entirely too much time with Williams, Jane and Wickham and not enough on battle. I don't read Napoleonic war era books in order to spend half the book on Williams’s dog-like devotion to Jane.

It is unfortunate that this series took a wrong turn and went with relationships over action but at least I still have Sharpe.

exterus's review

3.0

Part two of the series takes off from where the first one ended, and continues in the same vein. The storytelling is fluent, the plot works very well and, for me, the most important thing in historical fiction, great attention is paid to historical detail. However, the characters still remain slightly distant and shifting the point of view around in times of action is still confusing. A quick read with an almost impeccable balance between historical background and fictitious events, but it's hard to see me returning for a re-read.