A review by criminolly
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian

5.0

Am excellent historical adventure that immerses the reader in its world as completely as anything I have read. The beautiful part being that despite the huge amounts of detail it’s never dull. The plot is simple and effective but it’s the characters that really make it, in particular the two leads: Stephen Maturin, serious, thoughtful, considerate ships’s doctor and Jack Aubrey, captain and simultaneously genius and fool.