A review by madswag27
The Surgeon's Mate by Patrick O'Brian

As always, picking up a Patrick O'Brian is like catching up with old friends. The one with: bad decisions made in Halifax; far too much Diana (I still don't love her, sorry Stephen); Stephen gives a disastrous science lecture and all anyone remembers is the "intromittent organ of the raven"; adventures in the Baltic ft. a very beautiful blond Lithuanian officer Jagiello who is SO clumsy on a ship and just has women throwing themselves at him everywhere he goes (and the Englishmen always in the background just like "wtf, why, what about this here fellow with the nice beard???" sdkdhskdh); groundings and wreckings and welp, prisoners again; a very funny sequence re: carriage drives and undercooked crayfish; "Bitche"; Stephen spends his time in prison being interrogated and also prescribing the resident prison mouse some cream for its pregnancy I CANNOT; and surprise, BABY BABBINGTON HAS BEEN PROMOTED! <3