An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure (Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures)

Good read if you like this genre. An excellent beach+ book with good character development and especially good food + wine descriptions. Yes I get that we all kind of know how it will end, but how can you not love Bisquit + Chalky?

I have read all of these adventures of Captain Lewrie by this author. This one was sort of a "sleeper". Not too exciting, and got bogged down in several places. The best part were the last two chapters when the Lewrie led squadron engaged several French ships. The battle scenes were believable and downright cruel, but exciting. However, I look forward to the next one, if there will be yet another adventure, after Capt. Lewrie and his frigate limped, badly damaged, to Gibraltor.

I have been following Alan Lewrie's career since the first book was published. It has been quite a ride! The latest book is among the best in the series with a good balance in the narrative between "ashore and afloat". Several interesting tidbits are dangled, like treats for Chalky and Bisquit, which may provide plots for the next or future books. Like all of this series reading this book makes the wait for the next one seem even longer

the worst novel about Alan Lewrie that Dewey Lambdin has written. Boring, terrible waste of language and disconnected. Presented Lewrie in a somewhat different character profile than earlier and much, much better books. Quite amateur in characters, plot, and "telling some sort of a story." Greatly distorted and rambling. Lambdin's other accounts of Lewrie have been interesting, well written, and the reason for my continuing to buy his books. Did he really write this or was it ghost written???

Don't just read this book. Read the whole series. One nice thing about the series --among many nice things- is the way the main character has grown. The author has grown too. If you read carefully, you will find all so subtle pokes at the British "stiff upper lip" and class consciousness.
The action is great, the descriptions perfect, and the detail is as good as the best in the genre.
But, Mr. Lambdin, Sir, why such repetitious insertion of dog and cat stories? A soggy dog chew once... okay. More than once.. a bit insulting.

I have read every book in the series. I live vicariously Sir Alan Lewrie. And I look forward to every book. Highly recommended for those who also sail with Captain Aubrey. Or even Mr. Sharpe. Oh my, so what if Sharpe and Lewrie got together to get Aubrey out of a French trap set for Dr. Maturin? . Now, THAT would be a story!

Lewrie and his exploits continue to sustain this fine series. A commodore now, merchant raiding along the coasts of the Iberian Peninsula keep the his ships in practice and fine fettle while adding modestly to their prize money. The book concludes nicely with an excellent battle scene as Lewrie and his small "Band of Brothers" take on four fine French Frigates,

Have been reading the series for years, and order each new book as it comes out. Historical fiction in which each naval action and campaign actually happened (though other English captains actually did the deeds, and probably did them without the decidedly ribald nature of Alan Lewrie). The series makes naval history in the Napoleonic Wars more understandable - and certainly more entertaining.

For Dewey Lambdin fans, I thought you might be interested to know, he writes using an IBM Select 3. Computers and Dewey apparently do not get along. Maybe this tool helps with the authenticity in his books.

I am afraid Mr Lambden has become a bit formulaic and covers flatness with his impression of early nineteenth century English language. A good deal of the book is spent recapitulating previous events.