Thrilling! On every level, Captain's Surrender is thrilling. Alex Beecroft spins image, voice, character, setting, and story into a captivating whole, accomplishing the rare feat of inducing in the reader a forgetfulness that we are, indeed, reading...
I said at the beginning of this review that Captain's Surrender thrilled me. It satisfied a craving I've had for decades, for a certain kind of book, the kind that's so seldom written it's an almost violent surprise when one crosses my path. It drilled right down to the bedrock of my psyche, dug out that part of me that whiled away childhood afternoons with elaborate seagoing, swashbuckling epic fantasies, then set it in the sunshine beside my adolescent longing for a more bent, more tolerant world. Add to that damned good writing to satisfy an adult self with high standards and broad tastes, and you've got a keeper. And something to recommend with impunity.
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