Ovaltine Thorpe
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Sharpe's Devil
- Napoleon and South America, 1820-1821
- De: Bernard Cornwell
- Narrado por: Rupert Farley
- Duración: 11 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 146
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 133
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 133
Five years after the Battle of Waterloo, Sharpe’s peaceful retirement in Normandy is shattered. An old friend, Don Blas Vivar, is missing in Chile, reported dead at rebel hands – a report his wife refuses to believe. She appeals to Sharpe to find out the truth. Sharpe, along with Patrick Harper, find themselves bound for Chile via St. Helena, where they have a fateful meeting with the fallen Emperor Napoleon. Convinced that they are on their way to collect a corpse, neither man can imagine that dangers that await them in Chile…
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5 out of 5 stars
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How I hate that everything must come to an end!
- De Burton Mendel en 10-13-24
- Sharpe's Devil
- Napoleon and South America, 1820-1821
- De: Bernard Cornwell
- Narrado por: Rupert Farley
It keeps the story going.
Revisado: 10-12-23
It's a bummer when a good series comes to an end. Therefore, it was fantastic that this book carried on the story of Sharpe and Harper. I foolishly wasn't paying attention to the subtitle dates (not obviously visible on mobile) and just went by book numbers in the Audible app. This book is listed as book 21 while Sharpe's Assassin is listed as Book 22. However, this book takes place 5 years AFTER assassin. So, read this after that if you are looking for chronology.
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Sharpe's Gold
- Book IX of the Sharpe Series
- De: Bernard Cornwell
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 8 h y 41 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,540
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,286
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,284
Only a year after its stunning victory at Talavera in July of 1809, Wellington's Peninsular Army, vastly outnumbered and its coffers empty, was on the brink of collapse. The Spanish government had fallen, the last Spanish armies had been crushed by the French, and all that was left were the peassants fighting the guerrilla, the "little war." But Wellington had one hope left.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Fun
- De jim en 10-16-03
- Sharpe's Gold
- Book IX of the Sharpe Series
- De: Bernard Cornwell
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
It's Sharpe so I like it, but...
Revisado: 01-06-23
I am surprised at how forgiving people are with this entry. Sharpe does a lot of impressive things throughout his career, but in this second entry (by release date) he does pretty much the most dramatic thing ever...and it's not a cut and dry "good" thing.
Other issues with characters making choices that don't seem to be in keeping with the previous actions those same characters made also serve to pull the reader out of the story a bit more regularly with this one. Given the outcome, I would rather have skipped reading this because it taints the character in a sort of irredeemable way for only the most dubious of reasons.
*SPOILER*
He destroys a garrison, a British garrison, and kills at least 500 British soldiers. This was to get some paltry amount of gold out to Wellington that might supposedly change the tide of the war. It just doesn't read very convincingly.
Sharpe exhibits a pretty mediocre level of remorse about the whole thing. Maybe it will be talked about regularly in later novels?
16,000 coins was the reward for it, and of those, he gave a full thousand to Theresa. Shaving 6.25% off the top simply because he likes her is a pretty strange thing to do with something so supposedly important to the war effort, especially given that he was willing to murder over 500 friendlies to get. They also lost/took various other amounts, so the army only received like 14,000 pieces.
I suppose I am glad this book was received so well as there may otherwise not have been such excellent sequel/prequels, but it is strange.
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