Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Book Review: Empire of the Blue Water

This was the first book on CD I ever listened to and was thoroughly impressed. Stephan Talty's novel was not only about Captain Morgan, but about Port Royal and the British and Spanish unofficial pirate war for the Carribbean.

I really appreciated the fact that while Talty told many side stories to the conflict, they were brief and almost always were related Morgan and his campaigns. This is important in a book on CD as it's harder to skim pages in audio.

I will say however, Talty did treat Morgan with a very favoralble light. While other pirates were depicted as cruel or ruthless, Morgan's actions were almost always justified and any potential atrocities committed by Morgan's men (never Morgan) seemed to be glossed over. John Mayer's reading with a British accent and changes in cadence kept the book humming along.

I really enjoyed the novel as I drove to and from work.

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