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    Caribbee
    Caribbee
    Caribbee
    Audiobook11 hours

    Caribbee

    Written by Julian Stockwin

    Narrated by Christian Rodska

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Thomas Kydd, a hero of Trafalgar, holds the glory of being Post-Captain of the 32-gun frigate, L'Aurore. A Caribbean posting seems a welcome respite for the war hero, but when more and more merchantmen begin vanishing from the sea, fear starts to spread. Kydd must embark on a dangerous game of espionage in order to destroy this new and terrible danger to the Empire.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateJun 5, 2014
    ISBN9781471264306
    Caribbee
    Author

    Julian Stockwin

    Julian Stockwin is the internationally bestselling author of Kydd, Artemis, Seaflower, and Mutiny, the first four novels in the Kydd adventure series. Having joined the Royal Navy at age fifteen, he retired from the Royal Naval Reserve as a lieutenant commander and was awarded the Member of the British Empire (MBE). He and his wife live in Devon, England. Visit the author's website at JulianStockwin.com.

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    • 5/5
      I really needed this book. After what I felt to be a couple of the weakest books in the series (very land based), this one returns us to the Caribbean, and mostly sea based action! A really good story, where even Renzi managed to stay on a nautical footing and not disappear off on some philosophical adventure or thoughtpath, or obsess so much over being an insufficient match for cecelia. Good stuff and I hope for more of the same!
    • 5/5
      Stockwin is back on track giving us our heroic Thomas Kydd, doing heroic things, during a time that calls for heroism. We seem to have been at a loss to find a good yarn where we could see that all occur and though we don't have one great cannonball slinging sea battle, we have sea chases and a hurricane, as well as subterfuge and thought in the war against the French. Renzi finally emerges out of his funk to act like a man instead of a rag that he has been for several books, though still his background and position in the tale seems weak. The son of an Earl, the heir, wants to continue to be estranged from his father hurting the feelings of his mother, and causing undo stress upon all that family seems far fetched after so many books covering so many years.In the scheme of things, we have Kydd back on track doing what he is meant to do, Captain a vessel in the war. And where other of the recent tales lagged, this moves along at a quick page-turning pace, with prose working into the writing to give us a glimpse of the locale and period even better than previous books. The dialogue places us in the nineteenth century and all that we could hope for is presented with Kydd becoming the hero of 2 major actions in the theater of war.Now, as our hero makes his way to the next action, we can only hope that Stockwin keeps to this tack and our Kydd does even greater things to reap acclaim.
    • 3/5
      An interesting look at the Caribbean Theater during the Napoleonic Era, a bit slow , when not spinning naval battles but overall enjoyable, and a series I will add to my reading list.
    • 4/5
      Captain Kidd has been sent to the Caribbean where he must find the source of raids on British shipping. He finds that not only must he fight the French, but he faces betrayal as well.Overall, this is an okay book, but it did seem to drag. The cover had said something about Kidd being on trial for his life and yet that episode in the book is nearly at the end and is a minor point in the story. The plot was interesting, but I feel the writing (and editing) could have made the story move along at a quicker pace with fewer diversions. As it stands, the story seemed to be a series of connected events without building to any major climax.
    • 3/5
      Received book through Early Reviewers, Very good read about the Napoleonic wars in the caribean. Sea battles were very intriguing. The story had some lagging spots where I seemed to lose interest. Overall a good Sea worthy novel.
    • 3/5
      "Caribbee: A Kydd Sea Adventure" by Julian Stockwin - I received this book via Early Reviewers. As a staunch and continued fan of Patrick O'Brian (on my 12th re-read of the Aubrey/Maturin series), I have to admit that Mr Stockwin's book had a hard time with me to start. It took me a few tries to get going with this book, another entry in the Kydd series. I'm not sure if it was the geographic setting, Stockwin's style of writing, or my attention span as life swirled on around me. The third try got me in deep enough to keep reading. I liked the history, back story, and other bits of information included in the book, nothing too "force it into the story anyhow" and nothing too obvious "let's have the land lubber be instructed in the basics for 20 pages, so that the reader can learn too!" (POB sort of got away with it, but subsequent re-reads have me turning pages rather quickly!). I liked the naval actions, I could follow along on what was happening without a lot of reference books (though I love having a smartphone when reading sailing stories - I can quickly check geographic locations, information about cities and locales, animals, people in history, nautical terms etc). The characters were enjoyable without being too over-the-top or annoying, tho some were taken just a bit too far for me - I know an author can't devote their life to their characters, but some lazy shortcuts were taken in places, some were more cliche than character.It was an engaging story, and I'm going to get the series from the library to start from the beginning. It's no POB, but then, no one ever can be such. Even POB at the end wasn't really POB.
    • 3/5
      This amazing book is about the spellbinding adventures of Thomas Kydd. In this novel he is sent to the caribbean and he runs down ships loaded with sugar and sends them to england, and Napolean gots a score to settle with kydd
    • 3/5
      Great battling frigates! Captain Thomas Kidd is off on another seagoing adventure. If only he could take more time off from the Napoleonic Wars to clear up that unfortunate murder charge and enjoy the Caribbean. Instead his adversaries are up to all sorts of nasty island tricks like controlling the sugar trade.
    • 4/5
      Captain Thomas Kydd contends with villains: American, French, and British . Kydd and friend and companion Nicholas Renzi join forces to shut down an American/ French cabal designed to destroy the English Caribbean sugar trade. In addition, Kydd must deal with the out of control Captain Rufus Tyree, master of a 74 gun British first rate.All-in-all, I felt that this was the most well written of the Kydd series to date. Mr. Stock win continues to provide well-researched, action packed adventures which ring true to life in the early nineteenth century. This latest effort carries the reader along with seamless ease!
    • 3/5
      Caribbee, by Julian Stockwin, is a typical book of the genre of British captain of a frigate fighting in Napoleonic Wars. The fighting sequences are well done and the plot twists are original ( given the number of books set in this locale, that is an accomplishment) yet there are some things I would have liked better. Some of the subplots felt rushed ( a near mutiny, a spy mission, etc.) and the setting up of a potentially major action - chasing down of two French frigates - was all too brief. This was the first in the series that I have read, and I felt at a loss with several of the characters as I didn't know the history of them. Having read C.S. Forester and Patrick O'Brian I felt that this was a significant level below them. So good marks for originality, but I felt that this book could have been much more fleshed out in plot and character development.
    • 3/5
      nb: I was given a copy of this novel pre-release in return for this review.I think that this was the most enjoyable sailing historical novel I have read in a while. Probably since finishing O'Brian.Things that I appreciated about this work was that, although this is the 14th novel in the series and I haven't read any of the previous ones, I didn't feel too much at a loss to "catch up" in the plot; nor did I find that the author spent an unacceptable amount of time catching his audience up. A fine balance.The plot is a little hard to summarize only because it is so busy. I don't know if this is a knock on the book or a plus. But there is a lot of stuff happening in this book. Captain Kydd, a young frigate captain of the L'Aurore, is sent to various stations in the Caribbean to assist with various things. He captures a few ships, he spends at least two missions trying to find a base for increased French activity in the area. The cover jacket blurb says that he is accused of murder and this bring up items from his past that he'd rather remain hidden. However, this gem doesn't come in until the last 15% of the book. So a very busy book. Lots of stuff happening - which made for enjoyable reading in short bursts.
    • 4/5
      Another interesting entry in this quite good series. Stockwin captures the essence of the islands.in Georgian times as well as the political importance of their geography and their most important export, sugar. Interesting characters and a suitably intriguing story line aptly explores the excitement and difficulties of his "up from the ranks" frigate captain. .