Recent reading
Jun. 30th, 2020 10:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luzulaI'm behind on booklogging...here's one of them, at least.
Men of War by Lou Faulkner (2019)
This is an Age of Sail m/m romance between an English captain and a French naval officer who is also an astronomer and navigator, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I found the characters easy to care about, which I think is because they are so grounded in the setting and both have previous lives and pursuits unconnected to the other, including previous lovers. It's a very slow burn romance, which I like, with no love/lust at first sight, and quite satisfying in the end. The writing style is lovely, and you can tell that the author has done her research--not that I am in a position to actually judge, but the descriptions of life at sea are detailed and feel very well done. The main characters are men, but there are a fair number of women in the book as well. Recommended, if this sounds like the sort of thing you would enjoy!
Maybe I should say that I know the author, but my review would have been as positive regardless.
Since the book contains, among other things, pirates in the Indian Ocean, let me also share a hilarious (otherwise unconnected) fact which I learned recently: in the early 18th century, Sweden was so short of money after all that warfare that they contemplated making a deal with pirates in Madagascar. *boggles* The pirates would give Sweden money in exchange for using a Swedish flag of convenience, so that they could claim to be privateers and not be immediately hanged when captured.
Men of War by Lou Faulkner (2019)
This is an Age of Sail m/m romance between an English captain and a French naval officer who is also an astronomer and navigator, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I found the characters easy to care about, which I think is because they are so grounded in the setting and both have previous lives and pursuits unconnected to the other, including previous lovers. It's a very slow burn romance, which I like, with no love/lust at first sight, and quite satisfying in the end. The writing style is lovely, and you can tell that the author has done her research--not that I am in a position to actually judge, but the descriptions of life at sea are detailed and feel very well done. The main characters are men, but there are a fair number of women in the book as well. Recommended, if this sounds like the sort of thing you would enjoy!
Maybe I should say that I know the author, but my review would have been as positive regardless.
Since the book contains, among other things, pirates in the Indian Ocean, let me also share a hilarious (otherwise unconnected) fact which I learned recently: in the early 18th century, Sweden was so short of money after all that warfare that they contemplated making a deal with pirates in Madagascar. *boggles* The pirates would give Sweden money in exchange for using a Swedish flag of convenience, so that they could claim to be privateers and not be immediately hanged when captured.
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Date: 2020-08-07 02:17 am (UTC)