Captain Blood
Ratings26
Average rating3.8
Entertaining and full of action, it kept me turning the pages but overall I think I liked Scaramouche better. The racism and colonialism was distasteful–while it's considered absolutely horrific for Blood and his white compatriots to be enslaved, there is never any questioning that for black slaves this treatment is fine for an inferior and naturally subject race. Etc.
It starts well, but then becomes a series of grocery list adventures. The love interest also starts well, but soon becomes unbearable and she is only introduced to give a fake moral dilemma to the Captain.
The audiobook narration by Michael Maloney is fantastic - very dramatic, and Peter Blood's Irish accent carries a great deal of wry humor and charm.
CW: Some outdated language relating to sex and race, as one often encounters in books of this era.