Essex Dogs

I was so excited for this one, but in the end it was a let down. The characters were not written in a way that makes you feel anything for them. Every time I sensed a spark of some development happening it flickered out just as quickly. I had trouble even staying engaged with the story because a lot of it dragged on and on and on. While this group of men were waiting for things to pick up along their journey toward battle, so was I... for the majority of the book. Rather than the anticipation building throughout the entire plot, I was simply bored and barely made it to the end. Pretty disappointed.