Review: Sharpe’s Company
Yep, back to the Napoleonic Wars, with Bernard Cornwell. It’s been a while since I’ve checked in with Sharpe and the boys, and honestly, they seem to have gotten a little whinier than I remember. Sharpe’s always been worried about his fate and his love life, but I seem to recall more of this having been resolved last time. This all felt more like a replay than new worries.
Overall this was much more like a Twilight book than I was expecting. Both of our leading men spend a lot of time weighing their motives in trying to join a Forlorn Hope, and primary meaning aside, it was rather more introspective than I wanted, and their concerns had been played before.
As much as I liked the Twilight series, I prefer my men of action to brood less and fight more. Hopefully this was just a brief slacking of the action. We did learn a bunch about siege warfare, though.