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Captain Blood
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March 10, 2020
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April 9, 2020
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Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂
4.5★

With the world in crisis, this is the sort of escapist reread I needed!



Unjustly convicted after the Monmouth rebellion for an act of humanity,Dr Peter Blood is transported to the Caribbean & becomes a slave to the cruel Colonel Bishop. The colonel has a lovely niece...

On about my tenth read I still loved this book, although it doesn't hold up to rereading as well as the author's Scaramouche did. The hero and heroine are both appealing characters (view spoiler)
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Mela
A well written, nice storytelling and for most of the time enjoyable. As a side effect - one can learn a bit of history.

But it was, subjectively, a long listening (from LibriVox). And I must confess, sometimes I lost interest (I caught myself a few times on thinking about something else when I was listening to it). I have the feeling that in this case - reading it by myself would have been a better solution.
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Dis
May 18, 2017 marked it as to-read
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Jun 25, 2017 marked it as to-read
Sharon
Aug 14, 2017 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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Dec 11, 2017 marked it as to-read
Kavan
Mar 20, 2020 rated it it was ok  ·  review of another edition
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Feb 05, 2022 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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