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Mar 16, 2020
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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) ...more
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) ...more

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. ...more
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. ...more

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