KING'S CHAMELEON, THE (A Kit Faulkner Naval Adventure, 3)

Writers of nautical fiction have focused on the Napoleonic Wars. Twenty-odd years of continuous fighting makes for rich material...and if you time it right, your protagonist gets to fight in the American Revolution as well. And Woodman is no stranger to those waters.

However, he took a very different approach to the Kit Faulkner stories...the Stuart Navy and Anglo-Dutch wars. Very different. Far more political with the English Civil War, and a Navy that was far less organized. And rarely tackled. Potentially great. Unfortunately, Woodman is very episodic in all three books. There's a distinct air of understanding that he's got the material for a 8-12 volume series...but is unsure he'll live long enough to write them. So he crammed everything into three volumes, doing the material an injustice.

These are good books...but the period really demands a longer series. A younger author could do far worse than to work in this period.

This trilogy is good, but I think that Woodman's other series about Nathaniel Drinkwater is much better. But this does cover a period of history that has been largely forgotten by authors, and it is now finally starting to get some coverage.

This is the final novel of the Kit Faulkner series. It is easily as good as the first two novels but I was sad to finish it since there are no more in the series and it is darker in tone than the first two.

Although Woodman writes fiction he provides the reader with a sense of the times and the feeling of history. The play of raw power and deplomacy of the time.

Good story . . . book in good condition . . .

Have not heaved time to read I buy because of the author

His vocabulary was a little to much for me.

Every good author is entitled to write a clunker and, for me, this was Mr. Woodman's clunker. It seemed throughout the book that the author never really settled on how he wanted this story to play out. After a little over 100 pages, I realized that I was primarily still reading it to see how Faulkner's story ended because I had given up hope that I would find this book entertaining. One problem is that, although billed as a "Kit Faulkner naval adventure", there is very little that actually takes place aboard ship. I liked that he included the Edmund Drinkwater character, obviously meant to be an ancestor of Nathaniel Drinkwater. The Drinkwater series I liked from start to finish. I can't say the same for the Faulkner series.

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