did I miss something?
Jul. 4th, 2005 11:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
adrian_turtleBy this time, I should be accustomed to Aubrey-Maturin books ending with a bit of a thump. There's a huge complicated buildup, and then the cliffhanger suddenly resolves at the very end of the book. I finished _The Thirteen Gun Salute_ yesterday, and it didn't seem to follow quite the same pattern. One plot element was resolved well before the end of the book, and another was left hanging, just stranded there like it was going to be resolved in the next book. Ok...I am with these guys for the long haul, so I can be [a little] patient.
This morning, I started _The Truelove_. After setting the scene (back on the Surprise) there was a rather entertaining infodump about Stephen's adventures with a platypus, but no hint of how our shipmates had managed to escape their predicament off Batavia. WTF? And furthermore. Huh?
This morning, I started _The Truelove_. After setting the scene (back on the Surprise) there was a rather entertaining infodump about Stephen's adventures with a platypus, but no hint of how our shipmates had managed to escape their predicament off Batavia. WTF? And furthermore. Huh?
