Sharpe’s Storm Bernard Cornwell


 In 1978 Bernard Corneell was working for the BBC in Northern Ireland where he net his second wife, she had a young children back home in the US and didn't want to relocate so it was he who relocated to bring the family together. 

Living in the US with savings slowly dwindling away and unable to get a green card which would allow him to seek work he sat down to write his first novel. Sharpe’s Eagle, this is the first outing of our hero Richard Sharpe and while it's complete fiction it's a great yarn about a Sargent who saves Wellingtons life gets promotion to Lieutenant and then captures a French Eagle touched by Napoleon in battle. Initialy published in the US and then further afield the character became legend and there were two books published a year by the author until recently. 

I've read 24 of these stories, I've followed Sharpe across India, the Iberian peninsula, France and the field at a Waterloo. Spending hours with the characters Harper, Hagman, Perkins, Teresa and Harris when I pick up a Sharpe book it's like being reunited with old friends. Ok I'll admit that the stories are very similar at their base Sharpe has a mission, Sharpe struggles and the it all comes good in the end and they March into the sunset ready to battle again. But that's also the comfort, the fact that before you even start you know it's going to be a good ending. 

would I recommend them, well 24 of them is going to be a commitment so I would say give one a go and see. I would recommend Sharpe’s Enemy it's in Cornwell’s sweet spot it's not too early that it's a lot of information crammed in and it's not too late that the characters are well known and set. Then if you like it read them in linear order IE story timeline order as you'll see the character develop and how events mould him into the person he becomes. 

I'm I go I g to recommend Sharpe’s Storm well after 24 yes, I would recommend you pick it up but look out for the others as they come up often for sale at bargain prices. 

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Have fun stay safe πŸ‘

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