Please note that no points were deducted for the murder of accents throughout the recording, as I have finally made my piece with such savagery.
So, I liked it. It was a fun story of revenge on a bunch of murderous pirates by by a lovable Irish rogue. John Sullivan and his family were captured by Barbary pirates when he was just five years old, and sold into slavery. John escaped, making his way to the US, where he spent his days seeking revenge and saving whichever of his family still breathes. A fortuitous card game gets him some much-needed sponds, and his adventure begins, although it certainly doesn’t go smoothly.
John and his crew are a likeable bunch, and the narrator does a good job of passing this off, while there are some jerks trying to stop him, equally made obvious. The narrator also knocks out a baudy shanty or two, which made me chuckle heartily. The author does try to insert some big topics into the story which, while certainly worthy, get a little lost in the shuffle and seem a bit out of place. Perhaps they even make the novel a little longer than necessary.
Good fun though, worth a listen or a read, and come close to a solid 3.5 stars, but not quite.