Patrick O'Brian's 13th in the series, the Thirteen-Gun Salute is a bit disappointing. I felt as if I had stepped into the middle of a book rather than entering into a new one. In many real ways, I did. We meet our captain and his crew shipwrecked on an island (where we left them in the previous book). And at the end, well, I won't spoil it but I didn't get the feeling that we'd finished anything.
Yes, there were several bright spots of really good writing and overall, the book just doesn't seem to stand on its own the way some of the earlier ones had.
