The king's Coat (Lewrie series book 1)

Always said I would try to get threads up on each specific book and here is a start.

For the moment I'll just take .. Check that, I'll try to just paraphrase as back cover book blurbs may cause problems -EDIT-

A 17 year old Allan Lewrie was raising holy hell in merry old England in 1780. Until that is his "lord father" scotched it with a plan of his own.....

Alan ends up on the Royal Navy ship Ariadne and soon learns the good, and the bad of being a sailor in the Kings Navy. The America's war is calling and Alan Lewrie is there, and then some.
His antics for the fairer sex while in port was not to be stopped even then, but in the end Lewrie may just have found his calling in life, even being a "Rakehell" in this era.

Now this series is NOT for everyone, but when I first flipped open the book I was rather interested in this different "take" of Lambdin in an Age of Fighting Sail series, starting with this book.

Cheers, now remember that some of our members have not read this or any other of this series, so use the "spoiler" mechanic if you post something very key to the book. But "in general" and a few specifics would be ok for the most part.

If you do, or don't like this book (or series even, heaven forbid!!, LOL), I'd like to see some specific reasons why or why not, but lets keep this thread on the "up and up" either way please, is all I ask.

I'll post more of my thoughts when/if I get any interest and replies to this books thread.

Link to the site review

http://www.historicnavalfiction.com/index.php/book-title-index/t/793

Cheers

Tom

Having read all of Aubrey/Maturin, HH and the first two books of Bolitho, I really enjoyed Lambdin's Midshipman Lewrie. He's a totally different sort of character from the ones in the other books. He doesn't want to be there and it's against his own better (?) judgement that he begins to become a fine young officer.

Having just read the second book, I find it a very interesting character trait that he seems to see himself as a much worse person than the rest of the world and look forward to following his adventures and finding out who is right.

Thanks for the post Joe, I wonder if it was actaullly that common for "young gentlemen" to be "put" into a midshipmans birth.

Not those circumstances naturally, but did some families just "dump" some of their sons into the British Navy at that time.

As I recall first sons got into the British Army, then second sons might join the Navy, or at least it was expected of them for some families??

Either way I think Lambdin nailed the spoiled your lordling Rake in that mind set of Alans.

But sly enought to learn as much as he can in the circumstances that he found himself forced into.

The interplay of Alans thoughts really seemed like something a person with that personality in this first book.

Cheers, and he even grew up, but just a bit though from these circumstances.

Tom