Fun book, though I did find myself struggling to get through it. Not sure why, maybe it was just my mood, because I LOVE pirates. Entertaining, swashbuckling, easy to read, nice details about ships and sea battles without being ponderous or obscure. ( )

Old style romantic adventure with love but not explicit sex, violence but not graphic. Didn't know about prisoners from Monmouth rebellion being sold as slaves.

Fun exciting classic adventure story. Captain Blood starts as a Doctor. Arrested for helping a rebel, he becomes a prisoner, slave, pirate and governor. There is also a love interest. ( )

Captain Blood is THE MAN ! A soldier, a doctor, a pirate, a lover, and even a politician. He does it all, which makes for a very fun, lively and interesting read. ( )

This review is for this audiobook edition only; see my paperback edition for my thoughts on the novel itself.
4.5*
Robert Whitfield (aka Simon Vance) is one of my favorite narrators, particularly for classics. He doesn't disappoint in this historical fiction about 1760s England & Caribbean. However, perhaps because I first encountered this story via the Errol Flynn/Olivia de Havilland film, I found that I preferred my experience reading this to that of listening to it. Whitfield's various voices for the characters were well done (Peter Blood's Irish accent was specially good) but they weren't the voices I was used to and several times I found that I had lost the thread of the story. So in this case, the audiobook loses a ½ star instead of gaining one...

Merged review:

This review is for this audiobook edition only; see my paperback edition for my thoughts on the novel itself.
4.5*
Robert Whitfield (aka Simon Vance) is one of my favorite narrators, particularly for classics. He doesn't disappoint in this historical fiction about 1760s England & Caribbean. However, perhaps because I first encountered this story via the Errol Flynn/Olivia de Havilland film, I found that I preferred my experience reading this to that of listening to it. Whitfield's various voices for the characters were well done (Peter Blood's Irish accent was specially good) but they weren't the voices I was used to and several times I found that I had lost the thread of the story. So in this case, the audiobook loses a ½ star instead of gaining one...

Merged review:

This review is for this audiobook edition only; see my paperback edition for my thoughts on the novel itself.
4.5*
Robert Whitfield (aka Simon Vance) is one of my favorite narrators, particularly for classics. He doesn't disappoint in this historical fiction about 1760s England & Caribbean. However, perhaps because I first encountered this story via the Errol Flynn/Olivia de Havilland film, I found that I preferred my experience reading this to that of listening to it. Whitfield's various voices for the characters were well done (Peter Blood's Irish accent was specially good) but they weren't the voices I was used to and several times I found that I had lost the thread of the story. So in this case, the audiobook loses a ½ star instead of gaining one... ( )