MichaelJoseph reviewed Ransom by Lee Rowan
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3 stars
The historical detail about ships and the Royal Navy in this book is amazing, but unfortunately, for me, this throws up some shortcomings in the development of the characters themselves. In particular, we're given to understand, quite obliquely, that one of the main characters, David, is suffering from the torturous attentions from their captor, yet all that's really described is what amounts to a bad date. I'm all for leaving things to the reader's imagination, but in this case I think we're expected to guess at too much and the characters come off as two dimensional drama queens, when they could be much more.