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3.0 out of 5 stars
Noble attempt to repeat "Scaramouche",
By Merrill Gee "good story lover" (Salt Lake City, Utah United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
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This review is from: Master-At-Arms (Paperback)
I enjoyed this novel, also titled "The Master of Carabas", but it is not nearly as good as "Scaramouche". I think Sabatini was hoping to repeat his earlier success and many of the elements are there. Again we have a hero of doubtful paternity who is caught up in the events of the French Revolution. While Scaramouche takes place at the beginning of the Revolution, this story takes place at its height, but after the fall of Robespierre, and, hence, after the worst of the terror is over.
The author gives us a very good picture of rural France at that time of the Revolution which is one of the strong points of the novel. Another is Sabatini's handling of the romance between hero and heroine--something which Sabatini does better than most historical novelists, certainly a great deal better than Scott. Another strong point is the description of sword-play--a Sabatini specialty--unfortunately, in this novel, limited to the early part of the novel. What the novel lacks is the Sabatini hero that drives the action. Because the hero is involved with a military campaign that failed, he takes on a role largely of a complainer. As the novel becomes bogged down in the details of a campaign that suffers from one blunder after another after almost endless arguing and backstabing, even the sword-play disappears from the action. The novel has, in my opinion, a very satisfying ending, but it doesn't quite make up for the lack of real action in the last half of the novel.
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