*g* I enjoy your reviews, though I don't comment often. This time you have pointed to one of the few flaws in the books. Jack's middies have even less of a life span than the red shirts in Star Trek. ;D
Oh, I wouldn't call it a flaw in the books. I, too, generally share Aubrey's philosophical stance in favor of dead children.
Really, the books are about one man's eugenic mission to ensure that the next generation's British nobles are both bloodthirsty and unkillable. I imagine Lord Kinderly Fairaxle of Shorpshire waking up in his bed in 1865 in a cold sweat.
"That nice man Captain Aubrey was trying to murder me!"
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I enjoy your reviews, though I don't comment often. This time you have pointed to one of the few flaws in the books. Jack's middies have even less of a life span than the red shirts in Star Trek.
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Really, the books are about one man's eugenic mission to ensure that the next generation's British nobles are both bloodthirsty and unkillable. I imagine Lord Kinderly Fairaxle of Shorpshire waking up in his bed in 1865 in a cold sweat.
"That nice man Captain Aubrey was trying to murder me!"
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Oh, I must protest. ;D Captain Aubrey never murders his middies. He merely expects them to do men's work
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