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This thread is intended for reviews and ratings of SeaFire by members of the The Blades Library Book Club here. Be sure to add your review if you do vote in the poll!

The Blades Library Book Club will be reading SeaFire from: 15 August 2008 - 15 October 2008

I finished reading this about two weeks ago after having completed "Never Send Flowers" before that.

"SeaFire" isn't the best Gardner I've read (admittely, I haven't read many) but it wasn't terrible by any means. I think I've yet to read a terrible piece of Bond literature, anyway. The book features some very original ideas & plot points. For one, James Bond is no longer part of what we have always known as MI6. Secondly, he is now very much in love and we even see him propose for the first time in twenty some years. In short, the novel contains a lot of interesting and well-designed ideas that I'd love to see in the films at some point, such as the ones mentioned above, though with Craig's Bond just starting off it probably wouldn't make sense to employ them any time soon.

The opening scenes aboard the Caribbean Prince play out like a classic pre-title sequence and I'd love to see Q Branch's Powerchute vehicle realized on screen someday. The ending reminds me very much of "OHMSS" except that this time around, the leading lady doesn't actually die, although with the way she ends up, she probably would be better off if she had. I've heard COLD resolves the issue of Flicka (I already know what happens to her) but I've heard that book is one of the worst so I probably won't be reading it.

3/5 stars

twas a treat to read SEAFIRE when it first came out. 5 out of 5 for me.

I read this one a while ago, and don't have sharp-clear memories, but I do remember one thing: I thought Bond was a damned amateur bastard when handling the end of his mission. He consciously refused to report and get some help when he could, preferring to go after the Villain alone. This was very unprofessional, since the success of the mission was at stakes, as was the security of his partner, and he had no other justification for doing so than his ego. If he had been one of my men, I would have seriously kicked his !
So I must say: the end really pissed me off!

Wow

Yeah. I know, I don't look like that...

Infatti, sei molto piu bella se posso dire

Ahem... Spero che non ci sono molti Italiani su questo forum...
Così, capisco che ti piacciono meglio le "-kicking" donne? Interessante... "Sigmund Freud, analyze this!"

Ti do la mia parola che mi piaci comme sei, carra. Lunica cosa che mi ha dispiacuto e che non avevamo molto tempo insieme. Comme hai detto perro - un altro tempo, un altro posto.