Rebel

The Nathaniel Starbuck Chronicles: Book One

By: Bernard Cornwell

Narrated by: Andrew Cullum

Length: 16 hrs and 50 mins

Publisher's summary

A riveting and compelling account of Nate's initial Civil War experience—its battles, romances and divided loyalties

When Richmond landowner Washington Faulconer snatches young Nate Starbuck from the grip of a Yankee-hating mob, Nate is both grateful and awed by his idealistic rescuer. Turning his back forever on the life he left in Boston, Nate agrees to join the newly formed Faulconer's Legion, even though it means fighting against his native North.

But Nate's dilemma is only one of many within the Legion. Faulconer's own son cannot bring himself to fight, while his daughter's cheating fiancee plots for control of the Faulconer family fortune. As they come together to march into battle, the men are prepared to start a war…but they aren't ready for how they—and the nation—will be forever changed by the oaths they have sworn for their beloved South

©2009 Bernard Cornwell (P)2022 HarperCollins Publishers

Entertaining

Engaging and informative. Great narration. Depictions of the Civil War were interesting. Will check our sequels.

slow burn

it takes awhile to get into the book I found myself drifting and having to rewind in the beginning but it gets really good so worth it

Slow to start but worth the wait.

It took me a while to get into it, but from reading other series by this author I knew I'd enjoy it once all the characters were developed and the storyline started to unfold. I didn't care for the didn't character voices by the performer so I think that distracted me. Look forward to the rest of the series now, though.

Great story!

At first I wasn’t sure how I felt about someone with an English accent narrating a book about the American Civil War. But the narrator really did a great job bringing all of these interesting, imperfect characters to life.
It’s a great story about how life doesn’t always go the way you want it to, but you carry on anyway.
And that sometimes you learn the most about who you really are during those trials. The characters developed so much over the course of this book, that I am eager to see how much farther they come in the next book.
Outstanding story by an outstanding author.

The writing is very good and the story is well developed.

I question the judgement to use a British narrator, particularly in this case, as his American accents are awful and cartoonish.

Great story

Bernard Cornwell never disappoints. This is the third of his series I have started and each one has been brilliant.

Great reader great boys

Another hit from the best author ever!!!! I always look forward to reading this books

what???

why is an English accent preferable to all others?Let me say I am a big Cornwall fan but this performance tears the heart out of the story.over accentuated words, poor attempts at accents to name a few annoyances. I downloaded this in a hurry before a long trip and listening to it was a bigger aggrevation than the lack of leg room

Boring, worst listen of the year

I just couldn’t get into this book the dialogue was the worst it just did not flow it took forever to get anywhere in fact it was taking so long I just gave up, to ease my suffering this dull novel

Ehh

Until the battle this book had me falling asleep. Was very excited to read more Cornwell, being a big fan of the sharpe series but this was intensely slow and I found the main character annoying. Would not recommend