The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

3.5 stars

I don't know. For a book with shipwrecks, castaways, scurvy, mutiny and cannibalism, I still had to force myself through this. It might have been me. I was expecting more of a page-turning thriller.
Instead, I got more of a plethora of men's egos. I DID love learning where several expressions we still use today came from, i.e. “toe the line”. It was also fun that two of the characters had famous relatives (maybe Kidd, and definitely Byron).