Brook's Reviews > Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny

Way, way, way longer in exposition than it needed to be. I got why the author wanted to explain the background, but there are whole chapters of exposition that do nothing to tell the story or provide relevant background (there are whole chapters that give life histories of folks in the book that have nothing to do with the story itself).