Captain from Castile

Kinda a three star. Read this long ago and loved the adventure, but there were a couple things that knocked off stars in my book.

–The hero has a child with his mistress out of wedlock, and she has so little value of herself that she refuses to marry him because she isn't good enough. Then she thinks she loses a child because she sinned by having her affair with him. The making of the child is told in language just short of graphic, so not suitable for younger readers.

–Big issue: it's actually stated that a woman needs to be punished by her husband to keep her in line; the hero leaves marks of a belt on his wife's rear and his mother approves.

Otherwise, grand adventure and a memorable plot.