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This book is a real turning point in this series. Before this book, everything is just about space battle. Our beloved Honor Harrington is just the pawn in the midst of the power play. This book marks when it started to differ. Dame Honor just liberated an entire prison planet and became one of the most decorated (and living) heroes in two systems. And she deserve to take a break after all her ordeals.
The beginning is a bit domestic, a warm hero welcome, plus an even warmer family reunion. Fort ...more
The beginning is a bit domestic, a warm hero welcome, plus an even warmer family reunion. Fort ...more
3.5 stars. After reading almost the whole series, I feel a little like I've ODed on popcorn and chocolate. A maddening mix of boring military tactics and military hardware descriptiions, paper cutout characters, and sugary sentimentalism, they have just enough genuine empathy and suspense to keep one going. This one did better than the last in maintaining tension and suspense but then roared to a very disappointing and anti-climactic ending.
The politics have just enough similarity to what is goi ...more
The politics have just enough similarity to what is goi ...more
Another rip-roaring entry in the Honor Harrington series. The beginning is a little slow (there's some wading through all the accolades that Honor reacquires and earns anew, as well as bringing the reader up to speed on the political situation) but the story picks up quickly. Weber continues widening the scope of the books and spends time focusing on other characters and developments in the Honorverse, particularly Scotty Tremaine and the LACs. The ending is, as always, a bang-up job of battles
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"Oops!"
Sometimes, you just have to say "good play", even when its the "bad guys".
I hated this book for the emotional toll it takes on its readers, especially when augmented by "Nightfall" (a novelette in the Honorverse anthology Changer of Worlds) which explains exactly what happens between chapters 33 & 34.
There is good, bad and very ugly, with many ups and significant downs, leaving a feeling of exhaustion, frustration and a desire to read more...
Alright, Weber...What's going to happen nex ...more
Sometimes, you just have to say "good play", even when its the "bad guys".
I hated this book for the emotional toll it takes on its readers, especially when augmented by "Nightfall" (a novelette in the Honorverse anthology Changer of Worlds) which explains exactly what happens between chapters 33 & 34.
There is good, bad and very ugly, with many ups and significant downs, leaving a feeling of exhaustion, frustration and a desire to read more...
Alright, Weber...What's going to happen nex ...more
Sep 03, 2011
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I love Shannon Foraker. "Oops."
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Reread. Nice politics. Not overly focused on Honor which is goo.
Wow! The landscape of the Honorverse really changed in this book, and much of it surprised me. I'm not sure where the story is headed now, but this was one of the more satisfying books in the series.
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Oct 24, 2011
Snail in Danger (Sid) Nicolaides
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Upgraded to 4 stars because the political insanity being on the upswing makes me squee. (2011 October)
The thrill in reading the Honor books is gone, but this latest is good enough
Rambling, disjointed mess.
Oct 05, 2010
Ellie
marked it as to-read
Feb 23, 2012
Brian Jones
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Apr 11, 2012
Stuart
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