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Summary: Weber delivers again!
Review: After 9 books in the series you would think that Weber has run out his topic, but here is the story still going strong. Some reviewers thing there isn't enough "action" but that is not justified. More of the "action" they crave would just make it a rehash of the earlier books in the series and that is not what this is.It is well understood by now the Weber is drawing much of his inspiration from the C. S. Forester novels (check the acknowledgements). However, it is also clear that Weber is drawing from current events as well. For example: * Evil and hypocritical politicians use sexual innuendo to cynically damage an opponent -- and it turns out that the "false" rumors have some truth in them that makes them no less unfair? * A weak chief executive wants to isolate the nation and act unilaterally, thereby alienating all the nation's allies, and further bumbles into war that was avoidable? * The elevation of "chickenhawks" who have no real military experience but many political connections to oversee the operation and budget of the military with disastrous result? My guess is that Weber's politics in real life are centrist. He goes out of his way to make sure it is never the ultra-conservatives or the ultra-liberals that are always in the wrong. Perhaps the best part of Weber's writing is that he has excellent empathy for the "bad guy" in the story, rarely flattening them out to two dimensions. There are other examples where the story follows real life, but I want to point out a serious flaw that stems from real life. A big part of the story is based on what amounts to selective and malicious alternation of electronic mail. You would think that empires and republics that have mastered interstellar travel and AI systems would have equally mastered public encryption keys and digital signatures, a technology invented in the 20th century! Sheesh. But if you can get around that particular "suspension of disbelief, this is a great story. Well worth following.
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Summary: Loved This! You will too...
Review: I know this is like book 10 in a series. but. This is the first one I actually bought and read. I liked this so much I went back and got a few of the others. Pretty good scifi and I don't normally read a lot of scifi.
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Summary: too much talk not enough action
Review: Very different from previous books which I greatly enjoyed - where the politics were definitely supportive to the action - in this book, there is all too little action, and what little there is seems incidental to the politics.
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Summary: A review for the included CD-ROM
Review: OK, so this isn't a review for the book itself---but for the price of the hardback, you also get a CD-ROM of the books in the Baen Free Library. Sure, you could download them...if you have a highspeed connection, or a lot of time to kill while you watch grass grow. There's no tedious encoding, no passwords, nothing between you and a whole plethora of books by authors you might not otherwise have tried. These aren't 'who heard of thems' either---the books on the CD include the entire Honor Harrington saga and all of the Baen toplist authors. Worth buying the book just to get the CD!
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Summary: Lengthy and slow
Review: I found this book to be a disappointment. It was much too long and had far too many subplots. I have enjoyed most of the Honor Harrington books, but this one diverges from the usual without adding to the series. Honor is in love, but we are supposed to believe she is naieve as a teenager about it and its consequences. There are side plots that have very little to do with the story. The battles that we have come to expect don't occur until the very end of the book. The book ends with most of the conflict unresolved.
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Summary: Arrgh! 760 pages before the first shot is fired..
Review: Skip forward in your reading list if you are looking for a story.
This book spends the first 400 pages dealing with a minor political incident, even by todays standards.. Another 100 pages or so on deployment. A minor skermish and then finally. A whopping 75 pages on "Honor in action" The last page hint of the next book wasn't so subtile either. *sigh*
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Summary: Little Honor
Review: This is the weakest of the Honor books. Way to much character dialog that has been done before. Very little action. And most important....VERY little of Honor herself. Mr. Weber, please return to the dialog & action of the other Honor books & rember why we buy the "Honor" series. Hint......that would be for HONOR!
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Summary: After finding an online copy .......
Review: After i had the oppritunity to read an online copy of the first 6 chapters of this book ; I WILL BE definatly adding it to my collections of David Weber books. I cant emagine all the negative feedback. It set the stage for future novels of our favorite heroine. Duchess Harrington will be back with a vengence I'm sure ... OH we can't forget our favorite "cat"
Nitmitz.....
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Summary: The master stumbles....
Review: I am a big fan of David Weber's books but this one is just not worth reading. Extremely wordy with lots of irrelevant points, you really have to be tough to slog through this brick. Might have been a good read if it was about 600 pages shorter. Take my advice, give it a miss and go read some Jack Vance. Now there is a man who can pack a story in!
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Summary: More is not enough
Review: I have put up with long winded back stories in the middle of the story because Weber is great with dialog and action . . . when he gets around to them. But I had hoped for less of the former and more of the latter in this latest installment after Ashes of Victory. I can only hope that now that the gloves are off (and the MDMs are flying) that we can get back to some good old fashioned space opera fleet engagements with Honor squarely in the heroic hot seat, where she seems to be heading, and where she belongs. Frankly, I enjoyed the short story anthology "Changer of Worlds" more than I did this overlong novella. Give us back the kick-[rear] warrior, and ditch the noblewoman suffering from interminable heartache.
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