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Summary: The continuing saga of Honor Harrington
Review: The first 11 chapters of this book are available for free online at BAEN.COM and wow - does it look good. Honor continues to mature in professional expertise and the book provides suprising insight into what makes a good 'Flag' officer. I own over 1000 science fiction books and this episode of this series joins one of a very few I will purchase (and keep!) in hardcover.
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Summary: The Latest and greatest Honor Harrington from David Weber
Review: In the series Honor has gradually matured and we now see her more as a trainer and mover and shaker than as a fleet commander.Well Honor's friends and Manicore and its allies strike back. With their new weapons they are victorious but a assassination and the consequent political turmoil drifts ashes over the victory. DW has terminated the Muller thread, the Summervale thread, the whole Commitee of Public Safety thread, probably the McQueen thread, the Shannon comes of age thread, the Giscard and his secret lover thread. It is true that the Frisbee thread is still going strong and IMO it would be better to have the White Haven/HH thread stuffed down the back of the acceleration couch but there is still lots left for the next books in 18 months time - start saving now.
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Summary: Wonderful, but....
Review: David Weber has done it again. Ashes of Victory is agood solid read, one I will be rereading often. The only problem I had with the whole book was it ended too soon, and some story lines didn't get tied up at the end. Guess that is for the next book. So I say : "Write David, write!"
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Summary: A Victory for Ashes
Review: David Weber has once again captured the hearts of the Honor Harrington fans. Ashes of Victory picks up right where Echoes of Honor ended and flows with pure grace. David Weber's perfect descriptions of people (two legged and six legged . . . for those of you who know what I mean) and space combat keeps the readers attention. This is perhaps the best Harrington novel so far. Please, Mr. Weber, speaking for all fans, We Want More Honor!
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Summary: The return of Honor Harrington
Review: The number 1 pain in the Republic of Haven's side has returned to her home(s). Ashes of Victory starts within a few hours of where Echos of Honor ended. Honor returns to Grayson aboard her namesake, GNS Honor Harrington, where she mets her baby sister and brother. Nothing she can say will change what the Grayson's had done to 'honor' her with. Honor has luck from her point of view from her other home world, Manticore, into getting some of the 'honors' renamed. While Honor is recouping from her injuries, she is given command of the Advance Tactical School and promoted to Admiral. Honor prevents Saint-Just's assassination attempt against Queen Elizabeth but cannot prevent the second prong of the attack from happening. We say a fond fareware to the Duke of Cromarty. And we can say good ridence to Saint-Just, McQueen, Pierre, and Lord Mueller. After the Duke's untimely death brings the opposition into power in Manticore's politics and they force the Queen into accepting the 'red-herring' cease-fire agreement from Haven. We have not seen the last book in the series and it seems to be getting better with each release in it. Stay tuned and see what happens in future books in the series.
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Summary: Yet Another Fine Installment in the Harrington Series
Review: David Weber's "Ashes of Victory" may have the least number of space battles in any of the Honor Harrington novels I've read, but he more than makes up for the lack of action with suspensful, riveting descriptions of political life and the royal families of Manticore and Grayson. Honor Harrington finds herself promoted to full admiral in the Royal Manticoran Navy and assigned to a "desk" job at the naval academy, teaching tactics to midshipmen, including a few from Alliance worlds such as Grayson and Erewhon. She must also contend with Nimitz's health problems - as well as her own - stemming from their capture and imprisonment by the Peeps. Meanwhile Admiral Esther McQueen, the People's Republic of Haven's Secretary of War becomes involved in political turmoil and strife both at home, on Haven, and also involving her subordinates, most notably admirals Giscard and Tourville. Indeed, there is as much political intrigue depicted on Haven as there is on Grayson and Manticore. Finally Admiral Hamish Alexander, Earl of White Haven, leads his Eighth Fleet on a daring campaign deep within the People's Republic, unleashing several new - and extremely deadly - weapons systems against the Peeps. Weber has written yet another fine installment in the Honor Harrington series, providing the setting for the next novel, "War of Honor".
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Summary: Small bump, but still very good
Review: I've enjoyed this series tremendously, for its characterization of Harrington, and of course, it's fast paced military action, tactics and strategy. In this book, though, Weber gets a bit side tracked. I wouldn't go quite so far as to say he becomes Robert Jordan-ized ("Wheel of time" series--caught in molasses), but some 400 pages go by in this 635 page book with little happening. The first part of the book, you feel, was what might've ended the prior book. Ok. Take a little time. Weep and regroup. Honor's home. Then the slow pace continues for several hundred more pages. For instance, there's a good bit of a chapter devoted to Honor interviewing her lawyer! Well, that's exciting. And others on how she sets up her new house, etc. Characterization is one thing, but this is a bit of overkill. Not that all the bits are bad or boring--it's just that there are too many of them, to the point where they dominate the book rather than provide a subplot or interesting sideline. A little editing would've gone down good here. Still, a lot to like. You'll still want to read it if you're a Harrington fan. And like I say---the Robert Jordan analogy occurred to me (he, the author who became full of himself and starting writing a never-ending series that moved like molasses and angered original fans), but it's nowhere near that bad.
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Summary: Not bad, but not as good as the early books
Review: I like the Honor Harrington series a lot, but this book is starting to burn me out with the treecats and the new technology and the politics. I don't mind any of it in small doses, but when being cute and multistage missiles and petty arguments between petty people drive the plot, I start to lose interest. To be blunt, I liked Honor when she was just a captain or squadron commander. This simple fact put her in very interesting situations. However, I find that her extremely rapid rise to Fleet Admiral kind of spoiled the fun of deep space engagements (which I hate to say are becoming few and far between.) In most situations, the Fleet Admiral flies a desk at HQ while the down and dirty stuff (at least in a tactical command sense) is handled by the commanders, captains, commodores and rear Admirals. Also, while I'm at it. I wish the author would tone down the honorariums about Honor. I like the character without being reminded for the 1000000th time that she was once ugly and now considered beautiful or her black dead eyes. I get the message--she is a looker who can rip out my throat without remorse. Still a good book if you enjoy the series, though.
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Summary: Too Fragmented and Wandering
Review: Probably my least favorite of the Honor Harrington books. While Weber tries to expand on his universe, and make it focus an things other then Honor, it seems to jump from point to point with no focus. Also, it was flat-out boring in many parts. As far as I am concerned, the number of times Honor has saved the entire Manticore Monarchy is starting to get a bit ridiculous. However, the ending did save the book from a two-star review.
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