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Summary: A whole world
Review: Weber gives us a whole galaxy, not just the highlights. I like the the way he adds so much detail to the rest of the characters. It is much more than just Honor Harrington. While I have to admit the story does drag a bit, it is overall quite good. Since the begining of the series Weber has explained what has been happening to the other characters and the political happenings and why. This latest book has so much depth I can't wait for the next one.
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Summary: Turmoil exponential in Honorland--Gotta love the Chaos!
Review: Frankly, having read all of Mr. Weber's Honor books, I've found this one to be seriously addictive. Although the plots involved appear to be scattered like birdshot, they give a feeling of depth to the "Honorverse" referred to by another reviewer. The whole of it doesn't revolve around Honor, nor should it, in a work of this scale. There were enough cliffhangers left at the end of the book to assure hordes of slavering Honor addicts will be buying the follow-on books by the gross. It's good to see literature wherein strong moral fibre and dedication to duty are made to look desirable. Thanks, Mr. Weber.
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Summary: Honor in transition
Review: I have to agree with the "pack" that this was one of those (rare) Harrington books I had trouble getting through. The beginning was full of long anticipated reunions and the ending was full of tantilizing clues to future action, but the middle of the book seemed to drag. The series appears to be at a transition point--Honor is no longer the underdog fighting for recognition and the political situation seems about to shift dramitically. David Weber has fast become one of my favorite authors and he has created a group of memorable and likeable main characters. His challenge is to keep them "real" dispite his and their success. I look forward to the next "installment".
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Summary: Transition? Yes, but Still a Great Book
Review: Ashes of Victory is a transition novel. There's no getting around it. But just because it's setting the stage for a whole 'nother direction in the Honorverse doesn't mean that it's not a great book. There is an extraordinary amount of stuff going on in this book, and we lose track of our heroine more than once, but Weber has taken Honor and her world to the next level and it's unavoidable that we leave her and look at other areas of her world in order to have a complete perspective. If you can't deal with it, stick with OBS and be happy. It was inevitable. More importantly, Ashes of Victory shows Weber at the peak of his unique abilities: playing the reader's emotions "like a Stradivarius," to quote his own simile from the seventh HH. I grinned throughout the entire scene where Honor is promoted, I spent nights wondering what the future held for Honor and Earl White Haven, I cursed throughout the entire last three chapters of the book-events depicted therein were so *bad* for Honor and Co.-and at the end of the book I couldn't wait for the next one because I had/have such a desperate need to find out what happens. Honor is all grown up now, and her world has grown up with her. The book is long, it does gloss over some things which could have been gone over in more detail, and it does contain a lot more people and events than those that center around our yeoman's daughter from Sphinx. It does have flaws (largest among them the great difficulty the reader has in determining how long it's been between scene A and scene B), but it was great anyway.
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Summary: Setting the stage
Review: This book often seems to be a preface for the next book - stage setting or catching of the breath for the next major action. I agree with other reviewers that some sections were glossed over too lightly. In a perfect world, Mr. Weber would have the opportunity to write whole books on things that were touched on in this one.However, I can hardly wait to see where the story goes next! And this book simply whets my appetite for more.
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Summary: Fast action, politically charged, terrific space adventure.
Review: David Weber's titles are recommended picks for any who enjoyfast action, politically charged plots, and space adventure. His newAshes Of Victory tells of a woman's escape from a prison planet, which provides a huge lift for the Allies morale. Her actions will place her at the heart of new struggles and will endanger all who know her.
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Summary: 300 Pages Too Long
Review: Mr Weber must have been paid by the word for this novel. It could have been a great read except for all of the padding. I guess Mr Weber's editor was on vacation.
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Summary: ASHES OF VICTORY
Review: I was looking forward to reading this book because I had really like the other Honor books in this series. But only 25% of this book was about Honor and the rest got all tied up in politics and other minor charictors that I was not interested in reading about. I was disappointed in this book.
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Summary: not the best in the series but a long way from bad...
Review: Honor Harrington is back and if the "Peeps" thought she was trouble before, imagine what she can do now as an admiral! I have enjoyed all of the HH series and was not disappointed in this one a bit and I, for one, am glad to see Honor getting out of the line of fire a bit more than in the past. Despite Admiral Harrington not being directly involved, (at least to the degree she has been in the past), some of her old comrades are, and not all of them make it to the end of the book. The "treecats" figure even more heavily than they have in the past...I wonder who the first treecat to become an officer in Manticorian Space Navy will be? If you enjoy science fiction or, for that matter, military fiction, and are not reading the Honor Harrington series, you are missing a big bet. (You don't have to start with the first book, "Balisk Station" but you should) Honor Harrington is one of the best fictional characters around......
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Summary: It could have been better
Review: Ashes of Victory was not the best book of the series, but it was not the worst. I agree with most people that I would rather see the swashbuckling captain ripe the life out of the enemy in an all or nothing, hopless, against the odds shoot'em up kill'em now gunfight. BUT this book and the others of the series are not all about that. For example the consept of the story is right out of the French Revolution and Robespiere's reigh of terror in the latter 1700's. The intregue has moved past the mere action and has turn into an epic consept of Empire's and individual stories. It is abvious to me that Honor will be an active part of the next Government on Manticore and her former subordinates will take the helms of the new warship's and hey maybe a showdown with the Solarian Legue itself. It is too bad the the people who will stop reading the stories because blood and guts are no longer the only avenue of success, will miss the good stories and developed charactures. I hope David Weber will spin the series off to focus on Scotty, Raef, Allistor and the rest of her people in books that will represent his talents. Yes, it could have been better, but it was very good instead!
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