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The Honor of the Queen

The Honor of the Queen

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: David Weber is a true master.
Review: "The Honor of the Queen" is a triumph. There is simply no other word for the powerful effect of this book. His characters have so much depth, his descriptions have so much punch, and his vision has so much detail that you are drawn into the gravity well of a story from which even light could not escape.

I don't take the time to write on-line reviews of books I thought were "okay"; I'm submitting this review to tell anyone who loves a great story that the whole Honor Harrington series is well worth checking out.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Girlpower!!!
Review: A lot of sagas fall flat on their butts after #1 somehow they can never seem to retain the level of action and grit that is in the first. That is now the case with this one however, Honor is back and the lady is taking some names.

She is sent on a mission to a planet founded by religious zealots(from Idaho no less). Only there is one little problem that someone at the diplomatic crops forgot to mention these people hate women almost as much as the Talaban.

Now I know you want to see how honor gets herself out of this don't you? As always plently of action and the book never lets up.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: She's BAACK!!!!
Review: After On Basilisk station RMN Captain Honor harrington is back with a vengence. In the last book she had to deal with earning the respect of her new crew. This Time It's a Planet. Fighting both Haven and a new Player The Masadans She is fighting almost a millenium of Misogyny and religious zealots she has fight not only for her Honor(No Pun unless you want) and the honor of her queen( there's that pun again). Again David Weber brings Old style sea battles to outer space. Like before these books have a slow build to an exciting climax. if you read the first you'l want to read it again just to see how NImitz and the rest are doing. and Nimitz has an active role this time

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Honor wins one for women without being politically correct
Review: Another fine book from Weber. His Honor Harrington is one of those characters that you wind up really caring about. I would like to see her go up against Capt Picard, she could mop the floor with him without breaking a sweat. Highly recomended.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The #1 SCI-FI novel in the last ten years!!!!!!
Review: As a sub sailor I READ a LOT and Honor Harrington (the heroine) is one of the BEST books written. I have 3 copies and 2 are worn out! Way to go David Weber and I WANT MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I feel sorry for the Peeps!
Review: As I stated in my title I feel sorry for the Peeps as once again they are pitted against our very formible and lovable Honor Harrington.Honor Harrington this time must stop them from conquering the peaceful but backward planet of Grayson and she and Nimitz foil a assasination attempt on Grayson's leader in a gripping and very violent action sequence.This novel like the other ones in the series has all the right ingredients:above average universe-crafting and characterization.Weber's military action sequences are first-rate!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Painful to read but in the end a book of substance.
Review: At first, I thought "Oh my god, another story about men vs. women" but Weber doesn't shy away from the ingrained value in our culture that society must never talk of women being hurt physically, especially military women even though real life is quite the opposite. Weber reveals that in the end, women can survive,especially if it's Captain Honor Harrington!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Fiction ? Yes. Science-fiction ? Not-at-all !!
Review: At the heart of every good sci-fi book is a good - and sometimes weird - topic to be explored. My favorite topics are : what if human is not a lone species in the universe, what if a parallel word exist, what if we can traverse thru time....and so on the list continue. With a wonderful topic in hand, author can expand it to the limit. Sadly, this book IMHO does not have a good "sci-fi" topic to begin with. The author present us with a woman-emancipation cause set far in the future, but the story is shallow and boring. The mention of science & technology just happen here and there throughout the book, but doesn't convince me as a reader. Characters are black and white. It's like read novel about captain Hornblower in action deep in space. For those who love real sci-fi, please look at other else. For those who love war-action theme, you can try Tom Clancy, Larry Bond etc.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Outgunned fighting impossible odds
Review: commander who puts her command at risk to save a planet. Honor shows what a gutsy commander can do. Also shows she is human when she encounters what has happened to POW's from her Navy. It is well worth the time to get into the series. Read them in order if you can. Makes Star Trek look tame and no character development.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Excellent Space Opera and a Rousing Read
Review: David Weber has created Science fiction's equivalent of C.S. Forrestor's Horatio Hornblower saga with his ongoing saga of his heroine, Honor Harrington. With her faithful, and empathic, treecat Nimitz, this series is a true delight. This is swashbuckling, space opera sci-fi at its best, with excellent characters, a vibrant universe, complete with an intriguing socio-political plot which drives the overall plot of the background of this fascinating universe.

"The Honor of the Queen," the 2nd novel in the Honor Harrington weries, takes place a couple of years after the events of "On Basilik Station." Honor has command of the cruiser Fearless, an up-to-date modern heavy cruiser, and is given command of a small squadron of ships to take on a dilpomatic mission to the planet Grayson in the Yeltsin system. Honor's Star Kingdom of Manticore is seeking allies against the People's Republic of Haven (Peeps) which has been funding its welfare-state economy by conquering and looting worlds.

The good news for Honor is that the diplomatic mission is commanded by her mentor, Admiral Raoul Courvosier, detached from the Navy to the Foreign Office for this mission. The bad news: Grayson is a feudal planet, a planet founded by religious zealots, a planet where women don't even have the right to vote, and equality of the sexes is unheard of. to say nothing of the idea of women serving in the military. And no one's told the Graysons that the Manticoran commanding officer is a woman.

It's bad enough that Honor has to deal with sexism form the Graysons, but even worse, Grayson's long standing war with the far more extreme and repressive zealots who live on the planet Massada is heating up, dramatically. Even worse, the Peeps are attempting to take advantage of the situation.

This is a truly enjoyable novel, with a high fun factor. Mr. Weber does a nice job of portraying the conflicted nature of much of the Grayson high command, and he takes the relationship between Honor and Nimitz even further than before. Mr. Weber's chaacters are fascinating, and a number of characters introduced in this novel will be recurring characters throughout this series.


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