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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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Summary: Any passage picked at random could be a contender . . .
Review: ... in the Bulwer-Lytton contest. At 150-250 pages with good editing and a little plot tweaking it would have been a far better read. In outline form the political plot is depressing, but with one glaring exception, believable. The exception is in a scandal that surfaces and is developed for several hundred pages. The proper response to that scandal would instantly come to the mind of anyone who has paid attention to US politics during the last ten years - yet we wait, wait, and wait some more for the obvious to happen.
Due to the incredible bulk of excess verbage this book compares poorly against his earlier works. It reminded me of the monstrosities Heinlein wrote late in life as his brain cancer progressed.
I hope Mr. Weber is well, or at worst suffering from the gout of commercial success. It is also to be hoped the nature of any illness is neither contractual nor legal. In any case, I would advise both Mr. Weber and Baen that the long term value of this franchise will not be enhanced by neglecting quality control. Check it out from the library if, like me, you must follow the saga through interstellar upheaval, political scandal, and incredibly bloated writing. There are other books more worthy of your money and shelf space.
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