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Summary: In Enemy Hands
Review: I loved it. I am an avid reader and I love reading any books written by David Weber. The character are almost alive in the books. It was fun reading this book. I could not put it down.
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Summary: In Enemy Hands - A Great Book
Review: I think this is one of the Best of the series so far. Even though I don't want to wait (I want it NOW!) for the next book - I like the fact that Mr. Weber didn't rush his story at the end to get it all in. Obviously there's a lot more to the rest of this story.As you can tell from the title, Honor's in trouble, but the enemy beware when you have friends like HERS!
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Summary: Honor "Super Woman" Harrington does it again.
Review: If you have read the previous novels, then you get the score. Honor Harrington is back in action leading a multi-national force, as the war with the Peoples Republic of Haven heats up. Honor is joined by some of her old friends from previous novels, namely Scotty Tremaine, Alistair Mckenon, and good ole' Harkness. Reading about these wonderful characters again is a real treat. Reading about Honor Harrington Super Woman, is getting to be a real pain. In the beginning of this book, we see the Royal Manticoran Navy gearing up for a major offensive against the PRH. We get an inside look into further "Peep" politics, and future RMN weapons. We also get a page after page of dialogue and character insights about Honor Harrington. From these insights we learn this about Honor Harrington. Since Basilisk Station Honor is the second highest ranking officer in the Grayson Navy (second most powerful fleet in the Manticoran Alliance). She is the most important political figure on Grayson. She is also a brilliant tactical officer (then again we already knew that), and something of a genius with strategic warfare since in Flag in Exile, after surviving a pinance crash and people trying to kill her she then has a sword fight with a master of the blade (and wins of course). After all that she then commands a small yet powerful fleet of Grayson ships to defeat a PRH fleet almost three times it's size. She does this with 1 hour of sleep mind you. Honor is the greatest martial artist in the RMN, and possibly the strongest and tallest human to ever exit. Then there is here knowledge about treecats, she apparently knows more about these creatures than any other person in the galaxy. And to top it all off she is quite beautiful (though she thinks she is ugly). That in a nutshell is Honor Harrington. She is hot, she is tough, she can do everything anyone else can, only 4 times better. And everyone loves her for it because she is "modest". Webster continues to write with that style for adventure, and while I rather liked Harrington in the outset, she is becomming a real trial to read. The woman can basically do anything to perfection and it's getting pretty darn annoying. Anytime someone mentions Harrington in the book, they go into almost a paragraph about how awesome she is. I have no real problem with that, but tone it down. I don't need to have every character in the universe go on and on about how great she is. What is probably worst, is that she will often talk about how great she is. But will do so in a modest way and never out loud. It's tiresome. I would love for nothing else than for another RMN female captain come up and kick the ...out of her then toss that damn 'cat Nimitz out of an airlock. I don't mind her being good at being a captain, or being able to fight. But when she is beating the ... out of Marines, out thinking admirals, enough is enough. This book is more of the same, with the exception of the cliffhanger ending. Aside from Honor, the book is great. Good plot, and great action. And if you love Chief Harkness, you will love this book.
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Summary: Honor "Super Woman" Harrington does it again.
Review: If you have read the previous novels, then you get the score. Honor Harrington is back in action leading a multi-national force, as the war with the Peoples Republic of Haven heats up. Honor is joined by some of her old friends from previous novels, namely Scotty Tremaine, Alistair Mckenon, and good ole' Harkness. Reading about these wonderful characters again is a real treat. Reading about Honor Harrington Super Woman, is getting to be a real pain. In the beginning of this book, we see the Royal Manticoran Navy gearing up for a major offensive against the PRH. We get an inside look into further "Peep" politics, and future RMN weapons. We also get a page after page of dialogue and character insights about Honor Harrington. From these insights we learn this about Honor Harrington. Since Basilisk Station Honor is the second highest ranking officer in the Grayson Navy (second most powerful fleet in the Manticoran Alliance). She is the most important political figure on Grayson. She is also a brilliant tactical officer (then again we already knew that), and something of a genius with strategic warfare since in Flag in Exile, after surviving a pinance crash and people trying to kill her she then has a sword fight with a master of the blade (and wins of course). After all that she then commands a small yet powerful fleet of Grayson ships to defeat a PRH fleet almost three times it's size. She does this with 1 hour of sleep mind you. Honor is the greatest martial artist in the RMN, and possibly the strongest and tallest human to ever exit. Then there is here knowledge about treecats, she apparently knows more about these creatures than any other person in the galaxy. And to top it all off she is quite beautiful (though she thinks she is ugly). That in a nutshell is Honor Harrington. She is hot, she is tough, she can do everything anyone else can, only 4 times better. And everyone loves her for it because she is "modest". Webster continues to write with that style for adventure, and while I rather liked Harrington in the outset, she is becomming a real trial to read. The woman can basically do anything to perfection and it's getting pretty darn annoying. Anytime someone mentions Harrington in the book, they go into almost a paragraph about how awesome she is. I have no real problem with that, but tone it down. I don't need to have every character in the universe go on and on about how great she is. What is probably worst, is that she will often talk about how great she is. But will do so in a modest way and never out loud. It's tiresome. I would love for nothing else than for another RMN female captain come up and kick the ...out of her then toss that damn 'cat Nimitz out of an airlock. I don't mind her being good at being a captain, or being able to fight. But when she is beating the ... out of Marines, out thinking admirals, enough is enough. This book is more of the same, with the exception of the cliffhanger ending. Aside from Honor, the book is great. Good plot, and great action. And if you love Chief Harkness, you will love this book.
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Summary: Continues the tradition of Honor Harrington
Review: In Enemy Hands picks up pretty much where Among Enemies left off. Weber takes a few chapters to fill in the details. His writing is smoothe enough that new readers will jump right in and readers of the series will certainly enjoy the insightes into the characters, the Peeps and Treecats especially
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Summary: A solid exploration of characters as well as action
Review: In Enemy Hands violates one of the key rules of series fiction--this episode doesn't end at the book's end--but overall the book significantly advances the series, allowing Weber to develop his characterizations within a solid action plot. We discover reasons to like some members of the People's Republic; we learn more about the psychology of treecats; and Weber gets closer to the female psyche in its many forms. If only his grammar were better! But the book is definitely worth adding to any space opera collection
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Summary: Another great Honor Harrington story!
Review: In this, the sixth Honor Harrington book, David Weber takes you on a great , sometimes gutwrenching adventure. Honor, now a Commodore in the MSN, is captured and sentenced to death... Honor fans have gotta read this one!! I can't wait to find out what happens next....come on David, write faster!!
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Summary: Answer to the people getting annoyed with HH at this point
Review: Many people have complained that Weber is becoming increasingly annoying in the way he describes HH. Yes she seems to be Superwoman but she has quite a few flaws - the biggest of which is the moving element of this book's plot. She can't put herself first and that is why she runs away from Hamish and straight into the Peep's hands. We've always known about her temper is a source of weakness (as well as strength). She can't sing to save her life, she grew up thinking she was ugly (something that's very hard to get over even in adulthood) and she suck's at math. She might have lesser flaws than someone else but she has the advantages to go with them. Charisma, discipline, single minded determination, love for her work and a great deal of intelligence. People worship movie stars these days for far, far less - Can you blame a planet like Grayson for worshipping her.
This book was good, particularly because it shows that Honor is human. She's imprisoned and humiliated by SS troops that everybody says are to stupid to live. But remember what their job is - They're not supposed to fight the enemy outside, they're supposed to prevent the navy from launching "another" coup. Remember also that Weber has forever told us that the Peep education system sucks, so if you're going to recruit from the Dolist ranks watch dogs for the navy this is the best you can do.
My favorite part of this book is the point where Honor is removed from the action which allows her people to take the center stage for a change (like Harkness and Alastair). It also provides us with a better look into the enemy and it's officers. We learn things about the relationship between The Navy and the SS. We finally get to meet Cordelia Ransom and we revel at her untimely demise. And finally it sets the stage for future stories. This is a good book.
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Summary: Carry on, Mr Weber.
Review: My second Honour Harrington novel, which now has me firmly resolved to go back to the beginning and start from the first to catch up. There is a sense of dramatic irony which Weber takes full advantage of. We know from the back-cover description that Honour gets captured; it is what the novel is about after all. So as certain decisions take her closer to that end, it makes you scream "look out behind you" with a sense of exciting anticipation: "how is Honour going to get out of this one?" Action, character and plot are all handled excellently: background and motivation dealt with in an intelligent manner rather than two-dimensionally. Generally the novel goes off in new directions, away from pure space-battles of the last few novels. I can see further diversions ahead as the novels continue (as they must, please as this novel ended on a great 'to be continued...'). Recommended SF action. One note on quality: my edition fell apart during reading. Perhaps this is a one-off, but I'm going to read the next book very carefully.
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Summary: Fairly decent novel, worth the money
Review: Nice led in for the next few novels. Honor and crew are behind emeny lines and against all reasonable odds they prevail. Fairly solid read. This novel is a good stand alone read.
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