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Summary: More, please!
Review: I am addressing this review to David Weber personally. Please, please, write a sequel! I love - adore - your Honor Harrington books, but Alicia has the potential to be an even greater heroine. I'd love to read more of her adventures with Tisiphone and Megarea. And to all readers of this review, if you already like the Honor series, you'll love the Furies. And if you've never read any of David Weber's books before, why, then this is a wonderful place to start!
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Summary: Better than Honor!
Review: I enjoy the Honor Harrington series, but in this book David Weber goes to a whole new level. The story is enthralling and gathers momentum like a runaway train. The characters -- human, machine, alien, and computer -- are vivid and three-dimensional. You can see infinite possibilities for character development and stories to come, and I hope we'll see them soon.
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Summary: Wow!
Review: I had read the Honor Harrington series, and loved it, but I still had some misgivings about this book. From the reviews I had seen, I was afraid the story would be too unbelievable (well, aside the very existance of a Fury :), and, perhaps even more problematic, that it would have pages and pages of schizophrenic dialogs.Boy, was I wrong... the story has none of the sort. The main (human) character is a commando. A *very* elite commando, with the best cybernetic implants money can buy and research can produce. The Fury is a megalomaniac divine being with a very ironic sense of humor, and proud of it. The AI is... is like a treecat, in some ways. All three share some basic personality traits, which sometimes place them at odd with each other (or more often, two against one). Unlike the impression I got from other reviews, these entities are clearly distinct, and the main character is quite rational. The story is very fast paced, the action scenes are great and the fine humor kept me grinning (when I wasn't chuckling or outright laughing) throughout most of the book. I can't say you will like this book if you like Honor Harrington books because, unlike in HH series, there is no detail or depth in the combat scenes. But it is a very fine book.
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Summary: Nothing is Better!
Review: I have read this book 14 or 15 times, and each time, I find a new and deeper thought wound into this thrilling story. This book is not for the weak-of-stomache, for it deals intracitely with the deeper emotions, including hate, fear, anger, and love. it does not do this passively. If you read it, you will find yourself being drawn to it time and again. I love my copy to bits, and I find all of David Weber's books to have a singular power, found in no other novel.
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Summary: Be prepared to lose sleep and read til done
Review: I just re-read 2nd time, David Weber does a great job in multiple sub-plots in a major theme, well defined and interesting characters, graphic a belieable technologies, military personal mainstay provides epic level story line, futuristic sciences that are in line with hopeful future developments and weaves a story that is riviting to the point of late night reading til you finish. I wish David woould have a follow up book on this "Path of the Fury"; WELL DONE DAVE!
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Summary: Very nearly as good as it gets
Review: I LIKE David Weber's writing. After I found my first Honor Harrington, I couldn't rest till I had the whole series. And I've read 3 or 4 of his other books. But this book is really special. Weber brings three distinctive personalities: Alicia, a very special warrior; Tisiphane, one of the three furies; and a very advanced AI. All three inhabit the same body although the AI also inhabits their star ship. There is breathtaking suspense as our protaginist(s) track down some particularly evil pirates, solving the mystery of who they are, where they come from and what their ultimate purpose is. Aided and impeded by her own military, she uses the arcane talents of all her selves to accomplish her goals. But more important than the space opera aspects (and Weber sets up some of the best tactics and strategy in space warfare you'll find), the development of the conjoined leading character is fascinating. For both adventure and character development,this is a don't miss book.
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Summary: This is Space Opera!
Review: I love this book, and if it comes out in hardback, I'll buy it. I desperately want another book after this, one with Megarea and her 'sisters' in it, not the prequel that is rumored. I have read two paperback copies into the ground, helped by some of my friends who have been nearly forced to read it, too. Two out of three are now also addicted to Weber. The other one is hopeless, but he can't say I didn't try.
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Summary: This is a grand-wonderful tale
Review: I loved this story, I haven't read the Honor series, nor Insurection and Crusade, but I have read and loved the McIntrye family series. This book takes a totally different approach. The mix of ancient greek mythology and future tech is a riviting blend of past and future. A Grand tale told in the skillfulest of ways by a master of the art.
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Summary: Awesome
Review: I read this book a long time ago and loved it. It will make you cry and it will make you laugh. The charechtirisations are powerfull and real.
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Summary: Good entertainment
Review: I read this in my holidays in one day lying on the beach. It was perfect for that. Fast-paced, packed with action and just enough intelligence not to insult the average reader. If you buy this book, you can't go wrong.
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