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Summary: A masterful hard science fiction space adventure drama.
Review: A masterful story of a deep interstellar war between empires and the Naval crews engaged in the most deadly of contests. The plot centers around Captain Honor Harrington, a determined and able commander, her crew and their mission. With entertwined side plots, realistic human situations involving personal honor and duty. David Weber has joined the ranks of master novel craftsman
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Summary: The best of the Honor Harrington books, yet!
Review: All of the Honor Harrington books have been outstanding, but David Weber has once again reached into his bag of stories and
and given us the best Honor book yet. Unlike so many series
writers where the character stays the same, Honor grows and is
enriched by her experiences. Here, we see an older and wiser
Honor who has been bloodied but unbowed by the system. As she
continues to grow, David Weber leaves us saying "What a remark
able woman!"and leaving us breathless to see the next install-
ment of her legacy. Honor has great virtues, great insecuri-
ties, and an extraordinarily well developed sense of leader-
ship. She and Nimitz (her treecat) are so well developed that
they become living breathing persons in their own rights. If
only we could invite them to stop by for a drink and some story swapping. I'd even lay in a supply of fresh celery for
Nimitz.
Skye M. Barnes, Capt. USAF Ret.
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Summary: Recommended reading in spite of a few plot problems
Review: Although David Weber is not yet the caliber of CS Forester's Horatio Hornblower series, Weber creates in Honor Among Enemies a riveting story with unexpected twists and turns that lend several meanings to the book's title. This book makes good reading whether you've read any of the previous series or not, but it makes much better reading if you have at least read Honor of the Queen, which lays much of the groundwork that leads up to this story. The plot suffers from a few relatively minor problems, chiefly that much ado is made of there being 4 ships, with Honor in command of the "squadron", but the story refers solely to one (Harrington's) with only a single short chapter relating one incident with one of the other ships. I kept waiting for the other three ships to appear but they never did. One of the most interesting subplots gets resolved a little too easily I thought, and perhaps too soon -- there was a lot of paper left and I wondered what story elements remained unfinished. All in all a fun book to read, especially if you like underdogs coming out on top.
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Summary: Another winner from David Weber
Review: Another excellent book in the Honor Harrington series. Well written with good character development. The only problem is how much more can the main character do? The entire series has been great, but each new novel requires Honor to do bigger and bigger things, which is beginning to put a strain on the credibilty. Still, a good read especially to all Starfire players
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Summary: Best Book of the Best Series!
Review: David Weber's Harrington series is probably the most fun set of stories i have ever read. I have read all 9 titles (up to Ashes of Victory) and the 2 anthologies. All have provided at the very least 4 star entertainment, and usually better. But this book was above even those standards. There were many intertwined storylines, and the depth he gives the characters makes you actually care about them. Do yourself a favor and read all books in this series. And David Weber, please, PLEASE keep 'em coming.
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Summary: Best Book of the Best Series!
Review: David Weber's Harrington series is probably the most fun set of stories i have ever read. I have read all 9 titles (up to Ashes of Victory) and the 2 anthologies. All have provided at the very least 4 star entertainment, and usually better. But this book was above even those standards. There were many intertwined storylines, and the depth he gives the characters makes you actually care about them. Do yourself a favor and read all books in this series. And David Weber, please, PLEASE keep 'em coming.
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Summary: Career Navy reviews:
Review: David Weber's Honour Harrington Series ecxels at delivering one thing above all... if you're willing, you can beat the tormentor. Sacrifice, honour, duty... there is love, and there is tremendous action (will she ever RTB with a command, let alone a ship intact? = ]) But I;ve said it before and I'll say it again; She Kicks ass and takes names. As a Navy corpsman heading into my third tour, having spent the majority of my time serving with the Marines, having fought in a war hich was well executed even tho' hampered by political mishandling, it cheers me tremendously to see someone, somewhere, getting the job done, thouroughly, even tho' even in David Weber's world, no good deed goes unpunished. Read it, and wish you lived in that world, where the government works, and the subjects are on the whole worth laying your life down for.
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Summary: Honor's back on deck, and she's up against pirates!
Review: Deep space. A huge, lumbering merchant vessel is bound down to a world when it's jumped by pirates. Several megatons of freighter, carrying millions in cargo, is lost. Needless to day, the great commerical houses and trading cartels of the Star Kingdom of Manticore are not best pleased with this situation. Unfortunately, the People's Republic of Haven is pressing heavily against the Royal Manticoran Navy, and there are no more ships to spare for escort duty. So Honor Harrington is recalled to active duty, and handed a 'squadron'. Her mission: take a bite out of the pirates affecting the trade routes into the Silesian Confederacy. No problem for a seasoned combat commander, right? Wrong. Here's the problems: 1) the RMN can't spare regular warships, so it's taken some large freighters and fitted them out with weapons and military-grade sensors. Unfortunately, they don't have military spec acceleration or shielding, and won't stand up to much of a pounding. 2) Personnel shortages means Honor gets stuck with new, inexperienced personnel and the dregs of the fleet. 3) The pirates are getting organized... One of the nice things about this novel is that we get to see something of a couple of 'lower-deckers' (like me), and how they deal with the threats, both from pirates and from some of the scumbags aboard their own ship. For the record, this was the first Honor Harrington novel I'd read, and I was sufficiently impressed that I went and bought the other five (at the time) books in one fell swoop. For my money, David Weber is right up there with Heinlein, Sturgeon and Drake.
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Summary: The female Horatio Hornblower once again takes to the skies.
Review: Honor Harrington, the celestial Horatio Hornblower Captain of the Royal Manticoran Navy is finally offered the opportunity to once again don the white beret of starship command. In this sixth novel, Honor assumes the task of commanding a rag-tag fleet of Q-ships (armed merchants) to try to discourage the piracy against Manticoran merchants in the Silesian quadrant. She is hampered, as always, by enemies on both sides. Like the other books, this novel occurs mostly from Honor's viewpoint, but you can take delight as many of the secondary characters are fleshed out as well. An added treat is the appearance of a female treecat, which gives the author more opportunity to enlighten us on the background of the species and its link with mankind. This novel, like the others, leaves you hanging onto the edge of your seat and swearing that your beloved characters won't make it out alive! A must read for Honor fans
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Summary: Battling Captains
Review: Honor is brought back from her exile to lead anti piracy operatations in the Silisian Confederacy where the Royal Manticoran Navy had been forced to withdraw as the fighting against the Peeps hots up. What she did not realise was that her recall was engineered by her enemies who, having failed to destroy her politically intend for her to fail militarily. Unfortunately for them, the word failure is not in Honor's vocabulary. It's from this book that the series really transforms itself from space opera to a more character lead style of writing. Much appreciated!
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