David Weber continues to impress me. He has developed a whole multiverse in which his characters live, function, plot, and evolve. I can only imagine the flow charts he maintains in order to keep everything straight. He does the Harrington novels in conjunction to other books in other series. As I said, impressive.
This book is another worthy episode in his Honor Harrington/Star Empire saga. This is not (nor is it advertised as) a stand-alone volume. In order to understand it, one must read the preceding books in the series. Yes, it plods along with very little action, just as in real life. It follows the minutia of daily life which happens as we're doing other things.
Recommended.
This book is another worthy episode in his Honor Harrington/Star Empire saga. This is not (nor is it advertised as) a stand-alone volume. In order to understand it, one must read the preceding books in the series. Yes, it plods along with very little action, just as in real life. It follows the minutia of daily life which happens as we're doing other things.
Recommended.
Steven C. (SteveTheDM) -
Well.
I've really liked the Honorverse novels for quite a while now, and this one really didn't disappoint, and reaches up to the top tier of the Honorverse collection. I mean, sheesh. This was a lot of pages, and boy, I sure didn't notice them fly by. A book that can do that for me truly is top-tier.
The ending was a disappointment, however. I'm really ready to go back to "episodic" style storytelling. This "end the book without a conclusion" trend just gets on my nerves, and is really the only reason this one didn't get the full five stars. I really did like the book. I really like the evolution of the universe that transpired here. But damn it, at least give me a *slight* conclusion. All we got here was cliffhanger.
4 of 5 stars.
I've really liked the Honorverse novels for quite a while now, and this one really didn't disappoint, and reaches up to the top tier of the Honorverse collection. I mean, sheesh. This was a lot of pages, and boy, I sure didn't notice them fly by. A book that can do that for me truly is top-tier.
The ending was a disappointment, however. I'm really ready to go back to "episodic" style storytelling. This "end the book without a conclusion" trend just gets on my nerves, and is really the only reason this one didn't get the full five stars. I really did like the book. I really like the evolution of the universe that transpired here. But damn it, at least give me a *slight* conclusion. All we got here was cliffhanger.
4 of 5 stars.
