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I've very much enjoyed the previous Honor Harrington novels. I couldn't finish this one. It's a terrible read. It's chapter after chapter of nothing happening. Just two people talking as an excuse for exposition. One writer's credo is "show, don't tell". Well, Weber is all "tell" and no "show" here. So disappointing considering how much I enjoyed previous books in this series. I don't know that I'll return to this book or the series again.
It got a four only because of the quote on the back of the book, which is:"Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated."If that isn't cheesy space opera, I don't know what is.
Honor Harrington is back from Hell - the Havenite prison planet - along with a few hundred thousand prisoners she rescued along the way. The folks back in the Manticore system thought she was dead, and they're really, really glad to see her. They spend the first 150 pages of this book showering her with honors while she blushes and protests feebly. It's almost unbearably corny and saccharine. But eventually Weber gets on with the story, and I enjoyed the rest of the book. His last 100 pages were...
The Honor Harrington series has been pretty smooth sailing since some annoying lapses of realism in the earliest books. Now they're back with a vengance.Generally the book is a bit slower paced than predecessors, but has many of their qualities (4 stars). What struck me as extremely annoying is (view spoiler)[the way Weber forces a conspiracy of stupidity on his otherwise competent characters, in order to prolong the war indefinitely. Granted, if The Republic of Haven had just been crushed, the
Another book of the adventures of Honor Harrington Stead holder and Space Navy ranking officer of two separate Naves. Good SF reading with plenty of things happening in this fat paperback
The padding begins. Interesting stuff happens. But there’s no reason this book need be thicker than a steak.
Wow. This book is over 600 pages long, and my experience of the first half and the second half was completely different. In fact I would have given the first half 2 stars and the second half 4 stars so I've compromised on 3. I started reading this book not having been overly-thrilled with the previous one. And once again there were loooong conversations that started with one person turning to the person next to them and saying "As you already know, EXPOSITION!!". In fact, my friend and I managed...
This is the last one I´ll ever read. Weber is totally off track, too much annoying stuff going on.
I dropped the rating on this one because some of the expository sections put me to sleep. Mostly about politics or finance.
I had a higher degree of unsettlement with Ashes of Victory than any of the previous eight novels in this series. It felt like more of a holding action despite the variety and impact of activity which occurred. Distractions kept breaking off my reading whereas my attention had been glued to the previous stories.A bit untimely on my part, but I finally remembered to mention the leader of the 'Peep' Republic, Rob S. Pierre. Who just happens to be based in Nouveau Paris. I think it's safe to assume...
2018 re-read. Things really heat up in this novel, both militarily, and politically. A very good read!
3.5 stars.So it appears that Mr Weber likes to add an extra 200 pages on each new installment. The last book had 600+ pages, this one had 800+ pages and a check of the next goes to 1000+ pages!!! He's definitely training me how to skim pages!!A pretty good story once you get rid of all the lectures - but I really wish his editor had told him to distill his information into broad strokes instead of writing dissertations! It's getting to be more and more impossible for someone who's only after a g...
If you read my review of the previous book, Echoes of Honor, I mentioned it was an awesome basic story hampered by some real annoyances. Well, the annoyances are the same, but much worse. The basic story is still great & the ending is, again, just awesome. (It doesn't star Honor, either!) Info dumps - There are too many of them & he's expanding beyond the necessary - an ugly trend that has gotten way worse - adding in details & back story that I don't much care for. I just don't see where it hel...
I truly wish I had read this series years ago, but I cannot complain too hard when I get to enjoy each action packed novel back-to-back. While another worthy addition to this series, the twist at the end was upsetting. Not because I did not agree with it, but I realized that the series was far from over. I just had politicians that are out to enrich themselves...too common by far.
Three and one-half stars. (Actually I should say 2 stars for the first half, which was a bit of a snooze fest, and 4 stars for the second half.) Ashes of Victory was a better read the second time through, but that might be because I was able to skim/speed-read through the many data dumps this time and get back to the story. (David Weber is a very good story-teller, but I do wish sometimes that he would spend more time on story editing. But then he would be less prolific, I suppose. Sigh.)In this...
April 4: A third of the way through the book and the only thing that's happened is that Honor has returned home to her family. Almost every chapter so far is two people sitting down having a conversation about either what happened while Honor was gone, what does it mean now that Honor is back, and what schemes to put into place. Since the POV for each chapter switches between the "good guys" and the "bad guys" (at least two sets of "bad guys" and multiple sets of "good guys"), this is turning ou...
Honor is great!Honor is grand!Let's sing about Honor while we stand on our hands!And that is what is wrong with this. Honestly, I debtated, am still debating whether to give one or two stars. The Honor worships was so over the top, it wasn't even funny. I can't even write this review without treecats telling me what they think of Honor.BLEEP!See?Yet the bits with the Havenites, god that was good. I wanted more of that. Take out are the pages, pages, pages, and pages (be quiet White Haven! I know...
Review: Ashes of VictoryI think I've just given up and decided to attempt and catch up with David Weber's Honor Harrington series. All the way up. That means I'm currently working on Ashes of Victory, and it's impossible not to notice the books are getting longer as the series rolls on.And in this case, it's not just longer in page-length, but in exposition, political maneuvering, and copious droning. Compared to Echoes of Honor, this is almost an unremitting snooze-fest. Echos is one of the mos...
Twice as many pages, but the same amount of story.A fun read, but these get more formulaic with each installment. The formula: first third recapitulates and explores ramifications of the previous book's climax, second third develops side threads and massive dumps of philosophy (thinly disguised as internal and external dialogue), then the final third develops the new climax and gives just enough details of the aftermath to create a hook to the next novel.Weber's a good writer and its all very fu...
2.5 stars at best. Long-winded and repetitive. Was he paid by the word when this was published?Again, 2-3 space battles, depending on how you count. Lots of noses rubbed, pinched and blown off. Lots of blushing *facepalm*Again, lots of long, in depth descriptions of new characters who are then never seen again.Some very clever moments, padded out to (it seems) 800 pages.2/3 of this book is just fluff. And the stupidity of one of the sub-plots beggars belief. Jeez. (view spoiler)[The memory cube