The Star Kingdom of Manticore and the Republic of Haven have been enemies for Honor Harrington's entire life, and she has paid a price for the victories she's achieved in that conflict. And now the unstoppable juggernaut of the mighty Solarian League is on a collision course with Manticore. The millions who have already died may have been only a foretaste of the billions of casualties just over the horizon, and Honor sees it coming.
She's prepared to do anything, risk anything, to stop it, and she has a plan that may finally bring an end to the Havenite Wars and give even the Solarian League pause. But there are things not even Honor knows about. There are forces in play, hidden enemies in motion, all converging on the Star Kingdom of Manticore to crush the very life out of it, and Honor's worst nightmares fall short of the oncoming reality.
But Manticore's enemies may not have thought of everything after all. Because if everything Honor Harrington loves is going down to destruction, it won't be going alone.
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Product ReviewAnother excellent read in the Honorverse series. Not so sure that more time should have been spent on character development and perhaps split it into two books. But, damn it was good.
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Product ReviewToo many talking heads, Action is what I like.
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Product ReviewA bit creaky--plenty of fairly obvious political maneuvering, no surprises, and not a lot of action. (A few more minor victories over idiot Solarians, and a long planned unconventional attack on Manticore infrastructure.)
PS: war between Manticore and Haven is over, in case you didn't guess two books ago.Posted on
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Product ReviewAnother excellent addition to the Honor Harrington series, I'd give it a 4.5 if that were an option due to a few failures. Biggest drawback to this story is the longstanding problem that Weber has continued throughout the series; Too much internal monologue. It's important to know what our favorite characters are thinking but he goes a little overboard, he slows down the pace of the story through the entire book with large bits of the thoughts his characters have. Other than that my only complaint about the book is the bland showing of the characters in the Talbot Cluster, they are introduced for a very significant event but somehow I was left feeling like they were only dropped in to show a few familiar faces and make a battle hit us closer to home.
The overall story was an incredible development of events that started years ago(in our world anyway) and are finally coming to a head in the Honorverse. The hinted attack by the Streak drive ships on Manticore, something of a resolution to the Haven-Manticore problem and the breadth of the Mesan Alignment's plans are all things deeply explored and expanded on.
Overall I was pretty pissed when I finished. Solely because I couldn't handle the story ending where it did. It was a huge moment and a perfect stopping point, from the perspective of the author. From my reader's point of view I finished not begging but screaming for more. I can't wait till the next book comes out.Posted on
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Product ReviewHaving purchased _ALL_ of the Honor Harrington series and related spin offs, I feel obliged to say that I have thoroughly enjoyed the series. I enjoy reading "On Basilisk Station" and "The Honor of the Queen" just as much today as I did when they were first released back in 1994 and 2000, respectively. From that I can truthfully say that I have had little reason to regret the money I have spent on David Weber's creations.
Until now.
What I am writing applies only to the eArc version of "Mission of Honor." I truly and dearly hope that this is a mere shadow of the completed novel due in July of 2010.
Everything that was good about the early Honor Harrington books is absent in this edition of "Misson of Honor." "Mission of Honor" reads like a bad copy/paste job, "50" chapters of repetitive predicate nominals that read like canned boilerplate written using MS Word macros. That it took over two years to produce this addition to the Harrington saga is simply appalling.
Additionally, the building trend towards cliffhanger endings in the Harrington series, a sad and sorry state of affairs that I first noticed with "In Enemy Hands," does NOTHING to advance the story, and is sorely tempting me to simply abandon this series entirely. Whereas the early Honor Harrington tales written by Mr. Weber were well developed and left the reader feeling complete, the newer Harrington novels, and "Mission of Honor" specifically, have left me feeling cheated.
I truly am a fan of David Weber's stories, and not just the Honer Harrington series. Mr. Weber is a talented and prolific writer, and I believe has many more great stories to tell. I just hope that "Mission of Honor" doesn't herald the beginning of a downward spiral, where commercial interests drive an author to simply produce more words to milk the stories for every last penny, but fail to realize that it doing so they are destroying the craft that attracted, and is necessary to hold, the most important part of a story -- the reader.Posted on
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Product ReviewA really, really good book - I only hope David knows, which way he will go with this series ...
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Product ReviewI have to agree with Jaimie. For the last couple books we have been sitting and waiting on the "cliffhanger" ending that has basically spanned 2 books now.
I love all your books David, some more than others, but please, please, advance the story line. We've been hovering over this same "cliff" for years... Cliffhangers only work if you release the sequel in timely fashion, if you keep everyone waiting it kills the purpose of it. Don't let Baen sit on your manuscript for a year and a half, just publish it after it is written.Posted on