Peril and strife strike on a double front for Honor Harrington and company. After a brutal attack on the Manticoran home system, Honor Harrington has rooted out a plan designed to enslave the entire human species. Behind that plan lies the shadowy organization known as the Mesan Alignment. Task number one for Honor is to shut down and secure the wormhole network that is the source of the Star Kingdom's wealth and power—but also its greatest vulnerability. Yet this is an act that the ancient and corrupt Earth-based Solarian League inevitably takes as a declaration of war.

The thunder of battle rolls as the Solarian League directs its massive power against the Star Kingdom. And once again, Honor Harrington is thrust into a desperate battle that she must win if she is to survive to take the fight to the real enemy of galactic freedom—the insidious puppetmasters of war who lurk behind the Mesan Alignment!

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    I have only been reading the "Main" Honor Harrington books - basically binge reading them for the last couple of months. And I'd have to say that up until this last one, I'd have rated them 4-5. Sometimes I find it a bit silly to introduce a captain of a ship, give four pages of their background, their feelings and thoughts about things, trying to give them so much depth and dimension and then just kill them on page 5. And I do tend to glaze/gloss over the parts where all the math about the velocity of missiles vs ships vs turn around, etc. But all in all, it has been a very great two months.

    This last book though was not up to par. It was the first time I felt that I had missed a book in the series. But from what I can tell (have not confirmed it yet) a lot of what was discussed did not take place in the main books. There was a small issue with that in "A Mission of Honor" (the previous book) but it was a very short, singular engagement that was stated very black and white. Not so this time as multiple things were left hazy about what happened in what I can only assume took place in the spinoff books. And thanks to my binge reading, there was one full chapter that was literally a copy of a chapter from the previous book - especially since this book decided to dip back in time for a bit then come back forward, rehashing stuff already said with chapters that I felt weren't necessary at all. And there was very little Honor Harrington driven plot in this book.

    And once again, it is amazing to find out that an entire star nation so advanced in technology can be so completely screwed up by the apparently unsupervised actions of a singular/very small group of people.

    It took almost half of the book before getting to the conclusion I had been waiting for from the last book and that was only mildly interesting. And the ending. Like others here, I had to redownload the book in a couple different formats to make sure that that was indeed the end and not a technical glitch. It was very abrupt with very little closure.

    Now I'm hoping after I go back and buy/read the spinoffs, some of those cloudy bits of unknown information will be cleared up. But this is a bit of a letdown for me.

    In the end, I told a friend of mine that this book reminded me of works of Alexandre Dumas where he was paid by the word and made sure to pad his payment quite liberally with unnecessary verbiage.

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    [Correction to my previous review] While I share many of the frustrations of other readers of this book, ie. the repetition required to bring this book up to date with the other storylines and the abrupt ending, I feel the rumor that the book was cut in two for marketing purposes needs to be debunked. I repeated that rumor in a rant on the Weber Forums, and David Weber amazed me (and rightfully put me in my place!) with the following explanation: "Baen didn't decide to "split" the book, or where to do it; I did. And I made the decision fairly early in the process, actually. There's been a lot of misunderstanding and misinformation on this point. The first time I ever said anything about "splitting" anything was at a science fiction convention, where, in response to a question, I said I was splitting the amount of storyline I'd originally intended to put into the next book. The "book" in question, at that time, was less than 30% written, so this wasn't a case of anyone getting to the end and saying "Oops! Too big!" I'd already realized that I wasn't going to be able to get this chunk of the story told in a single set of covers, and that didn't even consider the fact that Eric Flint is doing another collaboration with me which covers some of the same time period, and that I couldn't complete the part of the story arc that he's working on until I knew how the collaboration was going to come out.

    A Rising Thunder is not a "shorted" book. It's got over 230,000 words in it, for goodness sake! If I tried to include both parts of the story arc, instead of splitting it between events around the Star Kingdom proper and those operating out of the Talbott Quadrant

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    I thoroughly enjoy the HH series. I enjoy the "mundane details" that are presented as the machinations of the great star nations come to grips with the implications of their plans. I am able to recall a lot of the details David Weber has presented in the series. Although I re-read the series before I read this book, so they were fresher in my mind. It has so many characters and facets, it can be hard to grasp. It is not like the earlier books. But has become like the Safehold series. I enjoy novels like this. I am eagerly awaiting the next book! I give it the highest marks.

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