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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Product ReviewEntertaining, enjoyable, but only half a book. And aren't the "goodies" clever, honourable and brave while the "baddies" are stupid, venal or powerless. I've waited a while for a proper HH book with a beginning, middle and end. This wasn't it.
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Product ReviewMore a "novela" than a true novel. Filler material, background political activity, and little else. Either a larger manuscript was cut into two books, or the manuscript published was rushed and unfinished. Readable, but not up to Mr. Weber's previous body of work.
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Product ReviewTo paraphrase another David Weber character, Howard Anderson (Stars at War series):
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Product ReviewThis is a fairly satisfactory Honoverse book. I did not give it a 5-star rate mainly because the story is obviously cut in the middle and therefore the book is "short" for my taste. Otherwise a well-written plot which is told coherently and convincingly. I wasn't particularly put off by the longish "look I know you want the battle but you gotta read this stuff first" parts that set the scene for the main event in the book. The fates of the Solarian characters were a bit too obvious for the readers of the whole series now, but I still like the new characters and the emerging political actors. The book's plot holds together nicely with the overall Honor Harrington Series and its general direction. The really good news is that the writer has scored well in terms of a successful bridging of the Havenite conflict and the Solarian one, which means there's a lot of room to keep writing in that direction. All in all I thought it was a good book. You can't be a Honoverse reader and skip this one.
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Product ReviewI bought the e-book rather than the hardcover after reading the reviews here. I actually enjoyed the political bent of this book, although I wouldn't have paid the hardcover price for it. I think seeing the political aspect of the situation as it is unfolding will be useful in the second part of this book. One thing I am wondering: is the royal wedding a harbinger of disaster for the Royal Manticoran family??? Will something happen to Elizabeth in the next book, and Roger succeed to the throne?
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Product ReviewI realize that there was a bit more political back story than many folks would prefer, but in this case it was well done. In many of the books in this series my eyes glaze over and I jump over the political hooey but in this book I felt it was both interesting and necessary.
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Product ReviewI've been a huge fan since I first discovered this series. That being said, I found this book disappointing. It feels like half a book. Weber builds up the plot with even more detail than ever before. The storyline is much more complicated, granted. But after all this detail is presented the book abruptly stops. One reviewer compared it to a publisher deciding to tear it in half and release it in 2+ editions. I still enjoyed reading it, but it was not Weber's best effort.
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