New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and international best-selling phenomenon David Weber delivers book #18 in the multiple New York Times best-selling Honor Harrington series.
Wrong number? There are two sides to any quarrel . . . unless there are more.
Queen Elizabeth of Manticore's first cousin and Honor Harrington's best friend, Michelle Henke, has just handed the "invincible" Solarian League Navy the most humiliating, one sided defeat in its entire almost thousand year history in defense of the people of the Star Empire's Talbott Quadrant. But the League is the most powerful star nation in the history of humanity. Its navy is going to be back—and this time with thousands of superdreadnoughts.
Yet she also knows scores of other star systems—some independent, some controlled by puppet regimes, and some simply conquered outright by the Solarian Office of Frontier Security—lie in the League's grip along its frontier with the Talbott Quadrant. As combat spreads from the initial confrontation,the entire frontier has begun to seethe with unrest, and Michelle sympathizes with the oppressed populations wanting only to be free of their hated masters.
And that puts her in something of a quandary when a messenger from Mobius arrives, because someone's obviously gotten a wrong number. According to him, the Mobians' uprising has been carefully planned to coordinate with a powerful outside ally: the Star Empire of Manticore. Only Manticore—and Mike Henke—have never even heard of the Mobius Liberation Front.
It's a set up . . . and Michelle knows who's behind it. The shadowy Mesan Alignment has launched a bold move to destroy Manticore's reputation as the champion of freedom. And when the RMN doesn't arrive, when the MLF is brutally and bloodily crushed, no independent star system will ever trust Manticore again.
Mike Henke knows she has no orders from her government to assist any rebellions or liberation movements, that she has only so many ships, which can be in only so many places at a time . . . and that she can't possibly justify diverting any of her limited, outnumbered strength to missions of liberation the Star Empire never signed on for. She knows that . . . and she doesn't care.
No one is going to send thousands of patriots to their deaths, trusting in Manticoran help that will never come.
Not on Mike Henke's watch.
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Product ReviewI thought the book did its job, basically explaining what was going on in the Talbott Quadrant during the events of the last few "Main Stream" novels. I would prefer that we replace "A Honor Harrington Novel" with "A Honor Harrington universe Novel" to clear up some confusion though. As to the points of Ensign Zilwicki, do recall the Flag officers were trying to get more information into her FATHER, as as a Flag Lt. she would have at access to anything her Commodore does. I hope, since this is an ARC, that more is added about the planets that only get one chapter then never seen again as we get closer to actual release. My only real issue, and its understandably, is we see less and less action via ship combat and more and more higher political decisions. I am hopeful we start following Terkov more and hopefully he provides that.
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Product ReviewFirst of all, this is not an Honor Harrington novel but a Michelle Henke/Talbott Quadrant story. Harrington makes no appearance anywhere in the book so why does her name appears on the cover at all? Also, the first two chapters are a literary dead end: after introducing us to new planets and characters, Shadow Of Freedom takes us away to more familiar surroundings and the storyline never comes back to where it began. And despite having his cover thoroughly blown in The Shadow Of Saganami, Damien Harahap is back, using the same codename, unimaginatively enough, as when he was causing trouble in the Talbott Cluster. How he has time to flit from planet to planet and infiltrate the highest levels of numerous resistance movements (movements that local authorities can
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Product ReviewI was surprised and disappointed by just how dull this book wound up being. I don't mind the fact the book is supposed to center around a character other than Honor. What bothers me is how so much of the book is spent on the activities of brand new characters who aren't all that important to the overall story line of the Honorverse. I was annoyed that many of the chapters felt like I was rereading previous chapters, and finding repeated content from previous books was upsetting as well.
Overall, it just didn't feel like Weber spent as much time or energy on this book as he has on previous ones. Very disappointing.Posted on
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Product ReviewOnce more I am pretty disappointed in a Weber story. This was supposed to be the next installment of the Honor Harrington series, not another Honorverse novel. But Honor doesnt even make a guest appearance here.
Instead this story evolves around literally scores of new, totally unimportant characters, a couple of which even bite the dust while the story goes on. And its all about some backwater planets, which are just one of many setting stones in the war of RMN against the Sollies.
This could have been shortened to a third of the book, making space for some real story development of the greater storyline.
This will also be the last eARC I buy from Weber since I strongly feel I got ripped off on the last three, expecting full Honor novels and getting sideplots instead. Some important ones, granted, but not justifying the early grab for advanced reading.
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Product ReviewI bought this eARC in theEPUB/
Nook/Stanza format and downloaded it to my Nook. THe format is not exactly correct, so there was some drama with handling the file on my Nook Color. Also there is a disclaimer on the cover page that this is not a proofed version, and I saw the evidence of that as I read through it. I thought the text could have used an editor because there are disconnects and un-connected references. I was charged the $15 full price for the book although I had a discount coupon which reduced the bite some.Posted on
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Product ReviewOK...I'm going to be a bit picky. When I see a "NEW HONOR HARRINGTON NOVEL" in the title I expect to read about Honor doing amazing things. In someways I feel cheated, because I really want to know who Nimitz is stalking now. Otherwise, what you expect from David Weber.
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Product ReviewEven less action than the previous novel, and doesn't even include any of the interesting characters on Old Terra. In another series, this would have been broken into a collection of short stories, kind of like the Grantville Gazette.
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Product ReviewI really like how weber did this book, it really filled in what was happening out in the rest of the galaxy during the last two books, but I really, really miss Honor harrington. I thought it was an excellent book. It gave action to the other commanders and admirals of the RMS. It aso showed how greedy the Solarian's are. I hope they show how Beowolf is doing soon!!! I want to know what happened after they seperated from the League.
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Product ReviewNot enough book to be worth six dollars, let alone fifteen. This feels like barely half a story and has no climax at all.
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