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 love the Honorverse and within it these are some of my favourite characters. I rated this so low because essentially it contains only events. There is no character development and precious little plot development.
The Mesans are mildly creepy and deeply evil. The members of the Grand Alliance are uniformly awesome.
If I never read another identical description of a Solarian character impersonating the Black Knight being dismembered by the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannnog, it will be far too soon. Ditto any interior dialogue by a Solarian character where the word 'neobarb' appears.
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Product ReviewToo much rehash. Hardly any storyline.
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Product ReviewNot sure what the people who say "it was copy paste" are reading. Yes some of the story is told from a different point of view yes some is re-hash but it was still a good book and worth the $15 to read it early.
OHHH and the person who said skip to chapter 22 in my opinion never read the book because a lot of stuff happens in those first chapters that I have seen no where else.Posted on
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Product ReviewI am a hardcore Harrington fan, and even I must confess myself disappointed. Entire chapters of copy-paste and recap, I can live with. Surprisingly short book, fine. The plot doesn't move forward a lot, but even that I don't mind, because there are several interesting scenes worth reading. However, what I cannot forgive, is that this book does not deliver on it's basic promise. It introduces us to two different resistance movements who are relying on Manticore, with some pretty likeable characters. And at the end of the book - manticore has gone to help one movement, but the situation is far from fully resolved. And as for the other, it has not even gotten to the "resistance" part of the resistance movement, leave alone Manticore appearing on the scene. When I finished this, all I could ask is - WHERE'S THE OTHER HALF OF THE BOOK I PAID FOR??
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Product ReviewI'm giving it two stars because it is marginally better than its predecessor which I gave one star to.
I have actually recently reread all the series - and I cannot help the impression that Weber is bored with these books and just "dialling it in" with an enthusiastic taste for cut and paste and a major effort to try to leave something at the end of each book to get readers to buy the next.
It really is not good enough to take readers for granted. This book is disjointed, confused, hard to follow and generally a bit of a mess. Weber has let himself down twice now in two successive books.
I think he ought to ask himself - if this was not a sequel book in a series, would Baen have published it? ... the quality is that low.Posted on
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Product ReviewOkay I love David Weber's works only reason this gets two stars ...1. Because it well written. 2. Because it advance the storyline a small bit..... the reason I gave it such a poor rating is 40% is a rehash of what's already happened 30% new stuff nobodies gonna care about 30% advancement of the storyline......... if your a honor fan ur still gonna buy it but save urself some frustration and begin at chapter 22, I'm serious u wont have lost a thing since I'm going tell u in a couple sentence what that first half was about, oh and if u do skipper ahead its still got a chapter or two of rehash after chapter 22
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First, a bunch of resistances going around telling there story being helped by firebrand who's saying hes a manty
Second, Capt zavala and Abigale go to a system and liberate 2 merchies impounded in process killing couple battlecruisers and gandermen sollies...... that's it.
To be honest wish someone had rated this when I bought it so I would have waited for it to come out in paperback since I'm an honor fan(own al the series In One format or nother) wish thered been a review when i bought it, was it worth $15? not even close but w/e maybe the next one will be goodPosted on
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Product ReviewRead it on a friend's ipad when travelling. Definitely not worth even $5 let alone a Arc bill of $15.
The usual interminable and turgid weber prose with his standard cardboard characters.
The only reason to read this book, like all his last 4 honorverse books is that his space battles are still top notch.
His slightly better safehold series suffers from this same problem.
For gods sake Baen, get him a better editor and make him read some Brandon Sanderson and Joe Abercrombie!
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Filled with cut and paste from previous books. This is getting old. For God's sake Webber, Either start writing again, Quit or turn the series over to other authors as in the Ring of Fire series.
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Product ReviewShort form; write more, repeat less. ...Honestly, at this point in the series you have no business reading a new book without having read the rest. The -told-from-another-view- sections weren't enough to help someone new to the honorverse understand what was going on. It was just slightly annoying filler in an already too short book. I would rather that they had been cut out and the story progressed further. THE GOOD: any advancement of the plot is welcome. The Talbot Quadrant Crew are some of my favorite characters, particularly the Hexapuma bridge crew in their new roles. LOVED the parts with Abigail Hearns.
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