The Mesan Alignment is revealed, and, for Honor Harrington and the Manticoran Star Kingdom, this means war!
Unintended Consequences
Sometimes things don’t work out exactly as planned.
The Mesan Alignment has a plan—one it’s been working on for centuries. A plan to remake the galaxy and genetically improve the human race—its way.
Until recently, things have gone pretty much as scheduled, but then the Alignment hit a minor bump in the road called the Star Empire of Manticore. So the Alignment engineered a war between the Solarian League, the biggest and most formidable interstellar power in human history. To help push things along, the Alignment launched a devastating sneak attack which destroyed the Royal Manticoran Navy’s industrial infrastructure.
And in order to undercut Manticore’s galaxy‑wide reputation as a star nation of its word, it launched Operation Janus—a false‑flag covert operation to encourage rebellions it knows will fail by promising Manticoran support. The twin purposes are to harden Solarian determination to destroy the Star Empire once and for all, and to devastate the Star Empire’s reputation with the rest of the galaxy.
But even the best laid plans can have unintended consequences, and one of those consequences in this case may just be a new dawn of freedom for oppressed star nations everywhere.
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Yawn...This is a sad addition to the Harrington universe. Concerning the plot I can only say one thing: Who cares?
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no new storystory leaves off at same place as last 3 or 4 books. Please advance the story!!!!
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This well is dryWeber seems to be stuck in a rut with this last book. As most every other review says, this book doesn't advance the major story arc, or even add anything particularly interesting in the way of subplots.
It was just a tedious grind, with a lot of Polish that was hard to track, an enormous number of minor characters I didn't care about and found it hard to keep track of, and a lot of dialogue where the characters who meet each other catch up on everything that is going on.
I had the feeling that this book exists solely to spin the series out a little longer and keep the gravy train running.Posted on
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Draft 2It's like the second draft of the last one. No furthering of the main story in fact it ends at exactly the same place.
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DisappointingFar too much recap of what has already appeared on other books. Not to mention having the same scene repeated several times WITHIN this book. Just changing the names to something unreadable doesn't make it new.
And the most disappointing thing? Apart from from some minor character development, there's NOTHING new. 800 pages and we don't know anything that we didn't already.
There are also far too many errors and typos that should have been picked up by competent proofreaders in a professional publishing house. I can live with such errors in free books from self-publishers. I expect better in books that I pay for.
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just badI wish I had read the reviews before I spent my money on this book. Found the book to be very confusing and jumbled. Too many subplots in the whole book with a "cliff-ending" that wasn't very cliff-ending, just a bad ending in my opinion. Honor graced us with her appearance for one paragraph about 65% in the book and then no more. I wish Mr. Weber would get back to speed and write a book like he used to.
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Complaints removed for bad bookThis book shows us when a series is out of control. Give Dave a vacation and tI me off. The Honorverse has prolong. It's time to jump a few decades Dave. Let's see new stories with honors kids? Let's get out of this section of groundhog day....trying to run 3 series of books around the same timeline with the concept that your fans didn't read those other series..we did, we don't need to know what happened we read it the first time and the second time and now the forth time! Your stuck we get it. You Don't want people doing things in your universe no fan fiction, But don't kill your series like this. Stop. Step Away from the desk and focus on something else for a while. We want great stories and great adventures with the characters that many have grown up with. With Your invention of prolong you can wait and get the break you want to find the stories you want when your ready to do them. I can't honestly purchase another book written this way, some may put up with it I'm not, I expected a lot more from this story and from you David. I've been a devoted fan from the beginning. Best of luck to you I hope you find your way back to your storytelling talent and style
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Reams of boring material with a few highl spots here and there that involve UNTERESTING charactersI've had this novel for a week and haven't managed to get further than chapter 25 yet. Some of the problem stems from the over abundance of uninteresting subplots, but mostly it's annoyance. I don't object to the occasional foreign language term to add a little color to a story, but honestly, I didn't pick up this book to reconnect with my Polish roots! And the use of non-English alphabets in the text is simply painful. After the third time I had to stop and translate the same set of words I started simply skipping whole paragraphs.
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No plot developmentThis book brings all the various strands of the Honorverse back together. But nothing particularly new happens. The whole thing could have been summarized in about 2 paragraphs. Or, given Weber level verboseness, maybe a chapter.
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RehashThere was what looked like some "cut and paste" from earlier novels included in this one. The details in the change in the point of view was excessive. Although most of this novel was hinted at in previous novels, it wouldn't have hurt to skip this one.
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