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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not wat i vantedMaterial don't rate a stand-alone book. Minimal main plot advancement.
if yo are a hardcore fan ok *** every 1 else *Posted on
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I liked it; not bad.It's not an Honor Harrington novel, but it's a good novel. A lot of little questions answered (like what happened to ____). We discover actual intelligent life in the military services of the Solarian League. It won't keep you awake all night, but I finished the hard back in two days. It's nice to see certain people get their comeuppance. It's definitely more spy novel than space navy battles---plotting, scheming, fighting, and then ....
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Nothing new here.This was a rehash of events from the earlier books, mostly from the viewpoint of unknown and uninteresting people.
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eh...I agree with the various comments. I read the preview chapters and, while they would be great "filler" in various other books, they don't rate a stand-alone book. Not horrible backstory info, some good character development, but it really drags in parts and you know we'll never see most of those characters again. First of the series I won't be buying. Verbose and no plot advancement. Mr. Weber, PLEASE finish a series up, hopefully this one, before I die of old age!
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PoorI collection of everything that didn't make the cut in previous books in Honorverse all collected in one heap. Seemed to be trying to seemed in a few revisions from previous books. I love all Honerverse books except this one.
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The only reason I've stuck around is the characters. And they are getting buried under a mountain of junk
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Worst everI expected a follow up to Micheles trip to Mesa along with Sollies continued down fall. Very disappointed
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So. Many. Names.A good book, provides a lot of background to events covered in other books, but very hard to keep track of all the names of the various conspirators on different planets. I felt like I was in a sociology class.
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No plot advancementThis novel is the 4th pass through the same timeline and could probably be completely skipped without impacting one's understanding of future events should the series ever move forward.
Also, the extensive use of foreign language nouns - Czech, Polish and Gaelic - may help distinguish the various planets the POV keeps switching between, but significantly impairs readability.Posted on
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a little to much old events from earlyer books
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