I'm being generous with two stars, but I did actually finish reading it.I've read at least a couple other books in the Honor Harrington series, and really enjoyed them (On Basilisk Station and The Shadow of Saganami). Unfortunately this book just didn't appeal to me. It was overloaded with so man...
Book #5 of the continuing Safehold series contains more of the things everyone has come to expect, and love and hate about Weber's books. He does have great story telling ability, but sometimes the story gets bogged down in massive amounts of politics description and info dumps. The sheer number ...
The first 200 pages of 600 total were dreadful; literally 200 pages of pure info-dumping via conversations across desks and dinner tables. I very nearly threw the book away. The latter two thirds were much better and in line with Weber's usual quality. However that first third was inexcusable in ...
I love the Honorverse, really and I've learned to really enjoy the way David Weber writes (backstory maniac/cast of millions/wordy mcwordysmither), but this one was at times a chore to read. Especially then the first 300 pages is just going through things we know have happened already and it wasn...
Bookworm Speaks!A Beautiful Friendship by David Weber****David Weber…one of the High Lords of Sci-fi and a King of Space Opera. The Story: The main character is ancestor of the famed Honor Harrington, Stephanie Harrington who is a first generation colonist to the planet Sphinx of the Star Kingdom...
This is the first book of a spin-off series to the author's Honor Harrington books. Set several hundred years before the Honor books, this series features on of Honor's ancestors and the first meetings between humans and treecats. A large portion of this book was originally published in one of ...
Ok this at least feels less like you are reading the same book as the other two set in this time frame. Being in another sector gives a good separation so that the other book events are at weeks remove for the characters and they have their own story. An entertaining read but ultimately the e...
Even though it was a cool concept, bringing the history of the Reformation to a civilization which is in part arguably highly advanced and, in others not, technologically, I still felt like so much was predictable. And I found the Welshish/Old English spelling of names with ys to be annoying. It ...
This is the worst Honor Harrington novel I have read.It reminds me of many American TV series that start out great, then the writers run out of ideas so they introduce the most bizarre and stupid characters and plotlines in an effort to cover up they have no idea what they are doing. If this fai...
"Like a Mighty Army" is book 7 of the Safehold series by David Weber. It's good. It's not great. If you've followed the series to this point it's worth reading. It can stand on its own but if you haven't read the whole series, it won't have the same impact. You'll have the feeling that you are mi...
I thought this one was on par with the others in this series. To sum it up, I would say 'more of the same'. If you liked the other titles in this series you should like this one. If, on the other hand, you are looking for a more "High Tech" Weber than this isn't the book for you. Mr. Weber is cle...
Fun! A little overly complex but a good read. Rather too much techie detail.
Much better than the 3rd book in the series. Actually has some action in the first third of this book. Although I gave it 4 stars, it is more 3 1/2. The action was much better this book than last, but the continued complexity of explaining all of the different plot possibilities over and over ...
This companion series to the Honor Harrington books by Mr Weber alone are, to me, what David Weber would still be like if he'd stop indulging his interests in political and military history and got on with writing exciting action-oriented Space Opera. It's no fluke, either - see March Upcountry a...
I really enjoyed this book and my daughter is currently reading it on the kindle (I listened to the audio version). I've seen some reviews as people didn't like all the interplay between the kids and their emotions...come on people these are Young Adult books. Of course there is going to be a tor...
I have just finished the Empire of Man/Prince Roger series (so far), from book 2 March UpCountry to book 4 We Few. This is my second attempt at a David Weber series-- the first being the Safehold series, which created such a poor opinion that I abandoned it mid-read. I know that SF fans seem to...
I had trouble getting into this book, and even considered abandoning it early on because it wasn’t holding my interest. However, I did become more interested in it as things progressed.The story is that a group of space marines are escorting a prince to an event on another planet. The prince is t...
I've been working on this one for awhile--listening on the drive too and from work etc., and while I hesitate to give things I like a three on this site (as, in my opinion most reviews seem to treat a three as a negative or meh response despite it's definition as "I Like it"), but I just couldn't...
The City Guard changed, new men tramping miserably to their sodden posts through sheets of windy rain while others hurried back to the welcome comfort of barracks fires and hot food. Water chuckled and laughed through downspouts, then gurgled and chattered in the deep gutters, its voice lost in t...
Battalion-Captain Hymair chan Yahndar said, standing behind the desk in his cramped—extremely cramped—shipboard office. There was too little room, as his Karmalian grandmother would have said, to swing a sheep. Of course, chan Yahndar had never understood who’d want to swing a sheep, but the phra...
XII . Major Dan Torino, call sign “Longbow,” loved the F-22 Raptor. At 5'8" he was no towering giant (few fighter pilots were) but he had a compact, squared-off frame, a solid, hard-trained muscularity, heavy black eyebrows, a proud nose, and intense gray-green eyes. In many ways, he was an easyg...
Kosutic said.“It’s an art,” he replied, tapping the pad. “Despreaux’s blood pressure and heart beat both increase, they’re having an argument. Heart beat increases, and blood pressure drops, and they’re . . . not.”“What about Roger?” the sergeant major asked.“To tell you the truth, he’s scary,” J...
Master Varnaythus said sourly, leaning back in his comfortable chair in the windowless room. Malahk Sahrdohr sat across from him, eyeing the images in the gramerhain on the desk between them with an equally sour expression. Two coursers, a red roan and a chesnut with a white star, forged steadily...
Hegel DiLutorio, CAPT, RMN, ret.HMSS Hephaestus, 1906 PD Author’s Note: The author developed a healthy respect for and interest in armor systems during thirty odd years spent cursing the stuff while trying to get at some component or other. He is greatly indebted to friends at BuShips and various...
Royal Palace and Monastery of Saint Zherneau,City of Tellesberg,Kingdom of Charis “A moment, if you please, Seijin Merlin.” Merlin paused and looked up in some surprise as Archbishop Maikel laid a large, powerful hand lightly on his shoulder. “Yes, Your Eminence? How may I help you?” They stood j...
It was made of mutton, but “mutton” on Mobius was the product of the Mobian mountain sheep, a species unique to Mobius, which he privately thought had the potential to rival Montanan beef among the galaxy’s gourmands. It had a deep, rich taste, and just a trace of onion and a somewhat larger trac...
It began with only four small frigates, built in the Sol System for the Manticore Colony Trust of Zurich in 1389 PD, but has grown over the past five centuries into a potent fighting force with a solid core of ships of the wall supported by more numerous battlecruisers and smaller classes. Prior ...
<I feel well,> he replied, never taking his eyes from his person as she lay laughing in a deep patch of moss, covered in a pile of joyous kittens. The clan’s younglings found the two-leg’s mind-glow—and the welcoming delight which filled it—irresistible. <I will not pretend I do not some...
Treecats and their dwellings blended very well into their surroundings. Stephanie had visited Lionheart at “home” and knew what to look for. Treecats didn’t impact their environment as much as humans did, but they did create sleeping platforms and places where they could store food. Examining the...
Chapter Fifteen"Good evening, Your Majesty," His Crowned Eminence, the Seneschal of Othmaliz said as his visitor was shown into his private apartment in what had, until a very few weeks before, been known as the Great Palace."Good evening, Your Eminence," Chava Busar, Emperor of Uromathia, replie...
I ran into him the last time I was here on Mesa. I wasn’t sure of his identity at the time, though, so I let him go. I’d say I ‘unfortunately’ let him go, but it was actually quite fortunate, as it turns out. I put a tracking device on him this time so I’ll be able to reel him in and find out wha...
A series of upended barrels at one end served as the bar, and behind the barrels the carcass of some unknown beast turned slowly over a large brazier. There were several long tables scattered throughout the tent, and the Mardukans gathered at them shoveled in the barleyrice, meat, and vegetables ...
V .The Laughing Bride Tavern,City of Tellesberg,Kingdom of Charis The man who stepped through the Laughing Bride’s front door was plainly dressed. The hot, humid March night was blacker than the inside of a boot, but thunder rumbled out over Howell Bay, and occasional flashes of lightning lit the...
Jarith, Sylmahn Gap, Hildermoss Province, Republic of Siddarmark General Trumyn Stohnar contemplated the enormous map of the Sylmahn Gap on his office wall. The colored pins marking the known and estimated positions of the Church’s Army of the Sylmahn hadn’t moved very much over the past several ...
It’s good to see you again.” “And you, Honor,” Chien-lu Anderman, Herzog von Rabenstrange, said warmly as he shook the offered hand. The Andermani admiral, who just happened to also be Emperor Gustav’s first cousin, was a smallish man, not much larger than Honor’s Uncle Jacques. And like Jacques ...
Summit House Lodge, Province of Glacierheart, Republic of Siddarmark Your Eminence, how long have I been your valet?” Zhasyn Cahnyr turned to look at Fraidmyn Tohmys speculatively. He knew that long- suffering tone entirely too well. “For qui...
Svein Lombroso said unpleasantly. “I could go out and fuck everything up by the numbers myself without paying you and the rest of the Guard such obscene amounts of money! Hell, I could probably even have gotten Guernicke killed without you, if I’d really tried!” “Would you rather I’d let the bast...