War of Honor
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4.4 • 226 Ratings
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Publisher Description
NO ONE WANTED ANOTHER WAR
Thomas Theisman didn't. After risking his life and a fresh round of civil war to overthrow the Committee of Public Safety's reign of terror and restore the Republic of Haven's ancient Constitution, an interstellar war was the last thing he wanted.
Baron High Ridge didn't. The Prime Minister of Manticore was perfectly happy with the war he had. No one was shooting anyone else at the moment, and as long as he could spin out negotiations on the formal treaty of peace, his government could continue to milk all those "hostilities only" tax measures for their own partisan projects.
His Imperial Majesty Gustav didn't. Now that the fighting between the Star Kingdom and the Havenites had ended, the Andermani Emperor had his own plans for Silesia, and he was confident he could achieve them without a war of his own.
Protector Benjamin didn't. His people had made too deep a commitment to the Manticoran Alliance, in blood as well as treasure, for him to want to risk seeing it all thrown away.
And Honor Harrington certainly didn't. The "Salamander" had seen the inside of too many furnaces already, knew too much about how much war cost.
Unfortunately, what they wanted didn't matter . . .
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In previous installments of David Weber's bestselling space opera series featuring the intrepid Honor Harrington, she's won the sometimes unwilling admiration of friend and foe alike in her battles with the brutal and corrupt People's Republic of Haven. In her 10th outing, War of Honor, the People's Republic is no more, but Lady Admiral Harrington, following in the best tradition of C.S. Forester, Patrick O'Brian and Robert A. Heinlein, faces her most dangerous adversary yet: a new government in her own star kingdom run by the petty, venal and stupid former Opposition, who proceed to squander the hard-fought victory.
Customer Reviews
Not as good a read as the rest.
The writing is great, the only distaste I must confess is the lengths the author goes to write up more of the behind the scene thoughts and the mansplaining of the world building. The constant and tremendous amount of political drama takes away much of the allure I started with for the depth of the military sci-if. This writing barely had any HONOR content it was so much of the dead space content you see from writer that get into contracts they hate. Often times I pick up a series in its latter books. If the book excites me I will run off and pick up book 1 and start from the beginning. Had this been the first book that exposed me to honor or the author I never would’ve read another.
Slow-Moving, But Still Intriguing
As the series has progressed, these books have gotten slower moving and less exciting. They are much heavier on societal descriptions, long winded political intrigue that often goes nowhere and much less devoted to space opera action. And yet, somehow the books are still intriguing and even though I often skip parts of the them, I still read to the end and start the next one!