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Peril and strife strike on a double front for Honor Harrington and company. After a brutal attack on the Manticoran home system, Honor Harrington has rooted out a plan designed to enslave the entire human species. Behind that plan lies the shadowy organization known as the Mesan Alignment. Task number one for Honor is to shut down and secure the wormhole network that is the source of the Star Kingdom's wealth and power—but also its greatest vulnerability. Yet this is an act that the ancient and corrupt Earth-based Solarian League inevitably takes as a declaration of war.

The thunder of battle rolls as the Solarian League directs its massive power against the Star Kingdom. And once again, Honor Harrington is thrust into a desperate battle that she must win if she is to survive to take the fight to the real enemy of galactic freedom—the insidious puppetmasters of war who lurk behind the Mesan Alignment!

Published 3/1/2012

SKU:	9781451638066
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1. Bill on 5/19/2012, said:

Too much pointless discussion among the Solarian bureaucrats. I agree with other reviewers that it seems like a book was cut in half. The ending of this book did not resolve any issues.
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2. Todd on 5/14/2012, said:

A lot of Honorverse readers got into this series due to the "space opera" aspects of the books -- clashes of space ships, with detailed descriptions of the actions of the heroic crews. Well -- the main line of books no longer fits that mold. It is more strategic in viewpoint, as Honor as moved up the ranks (in fact, Honor has become a member of an ensemble, rather than the focal character). That's ok, as long as we recognize this change in the series. The space opera has shifted to the branch-off supporting series, and that is fine for me. I thought this book was fine, in that it provided an account of "Rising Thunder". I expected little, as a result of the reviews I had read. So, it really exceeded my expectations. And, the book doesn't end with the royal wedding. Has it been enhanced since its original release?
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3. Keat on 5/10/2012, said:

I love this 'Universe' that several series are set in. This book was an interesting insight into the political workings of this Universe. As an Honor Harrington novel, however, I got to the end of the book and wondered, "Where was Honor?" There was no Honor Harrington story in this novel. She was a peripheral character at best. As an Honorverse book I would have rated this a 4 or 5, but as an Honor Harrington novel - she just wasn't there in any memorable form.
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4. Octav on 5/10/2012, said:

Honestly, my only complaint about this book is the Solarian bureaucrats are just terribly boring characters. Probably half of their dialogue could've been cut out and replaced with some showing of the consequences (which in most cases are just media reports to try to paint themselves in a good light). I will allow as to how the other half is probably necessary to help the story hang together.
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5. Doug on 4/28/2012, said:

I fell in love with the Honor Harrington series several years ago and can not get enough of her. I can not wait for the next book to come out. Thank you David Weber
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6. Richard on 4/24/2012, said:

Just too much conversation and not enough story. The earlier books in the series were so much more enjoyable for me as they were much more to the point. You still got conversations, and got to see into the characters minds, but not nearly to the extent you do in Mr. Weber's current works. I love his writings, but feel very dissapointed of late
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7. Becky on 4/19/2012, said:

Entertaining, enjoyable, but only half a book. And aren't the "goodies" clever, honourable and brave while the "baddies" are stupid, venal or powerless. I've waited a while for a proper HH book with a beginning, middle and end. This wasn't it.
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8. Martin on 4/10/2012, said:

More a "novela" than a true novel. Filler material, background political activity, and little else. Either a larger manuscript was cut into two books, or the manuscript published was rushed and unfinished. Readable, but not up to Mr. Weber's previous body of work.
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9. Anonymous User on 4/10/2012, said:

To paraphrase another David Weber character, Howard Anderson (Stars at War series): "400 pages of characters sitting around talking, and at the end the Crown Prince of Manticore gets married."
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10. Bulut on 4/4/2012, said:

This is a fairly satisfactory Honoverse book. I did not give it a 5-star rate mainly because the story is obviously cut in the middle and therefore the book is "short" for my taste. Otherwise a well-written plot which is told coherently and convincingly. I wasn't particularly put off by the longish "look I know you want the battle but you gotta read this stuff first" parts that set the scene for the main event in the book. The fates of the Solarian characters were a bit too obvious for the readers of the whole series now, but I still like the new characters and the emerging political actors. The book's plot holds together nicely with the overall Honor Harrington Series and its general direction. The really good news is that the writer has scored well in terms of a successful bridging of the Havenite conflict and the Solarian one, which means there's a lot of room to keep writing in that direction. All in all I thought it was a good book. You can't be a Honoverse reader and skip this one.
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