A review by aiki
A Beautiful Friendship by David Weber

3.0

Well, my husband is trying to get me to read Weber's Honor Harrington series, and started by handing me a YA trilogy telling the story of Harrington's grandmother and how she met an intellegent species that is a part of the Harrington series.
I don't know, just kind of "meh". If you just look at it as an overview of how treecats were discovered by humans and what the species and their interactions with humans are like, it's pretty good. But from a plot structure standpoint, this story was very hit-and-miss. There were gaps in the story where events are skipped over but never fully explained, and characters who seem to be thrown in with not enough exposition or introduction.
Maybe the next book will go into greater detail on those skipped parts? *shrug*