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A review by david_megginson
Honor Bound by W.E.B. Griffin
3.0
Griffin writes entertaining books, including this series, but like the Corps and Brotherhood of War series, it loses steam as it goes: each book has more pages and less plot. In this series, Griffin (and his son, who co-authored) also have a strange fixation against Evita Perón, portraying in a later book as a vulgar sex worker, and also (ahistorically) claiming that Juan Perón had never been married before.
But the biggest problem with this and his other series is that they don't portray anything like the actual conditions military personnel live under. Every series I've read so far has at least one fantastically rich and powerful officer who takes the other characters under his wing and puts them up in mansions or five-star hotels, or flies them around in his private airliners. Frequently, they also have political influence right up to the president. I doubt most veterans had military service like that.
So yes, entertaining adventure stories (at least early in this series), but turn your B.S. detector up to 11 and prepare for the occasion not-subtle NRA plug along the way.
But the biggest problem with this and his other series is that they don't portray anything like the actual conditions military personnel live under. Every series I've read so far has at least one fantastically rich and powerful officer who takes the other characters under his wing and puts them up in mansions or five-star hotels, or flies them around in his private airliners. Frequently, they also have political influence right up to the president. I doubt most veterans had military service like that.
So yes, entertaining adventure stories (at least early in this series), but turn your B.S. detector up to 11 and prepare for the occasion not-subtle NRA plug along the way.