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A review by hlau
Ashes of Victory by David Weber
2.0
It was boring.
I tried to like it. I held out hope it would be as good or better than the last. In the end, I was disappointed.
There's alot to like normally but this one feels like the rebound boyfriend or girlfriend; it had to happen and is best forgotten quickly.
Honor escapes Hell, frees a half a million people, and sails them home in ships she commandeered from the enemy. You'd think that'd be a great setup for some epic payback stories. But no, not really.
Instead we get a process book, with Tom Clancy-level dissertations on Havenite politics and military intrigue (which I wish was intriguing), missile tech, political parliamentary procedure, development of sign language, a contrived and fully implausible deus ex machina to put Honor in harm's way and a far too simple sidelining of the main character for every chapter except the last two.
And that's saying something after 8 previous books that each had elements present here, but at least spread out.
We're 8 books in and i know enough about Haven to despise them as much as Elizabeth III does. Do we really need yet more musings on their paranoia, cruelty and unlikeable qualities? You'd think a book with two substantive nuclear detonations in it would have more bang, but it just falls flat.
I tried to like it. I held out hope it would be as good or better than the last. In the end, I was disappointed.
There's alot to like normally but this one feels like the rebound boyfriend or girlfriend; it had to happen and is best forgotten quickly.
Honor escapes Hell, frees a half a million people, and sails them home in ships she commandeered from the enemy. You'd think that'd be a great setup for some epic payback stories. But no, not really.
Instead we get a process book, with Tom Clancy-level dissertations on Havenite politics and military intrigue (which I wish was intriguing), missile tech, political parliamentary procedure, development of sign language, a contrived and fully implausible deus ex machina to put Honor in harm's way and a far too simple sidelining of the main character for every chapter except the last two.
And that's saying something after 8 previous books that each had elements present here, but at least spread out.
We're 8 books in and i know enough about Haven to despise them as much as Elizabeth III does. Do we really need yet more musings on their paranoia, cruelty and unlikeable qualities? You'd think a book with two substantive nuclear detonations in it would have more bang, but it just falls flat.