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ukuleledan 's review for:
Uncompromising Honor
by David Weber
This is based on the e-ARC for sale on the Baen website. I expect there will be at least some changes (I hope so) from the official published version in October. I wanted to write a detailed review, but I'd have to use the spoiler tag.
After 26 years, 21 books (Honor, Crown, and Shadow), and over 10,000 pages, this is how David Weber chose to end the Honor Harrington story. And honestly? Not really. For a book that should be the epic conclusion to this series, entirely too much of it is spent setting up stories for other books. I knew going in that it wasn't going to be the ending I wished, but it managed to under-serve even those expectations.
The previous book, Shadow of Victory spent nearly 800 pages to move the plot forward literally just 3 days. It takes roughly 2/3 of Uncompromising Honor to get to that same point as well. And so much of it is spent in meetings. Meetings on Manticore. Meetings in Beowulf. Meetings on Old Earth. Meetings on Mesa. Meetings with the Alignment. Repeat. And so much of it is unnecessary. I ended up just skipping pages to get past some of them. And one specific part of it I absolutely hated. (spoilers)
There is action though. And most of it is excellent, as you'd expect from the series. Few do space combat better. But for the finale of this series, it doesn't feel like enough. And the ending... underwhelming. It was like David Weber suddenly realized he did have to actually finish the book but had run out of steam. It's not a bad ending. It's certainly no Out of the Dark. But it's not a worthy finish to this journey.
After 26 years, 21 books (Honor, Crown, and Shadow), and over 10,000 pages, this is how David Weber chose to end the Honor Harrington story. And honestly? Not really. For a book that should be the epic conclusion to this series, entirely too much of it is spent setting up stories for other books. I knew going in that it wasn't going to be the ending I wished, but it managed to under-serve even those expectations.
The previous book, Shadow of Victory spent nearly 800 pages to move the plot forward literally just 3 days. It takes roughly 2/3 of Uncompromising Honor to get to that same point as well. And so much of it is spent in meetings. Meetings on Manticore. Meetings in Beowulf. Meetings on Old Earth. Meetings on Mesa. Meetings with the Alignment. Repeat. And so much of it is unnecessary. I ended up just skipping pages to get past some of them. And one specific part of it I absolutely hated. (spoilers)
There is action though. And most of it is excellent, as you'd expect from the series. Few do space combat better. But for the finale of this series, it doesn't feel like enough. And the ending... underwhelming. It was like David Weber suddenly realized he did have to actually finish the book but had run out of steam. It's not a bad ending. It's certainly no Out of the Dark. But it's not a worthy finish to this journey.