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A review by kikiandarrowsfishshelf
Ashes of Victory by David Weber
2.0
Honor is great!
Honor is grand!
Let's sing about Honor while we stand on our hands!
And that is what is wrong with this. Honestly, I debtated, am still debating whether to give one or two stars. The Honor worships was so over the top, it wasn't even funny. I can't even write this review without treecats telling me what they think of Honor.
BLEEP!
See?
Yet the bits with the Havenites, god that was good. I wanted more of that. Take out are the pages, pages, pages, and pages (be quiet White Haven! I know you love her, even though you cheat on your wife, it's honorable because it's just sex, which is why you feel you can't have Honor, pluze), pages of Honor worships, and you have a really good book.
Shorter though.
Way shorter. So short!
The problem is that constantly being told by every character (except the baddies and we know they're baddies because they don't tell us) that Honor is wonderful and then Weber telling us again sounds really stupid. Of course, Honor doesn't want the money because she has never wanted for anything in her life anyway. And poor Honor, having to walk by a statue in her honor. And the whole school thing, don't even get me started. Look Honor is humble! Look Honor is a great teacher! Look once her face is fix Honor will be beautiful again! Look, Weber, is Honor going to ascend? Cause otherwise, Rappicinni's Daughter. That's all I got to say (and stop with the infro dumping)
What really gets me annoyed is that the Honor worship takes away from the other characters. In a society where children are needed are Miranda and Andrew married to anyone? If not, why, considering Grayson? What about the Honor's family?
More importantly, the whole business with Haven, extremely intersting and beautiful was totally like subsumed into this Honor worship vortex. I would have loved to see more of the politics there because that is where Weber can really, really write. Truly. And that's why I am so annoyed at the Honor worship because it ruined what should have been a good book.
Honor is grand!
Let's sing about Honor while we stand on our hands!
And that is what is wrong with this. Honestly, I debtated, am still debating whether to give one or two stars. The Honor worships was so over the top, it wasn't even funny. I can't even write this review without treecats telling me what they think of Honor.
BLEEP!
See?
Yet the bits with the Havenites, god that was good. I wanted more of that. Take out are the pages, pages, pages, and pages (be quiet White Haven! I know you love her, even though you cheat on your wife, it's honorable because it's just sex, which is why you feel you can't have Honor, pluze), pages of Honor worships, and you have a really good book.
Shorter though.
Way shorter. So short!
The problem is that constantly being told by every character (except the baddies and we know they're baddies because they don't tell us) that Honor is wonderful and then Weber telling us again sounds really stupid. Of course, Honor doesn't want the money because she has never wanted for anything in her life anyway. And poor Honor, having to walk by a statue in her honor. And the whole school thing, don't even get me started. Look Honor is humble! Look Honor is a great teacher! Look once her face is fix Honor will be beautiful again! Look, Weber, is Honor going to ascend? Cause otherwise, Rappicinni's Daughter. That's all I got to say (and stop with the infro dumping)
What really gets me annoyed is that the Honor worship takes away from the other characters. In a society where children are needed are Miranda and Andrew married to anyone? If not, why, considering Grayson? What about the Honor's family?
More importantly, the whole business with Haven, extremely intersting and beautiful was totally like subsumed into this Honor worship vortex. I would have loved to see more of the politics there because that is where Weber can really, really write. Truly. And that's why I am so annoyed at the Honor worship because it ruined what should have been a good book.