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A review by erin_penn
Hell's Foundations Quiver: A Novel in the Safehold Series by David Weber
2.0
(SERIES BOOK - DO NOT START WITH THIS ONE)
The eighth book of the Safehold series, Hell's Foundation Quiver, reads like a treatise on the historical development of military weapons and tactics during the early 1900s. I skipped whole paragraphs, sometimes even pages, as I slogged through the book - and I am interested in this sort of thing.
Characterization is minimal. While each character does thing in line with their past history and loyalties, every character talks about the same and have very similar decision making processes. People I loved for their uniqueness are little more than placeholders moving one year forward in the shared history of the world.
The center stage was the development of weapons - how naval weapon and land-based weapons were created and modified to meet different needs. I hope Mr. Weber remembers story-telling is about people, not things, soon, because I am about leave this very interesting world because of boredom. I've already skipped a book of the series (maybe two) and took over a year to pick this one up.
The eighth book of the Safehold series, Hell's Foundation Quiver, reads like a treatise on the historical development of military weapons and tactics during the early 1900s. I skipped whole paragraphs, sometimes even pages, as I slogged through the book - and I am interested in this sort of thing.
Characterization is minimal. While each character does thing in line with their past history and loyalties, every character talks about the same and have very similar decision making processes. People I loved for their uniqueness are little more than placeholders moving one year forward in the shared history of the world.
The center stage was the development of weapons - how naval weapon and land-based weapons were created and modified to meet different needs. I hope Mr. Weber remembers story-telling is about people, not things, soon, because I am about leave this very interesting world because of boredom. I've already skipped a book of the series (maybe two) and took over a year to pick this one up.