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Title: Field of Dishonor by David Weber ISBN: 0-7434-3574-5 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.92 (24 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: The only true "Science Fiction" author I read consistently.
Comment: I usually prefer Fantasy novels; but David Weber's strong female heroine lured me into this series and his writing has kept me comming back for more. I have to admidt that this particular book is the only one in my adult life to have me in tears from early in the book until the end. As much as I hated the character's death that made me cry - it was not a gratuitous death. This person's death not only defined the course of this novel, but also had a profound effect on the heroine's life and career. This effect has continued on into later books. This is the only time I have seen the death of a lover depicted as a life-altering event. Honor does not morn and then continue her life as before. This death effects her actions in this book, changes the path of her career and contiues to echo into later books about her. I hate seeing such an important character die, but David Weber made his death a major pivital part of the book and Honor's life
Rating: 5
Summary: Courts-martial, treachery and death!
Comment: David Weber's books just keep getting better and better! Here's the fourth book of the series, and Honor Harrington must fight on a different battlefield.
Honor returns from Hancock Station (The Short Victorious War), transporting Captain Lord Pavel Young, who stands accused of cowardice in the face of the enemy. If found guilty, the sentence is death. However, through surprising twists and turns, someone else dies first.
Honor takes a sabbatical for a while, as her command, HMS Nike, is in the slips for major overhaul and refitting following the pounding she received at the hands of the Peeps. She returns to Grayson to take up her duties as Steadholder. When her former executive officer stops by, she receives news that causes her to hot-foot it back to Manticore. What happens next is the tale of her courageous fight for justice in the face of political intrigue and compromise, and how that same compromise winds up treating her even more unfairly than any enemy action.
Read it. Honor's legend keeps growing, and it is well justified. What keeps me reading, more than anything else, is that she continues to be a very real and sometimes vulnerable person, despite a record of achievement that is reaching mythic proportions. Did I say read it? No, absorb it, dwell in it. In an earlier review I said that, speaking as a sailor myself, Honor is the kind of CO I want to work for. I'll go farther - Honor's the kind of CO I'd kill for and die for. 'Nuff said.
Rating: 4
Summary: Not your typical Honor Harrington
Comment: This one is somewhat lacking in bomb pumped lasers clawing at sidewalls, but it's a great Honor Harrington book. Loyal crew risking their careers more than their lives this time, life and death, and that special Honor something. I wouldn't reccomend it as a good place to start in on the series, but it's a fine second book, unless you are a stickler for reading series in order.
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Title: Honor Among Enemies (Honor Harrington Series, Book 6) by David Weber ISBN: 0671877836 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Honor of the Queen by David Weber ISBN: 0743435729 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: In Enemy Hands (Honor Harrington Series, Book 7) by David Weber ISBN: 0671577700 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Echoes of Honor (Honor Harrington Series, Book 8) by David Weber ISBN: 0671578332 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Ashes of Victory (Honor Harrington Series, Book 9) by David Weber, David Mattingly ISBN: 0671578545 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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