Mission of Honor

As always there’s nothing more exciting than sitting down with a new Honor Harrington book. Alas as with every other book it eventually comes to the closing of the last page. David Weber really managed to outdo 99% of all the other authors out there when he introduced us to Honor Harrington. She is everything we look and hope for in a character. She is charismatic, calm under pressure, unconditionally loyal, fiercely protective, passionately honest, ruthlessly vengeful, and as, if not more, human than any character ever written. There is a strength in her. Also an unerring belief that once she knows what the right path is, it is for her to follow that path through to wherever it takes her. She is aptly named because honor is one of her most enduring qualities. When you add Honor to a cast of characters of just as richly developed, a plot as intricately twisted and dynamic as you’ve ever experienced, massive battles fraught with the manic euphoria of victory ,to the deepest despair of defeat, and the enjoyment of seeing things coming together in
the best and most hoped for ways, that’s when you rejoice at having had the incomparable privilege of allowing these stories and
characters in to your heart and your life.

Slow ponderous, nearly impossible read. Sometimes so bad that the thought occurs that it was written by a committee of circular logic intent on DRAWMA. (new word meaning melodramatic drama driven past rational limitations.) LOL Most damning points, missing content on interludes connecting to other books. Having the Harrington family take major hits to it’s member is just a lesson in sophmoric circular logic that she will respond more determinedly. Should be a ‘freebee’ as it is totally worthless. Sad thing is that it is NOT an Honor story, just more in a universe where she resides and that a writer(s?) have changed for wargaming reasons which are NOT particularly good or well written. The Ill logic of this change means that the new enemy wishes to conquer the Universe, yet the assets, funds, people used to confront Honor home would have been reaping hundreds of worlds to their banner. So like most megamaniac plots this one intently breaks down into unreasonable combat as the ‘sport’ of intense gentetic attacks. YUCK Worse the new alignment will be using fleets manned by genetic inferiors they have fooled into following them, NOT the supergenetic soldiery they are espousing. This muckle of idiocy is the all the writer(s?.) Thanks, Harry!

I paid for a NEW book for my son’s birthday. He was so excited because the book was supposed to contain a cd with the honor verse with the book. The BOOK is USED! The binding is loose! There is no CD inside. There was no link as there was when Amazon began selling books from different vendors. There was no indication that the book was from a different vendor. Truth is advertising is obviously dead! I want my money back! NOW!
I love David Weber’s Honor Harrington series. The author is a fantastic writer! This review isn’t about the author’s work, but about Amazon’s vendor’s shady business practices!

Mission of Honor (Honor Harrington Series #12) by David Weber

This piece is the crowning of a three book arc that leads into the next arc of stories in the never-ending story of Honor Harrington. David apparently had originally meant to kill off this main character somewhere along the line but she’s a bit more stubborn than that and just like all Manticorans – they don’t ‘run scared’ worth a damn.

There is a lot to love about this book as long as you are okay with all the political and military procedural exposition. It looks like the focus is on a new set of bad guys so that all our hero’s on both the Manticore and Haven fronts will get a break if they can just piece together a bit of peace between them.

We have in this book a parallel to the Pearl Harbor in a lot of life lost to a sneak attack. There is on awesome piece where David Weber focuses on Hamish as he observes Honor for the first time ever he gets to see the Salamander. It leaves him both chilled and in awe but you have to read it. I’d worry about it being a spoiler but its the inside page blurb piece in my book.

We get to see Michelle Henke in action again and she is almost a good at this stuff as Honor, but she admittedly doesn’t have the cool detachment that is evident in the Salamander.

So of the last three novels this one and the previous are real gems though the one before them is a bit of a speed-bump at the beginning. Overall the three make a nice set and can be considered some of David Weber’s best or hardest to get through depending on what the reader is looking for. I love characters over the procedure and exposition but I have to admit that David has won me over to his way of thinking for these books.

Yet another set the reader can love or hate or love to hate.

Great SFF for fans of the Military Political intrigue and procedure.

When the editors away the author will play-but I think he deserves the chance.

J.L. Dobias

Excellent plot. It did get a bit deep into the technology theorized by the author. The technological description is more than offset by the wide ranging canvas of the Honor Universe, and the varied and fascinating characters throughout its pages. Some you love, some you hate, and some you may not be sure about. Space Battles, political intrigue, and spacefaring merchants and pirates. Humor, tragedy, revenge, despair, and hope are sprinkled through the pages. One word of warning, it will be easy to get lost if the earlier novels have not been read. I would definitely recommend this book but not as a stand alone story.

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