Title: The worst of the lot....by a great deal
Product review: What an INCREDIBLE disappointment. Doesn't Weber have an editor? Or does Baen just publish whatever he shoves under the door? This is a work with almost no action, ENDLESS exposition and backfill, no well drawn characters, cliche after cliche, and a universe filled with either awful people or military heroes. Surely somewhere in Manticore there's someone in the Opposition who isn't self-interested, brain-dead scum. But that is beyond Weber. This book is so flat, so dismal, so self-inflated that there's no time to generate any interesting characters (although there are many places where we'd like to meet someone new and exciting).My recommendation: don't bother. Weber is tired, his universe is tired, and Honor is behind a desk. Declare a final and lasting peace and write something new.
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