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This is still a good book, just not quite as good as I remembered. Unlike the other entries in this series, #8 is broken into "books" which follow different storylines, one for Honor Harrington on Hades, one for Peep stories, and one for everywhere else. All of these storylines are pretty heavy-hitting; this is the entry in the Honorverse that kicks off a whole new kind of war and the body count, momentum change, and POW/escape story line are all emotionally loaded, although never sluggish. Webe
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Not my favorite in the series so far, I have to say. The storyline felt disjointed and I didn't feel like we got to know the new characters very well. Of course, some of them didn't last long, so I guess that's OK. I do like the way the young Clinkscales, so awkward when we met him, has matured. And the insights into White Haven's emotions were helpful to my understanding of the relationship between Honor and him.
Honor's "battle" near the end of the book was wonderfully amazing and a great vindi ...more
Honor's "battle" near the end of the book was wonderfully amazing and a great vindi ...more
The pace is already set from the previous book. The goal is clear, to escape from the prison planet Hades. The question is how?
Using his inner cadre that survived the death while escaping from Peeps prison ship, Harrington is making a plan. Fortunately, she has quite a resource with her. What she does not have is manpower, which are plenty in this prison planet.
At the home front, Harrington ideas are put into design, the new Medusa class Super Dreadnaught, the missile pod carrying dreadnaught, a ...more
Using his inner cadre that survived the death while escaping from Peeps prison ship, Harrington is making a plan. Fortunately, she has quite a resource with her. What she does not have is manpower, which are plenty in this prison planet.
At the home front, Harrington ideas are put into design, the new Medusa class Super Dreadnaught, the missile pod carrying dreadnaught, a ...more
Wow! Well, it took me a while, but I've finished Echoes of Honor...with very mixed feelings.
I understand peoples irritation at the sometimes unnecessary, info dumps; plus the wariness/confusion at the depth of a love that we, the readers, didn't see coming from a man we don't really know that well other than he's not exactly faithful.
All in all, however, I liked this book! This is actually where I started to get burned out the first time I attempted to read this series, and I realized, this tim ...more
I understand peoples irritation at the sometimes unnecessary, info dumps; plus the wariness/confusion at the depth of a love that we, the readers, didn't see coming from a man we don't really know that well other than he's not exactly faithful.
All in all, however, I liked this book! This is actually where I started to get burned out the first time I attempted to read this series, and I realized, this tim ...more
This is a triumph against the odds story.
This was a good story, but the writing could have been "tighter" - it wasn't a 700 page story... 150 or so pages of self-recrimination could have been cut...
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3.5 Way too long and filled with boring tactical stuff, but the ending was smashing.
This was a pretty good adventure story.
Oct 05, 2010
Ellie
marked it as to-read
Mar 02, 2014
Evan Scangas
marked it as to-read
