Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Nothing. Happens. Seriously, you could just skip to the last chapter and be ready for the next book. There were several weddings, a few funerals, some political machinations and upheavals, but in the end nothing happened. The final chapter in the book is the only one that couldn’t have been glossed over in a preface to the next tome. See, there needed to be some big enemy or evil plot that was fighting the good guys, but there wasn’t. It was just...people being people. Another criticism is that I got a bit tired of having noblewomen explain how they aren’t shocked by coarse language. It got boring. Or the overused metaphor that is an understatement that has to be thoroughly explained to be an understatement. It got repetitive. There was no plot. No driving force, except waiting for something to maybe happen that might not actually happen for another 80yrs if someone counted wrong. David Weber writes some great scenes. The emotions he can evoke with his words are deep. Some parts of this book have those moments. But it shouldn’t have been published like this. This was boring and pointless. The stories may have needed to be written, but they shouldn’t have been presented to us the way they were. If you are a long time fan, read it. The voice is there. If you like your reading to have a point? Your time is better spent elsewhere.