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It has become sadly clear that David Weber no longer possesses the skill to write at a professional level. The Safehold series has degenerated into an absurdly complex cast of thousands of nobodies going nowhere, and the Honorverse has been going downhill for some time. Now we have this... this shadow of a book. A pathetic mishmash of storylines which concerns a cast of nobodies on unimportant planets which are at best peripheral to the struggle between Manticore and Earth. Remember how Shadow of Freedom started? Remember wondering "Who are these people!? Where are all the characters and settings I've come to love? But after a couple of chapters, we reverted to them. That doesn't happen here. We go from one group of forgettable people with unpronounceable names to another planet with a group of forgettable people with unpronounceable names, to the evil schemers, then onto a third planet, then back to the evil schemers... There are brief interludes featuring RMN people we know, but usually just a few pages, for they're not the focus of this book. What this book looks to be is all the junk that was edited out of the last few books because it was not very interesting and contributed nothing to the arc of the story line. Weber has just jammed them all together, called it a book, and spit it out in utter contempt for his readers. Forget Honor Harrington. She's not here. And forget any forward progress in the story line. The various interminable plots of rebellion and then rebellions take place before the events not just of the last book but the book before that. If you waste your money on it you will be as frustrated and angry as I was at how a once great, rip roaring space opera has fallen to such depths of tedious boredom, as we read one group of dull, uninteresting plotters after another endlessly plotting. Save your money and, as I am now going to do, consider the Honorverse finished. And David Weber, as well.