Uncompromising Honor

David Weber

2018

This should have been quite an exciting book as Honor and the Grad Alliance finds itself in a fight to the death between the Alliance and the Solarian League. On paper, this should have been a walk over for the Sollies - they had more ships in their mothballed fleet, but while the old saw 'Never mind the Quality, feel the Width' might be vakid in some circumstances, the absolute technological superiority of the ALliance means that sheer numbers are meaningless. Or it would if there wasn't a hidden player aiming to even up the battlefield. And there bwas the utter ferocity of the League's Mandarins as theyt fight for personal survival.

However, the book is bitty, taking us to a wide number of locations throughout the galaxy and while they do finally tie together into the main flow of the book, i was left with a serious sense of dislocation by that point, and I felt that the final denouement with the League was anticlimatic, especially after the way the League had been built up as the Great Threat throughout the series.

---