At All Costs Honor Harrington Book 11 (Audible Audio Edition) David Weber Allyson Johnson Audible Studios Books
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What price victory? The war with the Republic of Haven has resumed... disastrously for the Star Kingdom of Manticore. Admiral Lady Dame Honor Harrington, Steadholder and Duchess Harrington, the single victorious Allied commander of the opening phase of the new war, has been recalled from the Sidemore System to command Eighth Fleet. Everyone knows Eighth Fleet is the Alliance's primary offensive command, which makes it the natural assignment for the woman the media calls "the Salamander." But what most of the public DOESN'T know is that not only are the Star Kingdom and its Allies badly outnumbered by the Republic's new fleet, but that the odds are going to get steadily worse.
Eighth Fleet's job is to somehow prevent those odds from crushing the Alliance before the Star Kingdom can regain its strategic balance. It's a job which won't be done cheaply. Honor Harrington must meet her formidable responsibilities with inferior forces even as she copes with tumultuous changes in her personal and public life. The alternative to victory is total defeat, yet this time the COST of victory will be agonizingly high.
A Note from Author David Weber
There's been some confusion-not to say, um, energetic debate, readers and fans being readers and fans-about the correct pronunciation of "Manticoran." The truth, alas, is that a stitch was dropped. An error occurred. A mistake was made... and it wasn't Audible's fault. It was mine. Before Audible recorded the very first Honor Harrington book, narrator Allyson Johnson and I not only corresponded by e-mail but actually spoke to one another by phone. She wanted to make absolutely certain she had the correct pronunciations for names, places, star nations, etc., and I tried to make certain all of her questions were answered. And so they were. Unfortunately, at some point in the process, I replied to one of her e-mails by telling her that "Man-ti-core-ahn" was pronounced "Man-tik-er-ahn." Exactly how this happened is more than I can say at this point, except to blushingly disclose that the original e-mail remains intact, confirming to all the world that it was, indeed, my fault. I can ascribe it only to a temporary mental hiccup on my part and crave your forgiveness. If, however, you must blame someone for the mix-up, that someone should be me and not Audible, who have done everything they could to get it right.
At All Costs Honor Harrington Book 11 (Audible Audio Edition) David Weber Allyson Johnson Audible Studios Books
Weber's titanic saga continues in Harrington's latest escapade "At All Costs".While both sides pause to catch their breath it becomes readily apparent that the balance of forces is dangerously close, and the future of the Star Kingdom balances on a knife edge.
At All Costs continues the Harrington Saga in much the way its been unfolding, if you've made it this far you've already decided you're a fan of Weber's style and characterizations. His style is what it is, I personally love the technical explanations, but I know it can be jarring for some.
One warning must be made - some elements and characters from the Shadows of Saganami and Crown of Slaves series' both show up and have a huge impact on the story, entire chapters are written in the voice of characters who I can only assume are from these series. If you're not familiar with them (as I am not) you can find yourself doubling back quite often as they made reference to names, events, and organizations that before now you've not heard of (in THIS book series) with absolutely no effort to hold your hand if you're not caught up on the other series (I'm told they're quite good).
Even with the oblique references though, the story moves well, the characters are three dimensional, there is excellent development, and the action - though a little long in coming - is an excellent climax to a book loaded with build up.
Definitely recommended.
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At All Costs Honor Harrington Book 11 (Audible Audio Edition) David Weber Allyson Johnson Audible Studios Books Reviews
I'm maybe 1/3rd of the way into it, and there's already been more space battles than were in the entire preceding book. Also, there is some domestic fallout that arises from some personal interaction in the previous book. The Havenites are getting a clue that they were maneuvered into a war with Manticore, et. al., so this is a lot more interesting than the previous effort, unless you like a lot of talking heads sitting around discussing what happened, and what they are going to do about it.
At All Costs by David Weber
I've now reached that place in this series where I am reading this one for the first time. I can honestly say that this is another of those turning points. Where the previous book War of Honor was long with few significant space battles, this book still has a lot of world building exposition pertaining to the arms race and the political intrigue, but I think David Weber wisely put a fair amount of action and space conflicts.
This book also is the first book to make it very clear that the message David means to send is that war is hell and no matter how hard the characters try to avoid it something or someone conspires to throw them directly into it and each character is now doing their duty on either side of the fight while resisting the whole process.
But when all is said and done when the battle arrives it is no holds barred and pulling out all the stops for either side to do their best. Still, because of all the time spent on building the readers knowledge of the armament being used on both sides with the bulk of description heavy toward Manticore it sometimes seems a foregone conclusion who will win and the true score card is the one that keeps track of which of Honor's friends will not come home from battle.
The Solar League plays heavy in things this time, though it appears they have had their hand in things from the beginning. So if it was hard enough to keep up with all the intrigue in Haven and Manticore now we add the Solar League and it's a real mess keeping up.
Once again and always I advise starting at the beginning of this series and work your way up the numbers to acclimate to David's style of writing and the Long Story that he creates. Although I will say this much if you want to start close to the end this one has the most coherent storyline to update the new reader to what's been happening and the best examples of the space conflicts David does so well. It's the best of most worlds and also contains all the juicy details about Honor Harrington and how she becomes Honor Alexander-Harrington.
The story begins where War of Honor left off. Haven has struck back into war from the belief that Manticore has been negotiating in bad faith, though the reader knows better from what we do know of what happened in that book. Now Haven's government and military must deal with the truth as it begins to unfold. The realization that they have dug themselves in deep because events have managed to isolate them from any probable chance of reinstating negotiations.
They still try but there are forces out there conspiring to make sure that negotiations never happen so the war must go on while the balance shifts back and forth with bold moves from both sides causing the enemy all sorts of trouble. Finally things escalate to a point where the ambitions of both sides have grown in proportion to the increasing deadliness of the arms. When everything hits the fan there will be no way to avoid mass casualties.
David Weber weaves a convincing story where no one can be the winner and no one can back down. Though some times gruelingly long this one continues the story begun in War of Honor and it looks as though it will continue into the Mission of Honor. Racking up a total of over 2400 pages of Honor Harrington history.
I recommend this to all fans of Honor Harrington and those who like SFF with political intrigue and suspense and some awesome world building.
Fortunately the next novel is available so when you get to the end and want to know more; you can just swing right into Mission of Honor. Good Reading to you.
J.L. Dobias
I like how the Honorverse is continually evolving. I realise it makes me probably in a minority but I really do anyway.
The Honorverse fandom dynamics reminds me a lot of Star Trek various Trekkies always bickering between the " Thou shall not deviate from Canon , and I will tell you what is and is not Canon !! " purist of TOS and NextGen VS the later fans of the " It"s an evolving universe ! so take your tribbles and go have a drink on Risa" school of thoughts .
The back and forth from purely tactical battle scenes to grand galactic political scheme entertains me. The continuous intro of new charaters and the development of older ones is fun to watch . I can find elements to love in both and that's why I like the later books almost ( yes ok...David can get a bit verbose with the tech! ) as the earlier ones.
Weber's titanic saga continues in Harrington's latest escapade "At All Costs".
While both sides pause to catch their breath it becomes readily apparent that the balance of forces is dangerously close, and the future of the Star Kingdom balances on a knife edge.
At All Costs continues the Harrington Saga in much the way its been unfolding, if you've made it this far you've already decided you're a fan of Weber's style and characterizations. His style is what it is, I personally love the technical explanations, but I know it can be jarring for some.
One warning must be made - some elements and characters from the Shadows of Saganami and Crown of Slaves series' both show up and have a huge impact on the story, entire chapters are written in the voice of characters who I can only assume are from these series. If you're not familiar with them (as I am not) you can find yourself doubling back quite often as they made reference to names, events, and organizations that before now you've not heard of (in THIS book series) with absolutely no effort to hold your hand if you're not caught up on the other series (I'm told they're quite good).
Even with the oblique references though, the story moves well, the characters are three dimensional, there is excellent development, and the action - though a little long in coming - is an excellent climax to a book loaded with build up.
Definitely recommended.
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