A Rising Thunder

Honor Harrington, Book 13

By: David Weber

Narrated by: Allyson Johnson

Length: 17 hrs and 56 mins

Publisher's summary

Peril and strife strike on a double front for Honor Harrington and company. After a brutal attack on the Manticoran home system, Honor Harrington and the Star Kingdom she serves battle back against a new, technologically powerful, and utterly nefarious enemy. And as if that weren’t task enough, Honor must also face down a centuries-old nemesis in the crumbling, but still mighty, Solarian League.

The war between the People’s Republic of Haven and the Star Kingdom is finally won and peace established, but grave danger looms - for there is a plan well on its way to completion designed to enslave the entire human species. Behind that plan lies the shadowy organization known as the Mesan Alignment.

Task number one for Honor is to defend against another devastating Mesan strike - a strike that may well spell the doom of the Star Kingdom in one fell blow. It is time to shut down and secure the wormhole network that is the source of the Star Kingdom’s wealth and power - but also its greatest vulnerability. Yet this is an act that the Earth-based Solarian League inevitably will take as a declaration of war.

The thunder of battle rolls as the Solarian League directs its massive power against the Star Kingdom. And once again, Honor Harrington is thrust into a desperate battle that she must win if she is to survive to take the fight to the real enemy of galactic freedom: the insidious puppetmasters of war who lurk behind the Mesan Alignment!

©2012 Words of Weber, Inc. (P)2012 Audible, Inc.

Pretty darn good.

overall, not his best, and seemed to drag a little at times, but still, overall satisfying and complete.

Great story hurt by narration

The narrator continues to wear heavily on me, stop the horrible accents that don't fit the story!
Cease and desist!

tired of waiting

Whats the deal with holding the other half of the book??? if its ready then get it out here so i can darnwell finish the series!! making me wait is just going to push me to other series to listen too. Ya'll are trying to think like them dumb#$% movie people and hold up a sequel... IF YOU GOT THE THING WRITTEN, LIKE WAS SAID BEFORE YOU EVEN PUCLISHED THIS PART, THEN PUBLISH ALL OF IT!!!! i'd still buy both parts. just do it already!

declining glory...

Mr Weber has started depending on repeating sections as filler. Way too long between books, excessively convoluted story lines without satisfactory movement. Used to be one of my top 5 authors. After the stallout on the honor series, the dismal ending to the safehold series, and the abandoment altogether of prince roger, I think he is moving out of the top 50. Not even sure I want to risk money on next HH installment. Sad to see a long time fav whither and die. Would be better if he bowed out and sold continuation rights to someone that has more motivation.

Chapters in correct order in Standard Quality format

The chapters are out of order if you download in High Quality single part format. If you switch to standard quality before you download, the chapters are in the correct order.

It seems like there are three parts and they are linked out of order, Part 2 first, then Part 1 starts at "chapter 15", then Part 3 at "chapter 25". If you want high quality, choosing mulipart downloads for this download can help as the sections are correctly labeled and in the correct order. These choices are in the download settings for some devices.

Excellent book, Great Story.

David weber blends exciting and sometimes terrifying scientific and technological ideas with Galactic scale political intrigue. Even in the same old Honorverse, Weber continues to find new ways to intrigue us

loved it.

his stories strike deeply and the richness of the Honorverse series grows with each story. I look forward to the next story.

fantastic

absolutely fantastic story line I'm glad that they're finally diving into the solarian league story

Explains a lot about later books. Very enjoyable.

I had read most of the books but had skipped a lot of detail about Mesa and the Mandarins at the time because I was focused in the main action. This story in its details fills in the resulting blanks and gives the evil counter plots. The audible version is a great way to experience a complex story a second time via a fresh experience.

I HATE the year-long wait for the next installment

I've read all the books in the Honor Harrington saga multiple times. Some are better than others. At one point, it seemed like they were getting so incredibly long and so little happened, that I decided to stop reading the series, but at some point I gave in and got the books I had missed and started again, and the series has actually improved again. In the early books, the exciting action was carried mostly by Honor. Now that she is a bigwig, a lot of the better action sequences are carried by other people. But the story is interesting and exciting again. I got this book yesterday and have listened to it almost non-stop. And as it neared its end, I felt like groaning. Two days of intense involvement in the story and then 363 days waiting for the next installment. It's sheer torture.

If you have never read any of the Honor Harrington books, this is not the one to start with. The series should definitely be read in order. The first book is "On Basilisk Station." If you have been a fan of the Honor books, be glad. Weber has produced another worthy entry into the series.