The Shadow of Saganami

By: David Weber

Narrated by: Jay Snyder

Length: 30 hrs and 53 mins

Publisher's summary

The Star Kingdom has a new generation of officers! And this elite group hand-picked and trained by Honor Harrington herself is going to be needed immediately, as their first assignment turns out to be more dangerous than anyone expected.

What was supposed to be a quiet outpost, far from the blazing conflict between the Star Kingdom of Manticore and the People's Republic of Haven has actually been targeted by an unholy alliance between the slaveholders of Manpower, the rival star kingdoms of Mesa and Monica, and the bureaucrats of the Solarian League.

The alliance stands to benefit if the Havenites defeat Manticore, and are preparing for a surprise attack from the rear to divide Manticore's forces, which are already strained nearly to their limits. With their captain, the young Manticoran officers will risk their careers, if not their lives, on an unauthorized mission to expose and counter the threat to their Star Kingdom. Follow their journey as they show what they're made of.

New York Times best-selling author David Weber begins a new series that will be a must-buy for the hundreds of thousands of Honor Harrington fans.

©2005 David Weber (P)2009 Audible, Inc.

Great read

Wonderful story, decently read, but Reader could use some work on female voices, still a great read.

Great Story, performance only lacking in one area.

The story is solid. The performance is solid except in one regard. Female voices seem to a difficulty for Mr. Snyder. None of the female voices were good. He needs to work on that. On the plus side, he did a very good job on all the diferent accents. Over all, I would recommend him in the future.

Great. Good entry point

I loved this book. Great characters, strong politics, amazing action. If you want to get into the Honorverse without having to read all the previous books, this books also works well as a standalone novel.

Honor Harrington Universe Book 17

"TRADITION LIVES !!!!!!!!!!!!"

Ever since the first years of colonization of Manicore, Royal Manticoran Navy was it's Shield and Sword against Pirates, rogue attackers and Military invasions.

New junction of the wormhole leads to Talbot Cluster (17 populated Staк Systems)
It's been decided that "Star Kingdom" is no more from this Point on "Star Empire of Manticore" is born, request for annexation from Talbot cluster has been granted and now Royal Manticoran Navy also have new responsibilities.
Pirates and terrorists, minority opposition to annexation, unstable political situation in every star system.

This is Helen Zilwicki's Midshipwoman cruise aboard the heavy cruiser HMS Hexapuma, deployed to the Talbott Cluster, under the command of Captain Aivars Terekhov.

And the worst part to all of it is Solarian League Frontier Fleet, according to all sources Solarian League Supposed to consume Talbot Cluster in the next 50 years, but these 17 Star systems have another Idea.


NEXT BOOK IS "At All Costs"

Female Voices

Would you listen to The Shadow of Saganami again? Why?

story is great, narrator is terrible

What was one of the most memorable moments of The Shadow of Saganami?

the viewing bubble get away

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Jay Snyder?

someone else

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

no

Any additional comments?

Narrator's female voices are terrible, they all sound alike high and screechy

This reader shouldn’t do voices.

I liked how this reader read everything except dialog.

Thank god I know no women who sound like this reader read them.

I am also thankful I’ve never met men who would talk as overly dramatically as those voiced here.

In my opinion this reader just reading would be fine - but voices and inflections should be left out.

This was so distracting I really didn’t get a chance to enjoy the book like I have soooo many other Honorverse books.

great story, weird performance

I liked the story a lot, but the narrator left something to be desired. Anytime he was speaking for a female character, it was always with this super high, breathy voice that didnt actually fit the characterization or in book description. I was able to ignore it eventually, but it's super annoying

Dat voice...

Great story but the male narrator can't do female voices at all. They sound like Mrs Doubtfire and his closest drag sisters speaking. Every female voice sounds horrid. You're better off just reading the book.

Falsetto female voices by reader are ridiculous

What did you like best about The Shadow of Saganami? What did you like least?

Good Story if you like the Honor Harrington series

Any additional comments?

The falsetto voices used by the male reader are completely ridiculous and take away from the otherwise excellent storyline.

PERFECT

Perfect in every way.
Enough said in my opinion.
Absolutely must read/listen to for ANY avid reader/listener.