To End in Fire

The Honor Harrington Series: Crown of Slaves Saga, Book 4

By: David Weber, Eric Flint

Narrated by: Peter Larkin

Length: 25 hrs and 34 mins

Publisher's summary

The Crown of Slaves saga continues. Adventure and intrigue in Honor Harrington’s Star Kingdom from New York Times best-selling authors David Weber and Eric Flint.

The Solarian League lies in defeat, crushed by the Grand Alliance of Manticore, Haven, and Grayson.

Obedient to the Alliance's surrender demands, the League is writing a new Constitution, to prevent the reemergence of out-of-control bureaucrats, like the "Mandarins" who led it to disaster. Frontier Security has been disbanded, the outer worlds have regained control of their own economic destinies, and multiple star systems will soon secede from the League entirely.

Yet the League is—and will remain—the largest, most economically powerful human star nation in existence, and despite the overwhelming evidence that their unelected political leaders were the driving force behind the war, many League citizens deeply resent the fashion in which their star nation—the Solarian League—has been humbled. And those who most resent the Grand Alliance continue to blame Manticore for the nuclear bombardment of the planet Mesa after its surrender. They refuse to accept that the League—and the members of the Grand Alliance—could have been manipulated by a deeply hidden interstellar conspiracy called the Mesan Alignment. The Alignment is only an invention of the Grand Alliance, no more than a mask, a cover, for its own horrific Eridani Violations.

Those Solarians will never accept the war guilt of the League, because they know the Grand Alliance was just as bad. Because they deeply resent the way in which the Grand Alliance pretends to be the innocent "good guys." And in the fullness of time, those Solarians will seek vengeance upon their enemies.

Not all Solarians feel that way, but even some of those who accept that there was an interstellar conspiracy cherish doubts about its origins. But it is still out there, and now defeated Solarians and agents of the victorious Alliance must join forces to find it. Even if they don't believe in it, it believes in them.

They must find it and identify it, to prove to revanchist Solarians that there was a conspiracy.

And they must find it and destroy it to end its evil once and for all.

The Crown of Slaves Honorverse Series:

Crown of Slaves

Torch of Freedom

Cauldron of Ghosts

©2021 Words of Weber, Inc. & Eric Flint (P)2022 Audible, Inc.

wraps up Honor Harrington series

superb conclusion of Honor Harrington series
It wraps up the destiny of the Alignment,
and shows the basis of Manticore's
superior moral structure And reconclies
the enemy planets.

Excellent story !

The quality of this series is unsurpassed , In-depth and scope , sci-fi at its best .

Was expecting better

Don’t get me wrong the book was fine but really was expecting more. Side characters and stories were introduced and seemingly abandon. Many threads left open and unresolved and the last battle was silly in how tactics were not anticipated by the GA. Anyway not sure if there will be more books but the story is far from resolved.

A good conclusion

I disliked the narrator but was glad to finally reach a conclusion in the main story

great story a little to much filler.

This was a good story that I enjoyed. At times the filler information, many names, many places and details about warfare bogged me down and made me sleepy. It was great to have Honor Harrington back in action. I definitely enjoyed that part. overall it continues the saga wonderfully.

Not much here

Love catching up, and closure; but there needs to be some ‘beef.’ This was many hours of chats at ‘starbucks’, an elevator or the golf course. Even meetings were totally casual. No intrigue, fights between ambitious peers. Just endless dialog I often faded out of to find I’d been tuned out for an hour or more but didn’t miss a thing.

More Honorverse

First off, I'm confused about all the reviews calling this the end. without spoilers, the story isn't wrapped up and the ending sets up the next layer of the story fairly explicitly it seemed like to me.

I enjoyed it, and if you've read the stories this far and enjoy them, you'll probably enjoy this as well. It's not groundbreaking, the protags are mostly learning things we already know, though there is some new info and new nuance coming to light. All in all, i enjoy the overall story and this is part of it.

too, many lose strings

what happens to the series no that Erick has passed? Leaving us with such a tangle of lose ends is a very frustrating conclusion.

SSDD

Same stuff, different day. Hard to listen to and I skipped some chapters. How many battle scenes can one series of books need? How many decades of falling for the explanations of the Alignment Conspiracy do our heroes have to fall for?

About the narrator. The voicing of Honor Harrington sucked. Even her firmest statements sounded unconvincing. Had this book in the same length told this story and the next it might have held my attention and entertained me.

Good but rushed with unessesary charcher apperence

Over all I enjoyed this book there where thrre main issues. One the narator who did well in the past did some odd accents and new voices for characters that didn't work in my opinion. The First two thirds of the story work for the most part sowing the efforst to reconstruciton Mesa and mend fences with the Solarian League. the last part of the book feels realy rushed and should have been set aside for another story. The inclusion of Honor was unesesary Spoilers ahead:



I didn't think Honor needed to make an apperence this isn't her story putting her in it detracted from the rest of the narateive. The too easy discovery of "the other Mesan Alinment planet" felt rushed and made it seem like the Mesan's weren't as compitent as they have been in the past