A Rising Thunder

Honor Harrington, Book 13

De: David Weber

Narrado por: Allyson Johnson

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.

Fantastic Read!

I thuroughly enjoyed this novel. I wish the author had elaborated on the Manticoran system battle, but the book was still well written and its characters engaging.

This one just stops, no ending.

It seems Weber may be tending toward the episodic books with no ending. The "Who shot JR" endings may work on TV, but books that just stop without an ending are poor literature.

Next Event...

Of course Webers books more or less reenact historical events with space ships, and this will not be historically correct. But it is very entertaining. It's a bit like smashing giant robots into other giant robots. But that's what the sci-fi genre is there for, right? To do things impossible today.

However, the whole Star Kingdom turns Star Empire story, with the genius Honor Harrington saving the world starts to feel... stale. Familiar, comfortable, but slightly known. I'm taking away a story star for that, so if you don't mind this, just mentally add a star.

What I really don't like is that all the parties involved constantly compete in thinking all the others being more idiotic than the others think they are. Nobody ever thinks the opposing party might actually be smart, and all the leaders, military as political, are somehow bundles of uncontrollable emotions. This costs another story star.

The end is rather abrupt, as this is part of an ongoing series.

The narration is flawless, and helps over the rare outright boring parts.

All together this is a good listen for all who like military sci-fi with brief economic insights and endure the occasional report on royal weddings.

1st half

While the book is three parts long and may seem long, it is in fact only the 1st half of the book. It does end suddenly, but if you want honor then that's the price you have to pay. If you have the patience I would recommend that you wait until the 2nd half comes out.

Why change the pronunciation?

I really enjoy these books, including the technical details.

The characters are real, and frustrating, and heart breaking.

The narration is perfectly done by Johnson.

I am disappointed that the pronunciation of Manticore has been corrected to the true pronunciation. When I first heard Manticoran, instead of Mantickoran, I was confused. Now I am just mentally correcting to the preferred “mispronunciation.” I feel like Mr Weber should have left perfection alone.