At All Costs by David Weber
Nov. 8th, 2005 08:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desertvixenSo, I finished it. 827 pages, which is why my LJ has been very quiet these few days.
Go read the book. It's so worth it. Of course, there's also moments where you roll your eyes, or laugh, or absolutely hate David Weber's guts. I'm not prepared to say that this is his overall best book, but I think it has some of the best moments. It's also the only David Weber book that has made me cry. Nice admin touch - character list and definitions in the back of the book.
Spoilers:
Well, ah, let's see. First off, as we've all guessed from the cover, Honor gets pregnant. Betcha can't guess who the father is. He did come up with an explanation for how it happened (ie, considering they have the implants).
I have one tiny quibble about the kid's name. Steadholder, and he only gets 3 names? Raoul Alfred Alistair... Hey, what about *Andrew*?
Also, the Harrington/White Haven problem is resolved. They took part of what I thought was going to happen.
The Battle of Manticore. Need I say more?
Honor and Hamish. Tickle fight. Naked tickle fight. I'm glad he's gotten better at writing intimacy and sexuality.
Some characters get what they deserve. Some manage to fuck things up by dying. Namely, Giancola.
There's echoes of other books in this one, especially in the strategeies.
Allison Harrington is in fine form. I'd like to be her when I grow up.
I sort of wonder, if this is the last Harrington book. Because it seems like things are coming full circle in some ways. Honor is being open about how she feels for people. He's writing her as a human being, and it's good. She assigns Andrew LaFollett to be her son's bodyguard, partly because she knows SHE's the reason he's never married and had a family. And because on the level it counts on, they love each other. That almost made me cry, the scene between them.
He also jerks us around a little bit, by doing something that I said would likely make me stop reading the series. But he let us believe for that one moment that he hadn't done it.
There's a lot of people gone in this book. Howard Clinkscales dies in the beginning, but that's not unexpected. Javier Giscard - gone. Admiral Theodosia Kuzak - gone. Simon Mattingly - gone.
Rear Admiral Alistair McKeon - gone. I have said that if he killed off Rafe Cardones or Alistair McKeon, I would have to seriously reconsider reading the series.
But the last lines of the book are what really got to me. Even more than the hope held out, then snatched away from Honor (and us) that once more McKeon has managed to cheat death with her.
Fly, Alistair, Honor Alexander-Harrington thought, Wherever you are, wherever God takes you, fly high. I'll guard the Phoenix for you, I promise. Goodbye. I love you.
I think I'm going to go be depressed for awhile.
Off to type up some fanfic now, and hopefully cheer up.
DV
Go read the book. It's so worth it. Of course, there's also moments where you roll your eyes, or laugh, or absolutely hate David Weber's guts. I'm not prepared to say that this is his overall best book, but I think it has some of the best moments. It's also the only David Weber book that has made me cry. Nice admin touch - character list and definitions in the back of the book.
Spoilers:
Well, ah, let's see. First off, as we've all guessed from the cover, Honor gets pregnant. Betcha can't guess who the father is. He did come up with an explanation for how it happened (ie, considering they have the implants).
I have one tiny quibble about the kid's name. Steadholder, and he only gets 3 names? Raoul Alfred Alistair... Hey, what about *Andrew*?
Also, the Harrington/White Haven problem is resolved. They took part of what I thought was going to happen.
The Battle of Manticore. Need I say more?
Honor and Hamish. Tickle fight. Naked tickle fight. I'm glad he's gotten better at writing intimacy and sexuality.
Some characters get what they deserve. Some manage to fuck things up by dying. Namely, Giancola.
There's echoes of other books in this one, especially in the strategeies.
Allison Harrington is in fine form. I'd like to be her when I grow up.
I sort of wonder, if this is the last Harrington book. Because it seems like things are coming full circle in some ways. Honor is being open about how she feels for people. He's writing her as a human being, and it's good. She assigns Andrew LaFollett to be her son's bodyguard, partly because she knows SHE's the reason he's never married and had a family. And because on the level it counts on, they love each other. That almost made me cry, the scene between them.
He also jerks us around a little bit, by doing something that I said would likely make me stop reading the series. But he let us believe for that one moment that he hadn't done it.
There's a lot of people gone in this book. Howard Clinkscales dies in the beginning, but that's not unexpected. Javier Giscard - gone. Admiral Theodosia Kuzak - gone. Simon Mattingly - gone.
Rear Admiral Alistair McKeon - gone. I have said that if he killed off Rafe Cardones or Alistair McKeon, I would have to seriously reconsider reading the series.
But the last lines of the book are what really got to me. Even more than the hope held out, then snatched away from Honor (and us) that once more McKeon has managed to cheat death with her.
Fly, Alistair, Honor Alexander-Harrington thought, Wherever you are, wherever God takes you, fly high. I'll guard the Phoenix for you, I promise. Goodbye. I love you.
I think I'm going to go be depressed for awhile.
Off to type up some fanfic now, and hopefully cheer up.
DV
