It fit well with the series. A few twists and turns, a new hero, and the adventure continues.

Let me first say I have immense respect for DW. I love his work and have read nearly everything he's published in English. The series (at least in broad outline) is clearly based upon his previous works and I loved those. In this case, instead of space fleets and hyper limits you have human wars with old technology and DW's knowledge of history including infantry and Calvary tactics is extensive. However, I felt like I was reading Robert Jordan ... around book 8 where things slowed down so much I got bored. I can see this series is to be his ULTIMATE series combing world-building with mans eventual return to space. So, while the series may ultimately be the pinnacle of his life's work, (I hope so) this book was so much meat it lacked flavor and variety. For me this missed the mark. I wish Mr Weber the best and I will hang in on this series but at least for me this book was often painful to read.

I never imagined such a great could be stretched so thin across so many novels such that each one contains but a tiny nugget of actual content and hundreds upon hundreds of pages of procrastination in between. The overarching story is great, the characters are well thought out and leave you either rooting in their corner or wishing their very demise at every turn of the page. My only wish is that it didn't take so many pages to accomplish so little in the story line. If you look back across the series of novels, each successive one accomplishes less and less as far as moving the story along and yet each one continues to grow in length (or is that perhaps my imagination as I dread trudging through another few hundred pages of almost nothing happening?) We're still faithfully buying the novels...please have the courtesy to provide some content within them.

As usual, Weber once again pulls his heroes chestnuts out of the fire. While I do understand the tactical doctrine that makes up for the superiority of the ICA and RSA, I believe Mr. Weber overlooked a few minor inconsistencies between this book and his previous one. The Grimm setting that he left us with in his last book seems to have been overlooked in this entire story. This is why I gave his book only 4 out of 5 stars. Overall, this is another superb example of Mr. Webers work.

I’ve been reading this authors books for many years, and i’ve read and reread all of his previous books in the Safehold series, and all of the novels in his previous, and very different, Honor Harrington series. I fully expect this new novel to also be outstanding.