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Originally Posted by Solicitous
Then again I started On Basilisk Station some time ago, and got all the series thus far ready to read. Got half way through Honor of the Queen, not sure if I will finish it but I did feel compelled to get them all. Part of me also doesn't want to start a series and down the track have trouble getting hold of the books, or the series becomes unfinished (think GRRM....how long???).
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Well, the Honorverse series has its ups and downs and different people reach their tolerance limits at different points. (I'm willingly sticking with it because I *like* large-scale space opera.)
The series has two clean breakpoints, so far; SHORT VICTORIOUS WAR marks the end of the "young Honor" arc and ASHES OF VICTORY the end of the relatively narrow focus books, with relatively clear endings.
If you go with WAR OF HONOR and beyond you are committing to a very complex story with at least three separate multivolume narratives and at least six sets of protagonists in at least three theaters of operation. Where earlier novels revolved around relatively small battles and skirmishes, the latter books are leading up to a long galaxy-wide epochal war. More plot-driven (pun intended) than character-driven. And openended/cliffhanger endings.
Not the same kind of story at all yet it is a single series that does hold together as a single epic.