Thread: Hey!! Let's get some action going! What are we reading?
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Old 04-10-2019, 12:34 PM   #28213
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Originally Posted by Tarana View Post
Just an FYI on the Honor Harrington book - there is a LOT of introductory stuff for the series in that first book. I nearly gave it up 1/2 through but the original recommender told me to just keep going - and there it was...Action!!
That’s pretty standard for the series, though. The first big chunk of the book assembles the machine, and then the last chunk turns it on in the form of a massive space battle or two. Not that I object, and it’s not a bad formula, just saying that the structure is not anomalous.

Speaking of the Honorverse, I recently finished the last two Honor-era books (Shadow of Victory and Uncompromising Honor), then moved on to the first two “Manticore Ascendant” 400-years-ago prequels (A Call to Duty and A Call to Arms). Those moved me to indulge in a rare full-price purchase, to pick up the third in that series: A Call to Vengeance.

I’ll most likely wait until next week to start that one, as I’m presently using Comcast’s Watchathon Week to indulge in some movies I don’t normally have access to.
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