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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Now onto the third in David Weber's new SF series - "By Heresies Distressed".
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I enjoyed this one too. Although the weird spelling of the names does get a bit tiresome. Hmmm..... if I ever re-read them, I'm tempted to do a mass search and replace on the names.
I do worry a little about the omniscient view we have in the story, but that's very similar to other David Weber series - we get to see what both sides are saying and doing. Interesting hints about possible happenings in the next volume.
I was a bit disappointed with the formatting of the Mobipocket version. The first letter in each chapter appeared on a line on its own, and there were some words split into syllables (presumably from left-over soft hyphens somehow converted to spaces). Considering that they're asking a RRP of $27.99, this is not acceptable. It's obvious that no-one had proof-read the Mobipocket version at all. (I didn't pay $27.99 of course - only about $7.14 including micropay rebates. Still about twice my average book cost.)
Now onto the next in Eric Flint's 1632 series - 1635: The Tangled Web, not by Eric Flint but by Virginia DeMarce. More a collection of stories and a novella than a complete novel. The 1632 series aren't stand-alone. Don't read this one first!