The Honor of the Queen

Honor Harrington Deals With Male Chauvinism could be the title of this book, and that's not necessarily a bad thing, but it's not space battles. I'm not the first to point out that this series is best when describing space battles. The more it strays from that, the less interesting it tends to get. The first book was mostly space battles, the rest of the series increasingly deals with politics, which simply aren't as interesting from this author.

Weber's writing did improve a little bit since writing On Basilisk Station. However, while the infodumping has lessened, the main flaws remain: uneven writing, Mary Sue, viewpoint jumping. The last has even gone worse!
And then there are the clichés. Oh the agony of cliché.

A backwards tech-fearing planet (well, two) of old "Texas" style women hating people.
A mutiny. Please sci-fi space opera writers: stop it with the mutinies already! Find a better plotdevice, m'kay.
A deus ex machina to save the battle.

Still, the story was engaging, even though it felt a bit stale. Maybe I shouldn't read so much sci-fi space opera in succession.

Kinda like an action film I felt. Lots of fun explosions, political tension which is good stuff. Didn't really emotionally connect with the characters though, I mean, you could have killed off the whole crew of the ship and I wouldn't really care.

Read it on the Kindle, stayed up till 3:30am to finish it. If you like semi-hard military sci-fi, you'll enjoy this.

Awesome read! Great follow up to the first.