Actually 1.5 stars out of 5, not 2. But I'll round it up, hoping that the sequel will be better. If not, well, too bad.

The problem with this book? Nothing happens. Not really. Yes there is a war, and another battle. Weber is good at writing space battles. But it is very repetitive. A battle as a story climax, every book, no. That's getting old.
We get some half-assed romance in here, making us care about some redshirt who will probably die in one of the next books, so we never really get to know him. There's another old mentor/protector/whatever dude who likes Honor and gets thrashed during that final battle. Weber sucks at writing characters. They are flat and one-dimensional. There is no development, nothing.
A battle can be beautifully written, but if your reader doesn't care about the characters in that battle, what's the point?

I'll read one more book in this series. Not straight away, maybe I've been reading too much sci-fi lately and have become jaded. So I'll take a short break, then read the next book. If that one too falls flat, well, then it's goodbye Honor Harrington. Then that series is just not for me.