Review: Pulls the Rug out
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 20, 2013
This book was good, we get what we are promised, a series of battles in the opening stage of a war with the evil communistic bad guys.  The battles were good, the inter-military politics interesting.  The book hung together well and it was nice to see the survivors of the Anelace crew settling into Kite.That said I was really hoping to get to see a lot of back and forth slug fest with the two space empires essentially brawling in the mud in the best Honor Harrington tradition over the next few books.  And while that isn't precluded, two things happened to make me less than optimitic to see that going forward.  First what Admiral Hayes did to the Holloway civilian world and second a 3rd, new, game changing force lurches onto the scene toward the end of the book and has the 'potential' to upset the applecart.In short the author wrote another winner of a book, but he really pulled the wool out from under us in the last 20% of the book or so.  Personally I'd have probably been more happy with the series going forward if he chopped that last fifth of the book but as it is I'm happy to have read this book but a little leary about the future of the series.The Deposed King