Review: Fun, but no Honor Harrington.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 27, 2012
This was a good story, pretty much exactly what you'd expect with 1 minor problem. The new ensign gets assigned a ship, something happens and he ends up unexpectedly having to take command and fight the ship out of harms way.  Pretty standard stuff.  The space battles are done pretty well, the tactics are executed well but nothing super special. The technology is explained just enough to not seem like magic.  So no problems so far, if that was it it would probably be a 4 star book for me so I'll go to what I had a problem with.----- Minor maybe spoiler alert?--- just in case you understand.If you have ever been part of a professional military you understand how the chain of command works.  Well in this book after our ensign has to take command of the ship, nearly EVERY single person of the crew want's him to step down and turn control over to someone else, the other ensigns get bitter and give him nothing but problems.  Pretty much every other officer and NCO treats him with complete disrespect even after he's successfully pulled their butts out of 2 or 3 impossible situations.  Now as someone who is military I can promise you if a new officer takes over that's pretty much it he's the officer he's in charge.  Even of the other officers or senior NCO's had a problem with him it would of been handled quietly behind closed doors and professionally.  Almost every time one of his crew spoke to him it made me cringe, and that really took away from the book for me.