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The Shadow of Saganami

By: David Weber
Narrated by: Jay Snyder
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 The Star Kingdom has a new generation of officers! And this elite group hand-picked and trained by Honor Harrington herself is going to be needed immediately, as their first assignment turns out to be more dangerous than anyone expected.

What was supposed to be a quiet outpost, far from the blazing conflict between the Star Kingdom of Manticore and the People's Republic of Haven has actually been targeted by an unholy alliance between the slaveholders of Manpower, the rival star kingdoms of Mesa and Monica, and the bureaucrats of the Solarian League.

The alliance stands to benefit if the Havenites defeat Manticore, and are preparing for a surprise attack from the rear to divide Manticore's forces, which are already strained nearly to their limits. With their captain, the young Manticoran officers will risk their careers, if not their lives, on an unauthorized mission to expose and counter the threat to their Star Kingdom. Follow their journey as they show what they're made of.

New York Times best-selling author David Weber begins a new series that will be a must-buy for the hundreds of thousands of Honor Harrington fans.

©2005 David Weber (P)2009 Audible, Inc. Adventure Fiction Military Science Fiction Space Opera Royalty

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OK well i love David Weber books and stories so never likely to get less than 5 stars from me. This is no different.
However Having read them all several times before my sight failed i was wary of trying to listen to them. Alyson Johnson's superb voice acting and consistent voicing over several books though converted me. I bought them all.
Then i listened to this one. WHERE IS ALYSON? Jay is a fine reader and good at characterization.. but his voice is too deep to convincingly voice girls The falsetto's grate. Weber's books have far too many girls vital to the plots for such a deep voiced man to voice... and its a problem after hearing Alyson's brilliant convincing different accents for Honor .. Elizabeth...Michelle and then suddenly hear them all sounding like Danny LaRue or Dame Edna
I have other books read by Jay with mainly male characters.. and he is very very good. For Webers books he is a mistake.

Did Jay Snyder do a good job differentiating each of the characters? How?

see above voice too deep for the females

Where has Alyson gone?

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strongly recommend reading this in chronological order (check on wikipedia where it sits). the performance is good and the story is interesting.

Great book if you like the Honour Harrington serie

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David Weber does it again kept me enthralled all the way to the end. Looking forward to the next book.

Great story again

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Great story, but much inclined to agree with the criticisms of the narrator's attempts at female voices - many of them sounded more like children than women.

Inclined to agree

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Anyone who complains about his performance hasn't gone through one of the books narrated by Peter. Exceptional story as always from David Weber I really like this Honorverse.. I think I will keep it.

Jay is a great narrator

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