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Shadow of Victory
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 37 hrs and 19 mins
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Summary
The Mesan Alignment is revealed, and for Honor Harrington and the Manticoran Star Kingdom, this means war!
Unintended Consequences
Sometimes things don't work out exactly as planned.
The Mesan Alignment has a plan - one it's been working on for centuries. A plan to remake the galaxy and genetically improve the human race - its way.
Until recently things have gone pretty much as scheduled, but then the Alignment hit a minor bump in the road called the Star Empire of Manticore. So the Alignment engineered a war between the Solarian League, the biggest and most formidable interstellar power in human history. To help push things along, the Alignment launched a devastating sneak attack that destroyed the Royal Manticoran Navy's industrial infrastructure.
And in order to undercut Manticore's galaxy-wide reputation as a star nation of its word, it launched Operation Janus - a false-flag covert operation to encourage rebellions it knows will fail by promising Manticoran support. The twin purposes are to harden Solarian determination to destroy the Star Empire once and for all and to devastate the Star Empire's reputation with the rest of the galaxy.
But even the best laid plans can have unintended consequences, and one of those consequences in this case may just be a new dawn of freedom for oppressed star nations everywhere.
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- Pawel Pawlowski
- 25-04-19
Pretty good, seriously.
If it was, every other book from Honorverse, narrators score will be 5/5.
But that one... I'm feel sorry for him. All that Polish and slavik words was surely very hard to read properly, and I applause his trying his best to do so.
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- Kindle Customer
- 20-01-17
Makes me want the next book even more!
wonderful! beautiful! why can't he write faster!? oh yes, quality go down...Dan you reality!
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- Ben Moss-Woodward
- 22-09-20
Please use a pronunciation guide
The Narrator really should have used the same pronunciation for names as the other books, but other than that he does a great job and it's a great story
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- Alexander Thieme
- 29-10-21
Tough isten in parts, but still worth it
I really struggled with the polish bits and the overly dramatic pronounciation of the narrator. with a long scene of it right at the beginning I almost quit, it was that difficult to bear. i wonder what benefit David Weber saw in hammering the reader with so many polish words - it might have bean easier to introduce the fact what their local polis name is and then use the english equivalent to save both the reader (and the narrator) the strain.
The story itself is a must, though, for any serious Honorverse fan, and despite being a tad long, worth listening too.
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- William
- 25-06-23
Pointless
This book was all about filling in holes in the backstory. The trouble was that most of it i didn’t want to know. The series wasn’t progressed at all with this book.
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- HantsLady
- 07-02-22
Irritating narrator
Collins narration is grating and irritating. He speaks as though he is exaggerating a speech correction exercise. No “colour” to the narration at all. Pity as other books in the series have been well read by others.
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- Adam
- 05-08-17
Long!
It takes a very long time to get going and is very difficult to keep who is who straight. It is easily the weakest HH book I've experienced, and that goes back 20years. However the last third was good but overall could do better.
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- Mart
- 31-12-16
Not great
This book is very long and doesn't seem to hang together as a novel, just parallels times explored in the main series.
I dont mind long with Weber books and its easier
when its audio but I didn't feel there was enough here.
The Ark Royal series for example, put plenty of action, politics and events ino 12 hours or so., making very slow freight out of telling stuff glossed ov ere r in the main series is probably for fans only
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- R
- 26-02-17
Poor story made worse by poor narration
This book is composed, almost in its entirety, of the sweepings off the cutting room floor from the last three or four books in the series. The story weaves carefully around the major plot points of the series without ever quite making contact. If taken as a stand alone novel then the plot is both tedious and disjointed, without a focused narrative direction.
The narration was poorly paced with frequent poor pronunciation. While I appreciate the effort Kevin Collins made to pronounce the foreign language words, the emphasis he placed upon the polish words was quite jarring and further slowed the reading pace. I ended up listening at 1.25 x speed, as this was the best compromise between improving the pace and the distortion caused by higher speeds.
Overall the poor narration made a poor novel almost unreadable. I persevered to the end but wish I had not bothered.
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- alistair woodba
- 11-10-22
Why
Why chapter one the author refuses to KILL a murdering monster. Chapter two author MURDERS a bus full of children WHY
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