To End in Fire

The Honor Harrington Series: Crown of Slaves Saga, Book 4

De: David Weber, Eric Flint

Narrado por: Peter Larkin

The Crown of Slaves saga continues. Adventure and intrigue in Honor Harrington’s Star Kingdom from New York Times best-selling authors David Weber and Eric Flint.

The Solarian League lies in defeat, crushed by the Grand Alliance of Manticore, Haven, and Grayson.

Obedient to the Alliance's surrender demands, the League is writing a new Constitution, to prevent the reemergence of out-of-control bureaucrats, like the "Mandarins" who led it to disaster. Frontier Security has been disbanded, the outer worlds have regained control of their own economic destinies, and multiple star systems will soon secede from the League entirely.

Yet the League is—and will remain—the largest, most economically powerful human star nation in existence, and despite the overwhelming evidence that their unelected political leaders were the driving force behind the war, many League citizens deeply resent the fashion in which their star nation—the Solarian League—has been humbled. And those who most resent the Grand Alliance continue to blame Manticore for the nuclear bombardment of the planet Mesa after its surrender. They refuse to accept that the League—and the members of the Grand Alliance—could have been manipulated by a deeply hidden interstellar conspiracy called the Mesan Alignment. The Alignment is only an invention of the Grand Alliance, no more than a mask, a cover, for its own horrific Eridani Violations.

Those Solarians will never accept the war guilt of the League, because they know the Grand Alliance was just as bad. Because they deeply resent the way in which the Grand Alliance pretends to be the innocent "good guys." And in the fullness of time, those Solarians will seek vengeance upon their enemies.

Not all Solarians feel that way, but even some of those who accept that there was an interstellar conspiracy cherish doubts about its origins. But it is still out there, and now defeated Solarians and agents of the victorious Alliance must join forces to find it. Even if they don't believe in it, it believes in them.

They must find it and identify it, to prove to revanchist Solarians that there was a conspiracy.

And they must find it and destroy it to end its evil once and for all.

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©2021 Words of Weber, Inc. & Eric Flint (P)2022 Audible, Inc.

Fantastic story! Awkward Narration Deviations.

This is an incredibly exciting continuation of the series and answers so many questions that I have had on what happens next with the Sol System.

I was disappointed with the choice in narration to alter name pronunciations as well as inject new accents for characters that haven’t been present in the last three books.

wraps up Honor Harrington series

superb conclusion of Honor Harrington series
It wraps up the destiny of the Alignment,
and shows the basis of Manticore's
superior moral structure And reconclies
the enemy planets.

Was expecting better

Don’t get me wrong the book was fine but really was expecting more. Side characters and stories were introduced and seemingly abandon. Many threads left open and unresolved and the last battle was silly in how tactics were not anticipated by the GA. Anyway not sure if there will be more books but the story is far from resolved.

A good conclusion

I disliked the narrator but was glad to finally reach a conclusion in the main story

great story a little to much filler.

This was a good story that I enjoyed. At times the filler information, many names, many places and details about warfare bogged me down and made me sleepy. It was great to have Honor Harrington back in action. I definitely enjoyed that part. overall it continues the saga wonderfully.

Excellent story !

The quality of this series is unsurpassed , In-depth and scope , sci-fi at its best .

An ever expanding world.

A great story in an enthralling web in a world with a history you could believe happened. Good character interactions from well rounded characters flaws and all. All in all this is my go to sci-fi literary series. Star Wars and Star Trek have their niches in the pantheon of science fiction but Mr. Weber has given us a military sci-fi that neither giant can equal. Start "On Basilisk Station" and join the legion of readers through the joy and tears, successes and failures of Honor Harrington and family.

Great wrap-up as far as the wrap-up goes.

Ties together many threads from multiple books. Well executed. As always some variations in pronunciations.

Slow to start but worth the effort.

With the delays inherent in a series this long it was difficult to recall the pervious details of the story. The broad strokes are clear but the story starts with minor plot points and builds or combines them to reach the end. It does bring the main plot to a convenient ending. I now know I will have to wait years fore the next installment. I shudder to think how much of the story line I will lose in that time.

Narrator was a poor fit

The new reader either didn't care or didn't read any of the previous books because he did not match anyone to their descriptions.

It was obvious that he used his stock voices and just matched them willy-nilly to characters. This caused me to actually read about half of the novel so I wouldn't have to listen to him mangle the characters.

The story wasn't bad overall, but it continues to suffer from Villain syndrome in that the bad guys,known throughout the series for their expertise in the bioscience, suddenly whip out technologies equal to or superior to Manticore.

I think Mr Weber feels obligated to finish the series, but wrote himself into a corner. This is especially true with his writing for Harrington, as most of those passages feel forced.

The ending is so jarring that I went and checked to ensure the book had completely downloaded.

TLDR - It is OK, but not as good as earlier works.