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The Shadow of Saganami (Honorverse: Saganami, Bk 1)
The Shadow of Saganami - Honorverse: Saganami, Bk 1
Author: David Weber
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 ...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9781416509295
ISBN-10: 1416509291
Publication Date: 9/6/2005
Pages: 960
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  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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3.9 stars, based on 51 ratings
Publisher: Baen
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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reviewed The Shadow of Saganami (Honorverse: Saganami, Bk 1) on + 1568 more book reviews
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Outstanding blend of military/technical writing balanced by superb character development and an excellent degree of human drama. Very highly recommended.
The Star Kingdom of Manticore is once again at war with the Republic of Haven after a stunning sneak attack. The graduating class from Saganami Island, the Royal Manticorean Navy's academy, are going straight from the classroom to the blazing reality of all-out war---except for the midshipmen assigned to the heavy cruiser HMS Hexapuma, that is. THEY are being assigned to the Talbott Cluster, an out of the way backwater. The most they can look forward to is the capture of the occasional pirate cruiser and the boring duty of supporting the Cluster's peaceful integration with the Star Kingdom at the freely expressed will of eighty percent of the Cluster's citizens. With a captain who may have seen too much of war and a station commander who isn't precisely noted for his brilliant and insightful command style, it isn't exactly what the students of Honor Harrington expected.
But things aren't always precisely what they appear to be . . .
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gmartin64 avatar reviewed The Shadow of Saganami (Honorverse: Saganami, Bk 1) on + 14 more book reviews
Good book.. was hard to read as it was written after most of the others.
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Nice prequel to At All Costs in the Honor Harrington series, which is comparable in many ways to the Horatio Hornblower series. Typical with Weber's stuff the plot can bog down in occaisional excessive dialogue, but makes up for it in the naval battle sequences and character development.


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