The Honor of the Queen by David Weber
This time, the politicians have a new assignment for Honor. In order to combat the expanding People's Republic of Haven (the Peeps), Manticore has decided to work on establishing allies with the neighbors. So, Honor is charged with leading a squadron to Grayson, a planet with a very religious patriarchal society.
Once there, she's supposed to uphold "the honor of the Queen" by accompanying the envoy who happens to be her old mentor from school, Admiral Courvosier. By showing off their technological advances, Manticore hopes to entice Grayson into signing a mutual defense treaty. The Grayson's want to, not only because the Peeps are threatening, but their natural enemies from Masada are slso threatening. And the Faithful from Masada make Grayson's religious views seem downright open and inviting.
When bigots threaten to derail the mission, Honor decides that for the missions sake, she should absent herself for a few weeks. While she is away, however, Admiral Courvosier is killed in an attack from Masada. Overwhelmed by guilt over her mentor's death, surrounded by bigots who think serving in any armed forces is a man's job, threatened with an invasion by religious fanatics from Masada, ordered to leave Grayson by the next senior diplomat, what's Honor going to do?
David Weber's second in the Honor series (I review the first one here) broadens our horizons by taking a more in depth look at Honor's universe. As with the first book, the action is tense and thrilling. Also, this book is an improvement over the first book in it's character development for the good guys. But, having said that, the villains are still just caricatures. That changes in later books as Weber gets a chance to develop more realistic, more human, opposition%2
Once there, she's supposed to uphold "the honor of the Queen" by accompanying the envoy who happens to be her old mentor from school, Admiral Courvosier. By showing off their technological advances, Manticore hopes to entice Grayson into signing a mutual defense treaty. The Grayson's want to, not only because the Peeps are threatening, but their natural enemies from Masada are slso threatening. And the Faithful from Masada make Grayson's religious views seem downright open and inviting.
When bigots threaten to derail the mission, Honor decides that for the missions sake, she should absent herself for a few weeks. While she is away, however, Admiral Courvosier is killed in an attack from Masada. Overwhelmed by guilt over her mentor's death, surrounded by bigots who think serving in any armed forces is a man's job, threatened with an invasion by religious fanatics from Masada, ordered to leave Grayson by the next senior diplomat, what's Honor going to do?
David Weber's second in the Honor series (I review the first one here) broadens our horizons by taking a more in depth look at Honor's universe. As with the first book, the action is tense and thrilling. Also, this book is an improvement over the first book in it's character development for the good guys. But, having said that, the villains are still just caricatures. That changes in later books as Weber gets a chance to develop more realistic, more human, opposition%2
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