A review by brucehoward
At the Sign of Triumph: A Novel in the Safehold Series by David Weber
4.0
I didn’t bother reviewing the others in this series; Goodreads really needs a mechanism for reviewing books in a series as a whole - reviewing individual books, particularly in a series as long (and unfortunately, at times, tedious ) as this is not practical.
The long and the short of it...great idea, very interesting first novel, occasionally clever but way to slowly developed over far to many novels.
By the time the 3rd or 4th book came out, I was spending more time waiting for the obvious oncoming plot twists to fully develop just so I could find out how the story ends.
I really loved the premise but feel quite certain the final 3-4 books could have been more usefully repurposed to developing what happens after the bad guys on Safehold are defeated and on how humanity take on what forced it to shelter on Safehold in the first place.
This kind of left me feeling cheated in the end, sigh.
Anyhoo, good first book, mostly reasonable closing of arcs on Safehold modular my aforementioned complaints above.
The long and the short of it...great idea, very interesting first novel, occasionally clever but way to slowly developed over far to many novels.
By the time the 3rd or 4th book came out, I was spending more time waiting for the obvious oncoming plot twists to fully develop just so I could find out how the story ends.
I really loved the premise but feel quite certain the final 3-4 books could have been more usefully repurposed to developing what happens after the bad guys on Safehold are defeated and on how humanity take on what forced it to shelter on Safehold in the first place.
This kind of left me feeling cheated in the end, sigh.
Anyhoo, good first book, mostly reasonable closing of arcs on Safehold modular my aforementioned complaints above.