A review by roxanamalinachirila
Tales of Honor Volume 1: On Basilisk Station by Matt Hawkins, David Weber
3.0
The art was lovely, the story was far from amazing.
We're assured that Honor is a genius space commander, respected all across the galaxy, things like that. She's been captured by the enemy, sentenced to death, trapped in sensory deprivation and remembering the beginnings of her career and the people she had under her command.
Let me put it this way: if I put a book down in the middle and forget I was reading it, the plot and world-building didn't really catch me. Which is exactly what happened with Tales of Honor Volume 1. Luckily, at one point I turned on the tablet again to read another series and remember I'd left this volume off midway.
Things happened after the middle of the book. I'm sure they were quite clever. Unfortunately, the feel of that cleverness doesn't quite get across, and, even though Honor tells us she came to feel really close to some of the people on the spaceship, the reader has very little reason to feel the same.
We're assured that Honor is a genius space commander, respected all across the galaxy, things like that. She's been captured by the enemy, sentenced to death, trapped in sensory deprivation and remembering the beginnings of her career and the people she had under her command.
Let me put it this way: if I put a book down in the middle and forget I was reading it, the plot and world-building didn't really catch me. Which is exactly what happened with Tales of Honor Volume 1. Luckily, at one point I turned on the tablet again to read another series and remember I'd left this volume off midway.
Things happened after the middle of the book. I'm sure they were quite clever. Unfortunately, the feel of that cleverness doesn't quite get across, and, even though Honor tells us she came to feel really close to some of the people on the spaceship, the reader has very little reason to feel the same.