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Honorverse
Aug. 3rd, 2007 10:49 amHonor Harrington was very interesting in the first novel. The second and third weren't bad either. You know... I loved the first few novels of the series. I really did.
And then she became this terrible bitch and it's not even a very good bitch. I can't believe how much I dislike her now. From Ashes of Victory (the ninth book in the series) to the current one, At All Costs (the eleventh), it's clear to me that the Honor Harrington from books 1-3 is no longer in existence. And I really freaking want to throttle her.
If you read the titles in sequence and get to the last three, you'll know exactly what I mean. So many things she disliked and felt uncomfortable with in the first part has come back and become her tools, her 'useful' things that she can pull out whenever something makes her unhappy. One chapter particularly steamed me up like nothing. An investigator - competent, effective, without fault - gives a dissenting opinion to her own and while nominally she's right (oh, we know she's right because Weber (the author) tells us she's right), she immediately fires him because he doesn't agree with her. No attempt to calmly change his mind, no attempt to try to reason it out. She uses her own grief as an excuse to assign someone she knows will give the answer she wants and to me, that is just utterly unforgivable. She thinks to herself that she has the rank and right and she throws out all her titles and JUST HOW IS THAT different from the people she hated for doing that exact same thing?
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This just makes me so mad, because I seriously loved this series! She was so cool in book 1, strong and yet... she was also unsure of herself at times. She worked hard to do what she needed to do, and she questioned her actions. Compared to book 1, the later books are like a squalling newborn throwing a temper tantrum.
*weeps* This was a really good series...
And then she became this terrible bitch and it's not even a very good bitch. I can't believe how much I dislike her now. From Ashes of Victory (the ninth book in the series) to the current one, At All Costs (the eleventh), it's clear to me that the Honor Harrington from books 1-3 is no longer in existence. And I really freaking want to throttle her.
If you read the titles in sequence and get to the last three, you'll know exactly what I mean. So many things she disliked and felt uncomfortable with in the first part has come back and become her tools, her 'useful' things that she can pull out whenever something makes her unhappy. One chapter particularly steamed me up like nothing. An investigator - competent, effective, without fault - gives a dissenting opinion to her own and while nominally she's right (oh, we know she's right because Weber (the author) tells us she's right), she immediately fires him because he doesn't agree with her. No attempt to calmly change his mind, no attempt to try to reason it out. She uses her own grief as an excuse to assign someone she knows will give the answer she wants and to me, that is just utterly unforgivable. She thinks to herself that she has the rank and right and she throws out all her titles and JUST HOW IS THAT different from the people she hated for doing that exact same thing?
ARJEOINFOEI:R#(JFEWRJI:OEJFIJIRO
This just makes me so mad, because I seriously loved this series! She was so cool in book 1, strong and yet... she was also unsure of herself at times. She worked hard to do what she needed to do, and she questioned her actions. Compared to book 1, the later books are like a squalling newborn throwing a temper tantrum.
*weeps* This was a really good series...
