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I bought this series earlier and have been saving it for a special time. This is the special time, a few weeks of inactivity, boredom, exhaustion. These books, that I have looked forward to reading for several months are my friends and companions. If I can't sleep or be comfortable this series occupies and entertains me. They are excellent companions.


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To Honor You Call Us Man of War H Paul Honsinger 9781477848890 Books Reviews

As a longtime fan of Horatio Hornblower, Richard Sharp, and all Space Marines and submariner stories everywhere, I have thoroughly enjoyed the freshness but familiar quality of the Universe Honsinger has created. I like the attention to the military detail of the description of the action, and am enjoying the dynamic main character, Max Robicheau. Having grown up on Bayous Lafourche and Terrebonne, and Vermilion, I vouch that of all Honsingers descriptions of South Louisiana/Nouvelle Acadiana’s Cajun culture and language are refreshingly accurate, all the way down to the correct way to make Cajun potato salad. The cultural background lends a delightful piquancy to the multi-culture, multi-species of the future world in the Milky Way galaxy. I hope the author continues to create more volumes in this Universe.
A thoroughly enjoyable space opera with overtones of Age of Sail fiction set in a desperate war against the Krug.

Our main protagonist, Lieut. (soon to be Lieutenant Commander after the first few pages) M. Robichaux is given his first command, a stealth destroyer and pretty much given free license to engage in enemy commerce raiding in neutral territory. How he does this and the obstacles he overcomes keeps the pages turning rapidly and certainly left me avid for a sequel. The short but sharp descriptions of the workings of a space age warship are particularly entertaining. There is also great scope in expanding the intriguing alien encounters.

The authors include a series of acknowledgements at the end of the book and not surprisingly, they wrote that this story was directly inspired by Patrick O'Brian; anyone familiar with O'Brian's work will see the similarities immediately although personally I found Robichaux to be a little cleverer than Aubrey. I did find one or two other hints there as well, with touches of Forrester and Lambdin. Also I am not sure if the name Robichaux is a nod to James Lee Burke.

All things being equal, Book II is being planned for January 2013. In fact, I hope that the authors enjoy writing this series to such an extent that it will run to show the development of the two likeable main protagonists from their first ship to much greater achievements and commands.
Honsinger's book is huge improvement in many ways from sagas such as the Honor Harrington series, though not without its flaws. His demonstration of good leadership of (unavoidably) imperfect soldiers is extraordinary. People are not perfect; they make mistakes; and giving them a reasonable chance to do better is the only realistic or responsible course. David Weber's people are perfect from the start, so his leaders are shallow figureheads.

Both authors have no idea what to do with women or with sexuality, and Honsinger "solves" that problem by leaving women out entirely. They've all been killed by an enemy bio-weapon or else recalled to home worlds to (I assume, based on no explanation from Honsiner) have lots of babies and hence ensure humanity's survival in the next generation.

There's an arithmetic problem, however. If half the women died more than twenty years ago, there shouldn't be so many children (or ANYONE under 20) aboard warships. Those children, just as much as their mothers, are the future of the race. They can't be risked in this way. There's also talk of MANY crew members getting mail from wives, girlfriends, and even BOTH wives and girlfriends. That seems terribly unlikely. Nor does it make sense for other human star systems being neutral in the war, after a horrific genocide like that.

Still, it's a big improvement over most of the genre.
This (and the sequel) is a rerelease of the author's previously self published book, now published by . For a novel written by a new author, Mr. Honsinger tells a tight, well paced, and engaging story. This version is a bit more polished than the previous, and on the second pass, it's even better than the last version.

Humanity is fighting a war and barely holding on. Max gets promoted to Captain a destroyer with some serious problems. Morale, training, readiness, all in the toilet. And he has to lead the crew to fix it if he wants them to live. In real life, I've walked into a command that was like this (not quite this bad, but close) so this story hits close to home. It took a lot of effort by all hands to turn it around, but like anything in the military, change starts at the top. Max pulls together his new senior officers and they get to work fixing this broken crew.

The author tells a believable tale, made more so by his obvious dedication to research and history. The books is laced with references to modern and historical cultural, space, and military history. The mechanic of bringing midshipmen on as boys, and training them through adulthood, plus other facets of the bygone days of sail, was a nice touch and blended well with the submarine like style of combat. If space combat happens, I'm convinced it will be like this.

If you buy this, and you should, go ahead and grab the second one at the same time. You won't be able to put it down. Can't wait for the third installment.
I bought this series earlier and have been saving it for a special time. This is the special time, a few weeks of inactivity, boredom, exhaustion. These books, that I have looked forward to reading for several months are my friends and companions. If I can't sleep or be comfortable this series occupies and entertains me. They are excellent companions.