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MrZero
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I wonder what the fine print of the Punishment says about puns?
Still, thinking about what I've written , perhaps I'm not being "thanks for the book(s)" enough. (yes, spoilers, we're far enough along that casual book-9 readers wouldn't be looking through the forum on David Weber's own webpage while trying to avoid spoilers)
More than a few bits from the Old Crown conspiracy (Old Lords? did they even have a group name?) were fun. The getaway boat was properly explained, booked, and used. Still, pirates, I wonder how much money there would be to make just sailing along, following Charish warfleets, picking up survivors? How much is a signature worth? The death of Rodriguez (Slash Lizard) had a great speech. I expect a memorial statue with the usual bombs has been planned?
I liked how the war fleshed out the one-off characters. They didn't last very long, but it was a good look at some of the common SH'rs swept up in the war. And how, despite what the (I think it was the army of Shiloe?) suffered previously, Earl of golden hills ended up just the same as everyone else in his army, all at once instead of a long slow travel. Because they had nowhere else to go. And while the war was a little too "rush them!" after a point, even then it was because they'd created a weak spot by getting the COGA front lines to move around, so there's that wonderful perfidious Charision trickery. While that there was a war at all wasn't to everyone's liking "Why don't they just go around the north and go down the river straight to Zion?" they did need a solid finish to it. If you've got what looks like a war of seijns and gun trickery and such, then someone's going to get everyone to believe that the Charishers were too weak a people and an armed force to win the war, which means they couldn't fight back afterwards. Without a solid, provable "We beat you fair and square and kicked you up one side of the street and down the other doing so" then the Charisians couldn't hold the empire together. (which sejin gets to toss around SH versions of pro-Inquisition neo-nazis? What would the tattoos look like?) Anyway, "Arrest him." became a punchline for awhile. If there were movies, that'd end up in the SH-version of Keystone Kops. The completely unexpected "what happened at the prison?" cover-up. I wonder if that would be the SH version of Roswell? "We don't know what happened either, but no-one will believe us." And as for the Group of three plot twist, can something like that still count as a plot twist after being so telegraphed a punch? Despite it being nice to read, I mean. I'll end this because the good parts in a 700 page book could go on for some time.
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"Why do I feel so small and insignificant, Sir?"
"Well you're standing next to me, for one reason." (not the actual line)
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) and, while my OCD lets many things jump out at me the only big issue I saw was when Duke Black Horse was reading the latest dispatches "after midnight" and his valet shows in a surprise visitor who said "good afternoon"
