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This stand-alone novel in the best-selling Valdemar series tells the story of Alberich...
When Alberich took a stand for what he believed in-and defected-he was chosen by one of the magical Companion horses...to serve the queen of Valdemar.
Customer Reviews:
It was a'right.......2007-07-31
Exile's honor is the tale of weapon's master Albrecht. In later books he is the scourge of young Heralds (who are sort of PC Jedi-Knight-esque Police force sanctioned by the Queen). In this novel Albrecht, (nearly burned alive in his own country), escapes with the help of his horse Silver who turns out to be a Companion. (Companions are basically re-cycled heralds in horse form).
Albrecht was a hard character to like. Lackey conveys his foreigness by having him speak like yoda (Sample) : "This rumor- I hope it false proves." Which was really destracting. Second, Albrecht seems to be a bit of a mary-sue. He can out-fight most Heralds and he manages to skip the training other heralds go through (by getting private lessons)AND doesn't even have to dress like them. The reason given- that Albrecht is older and his students would lose respect for him if he was seen taking classes with other students didn't wash with me. Are you kidding me? Albrecht is so anti-social he NEEDS to associate with others not be seperated. I seriously doubt anyone taking a class with him would pick on him afterward for very long.
Okay. Finally, how old is he supposed to be? The author never says but the man on the cover certainly looks in his 30's. My inability to pinpoint his age bugged me. I was never clear if I was dealing with a young adult or a...Middle-aged guy.
Overall, this novel started okay and was gripping enough until the inclusion of the character Myste. Then I really found my eyes rolling. Myste is Lackey's avatar, down to the glasses and the build was irritating.
Overall the novel was great at the beginning but weakened towards the final third.
3 Stars. Average.
The Best of Misty's work - so far!.......2005-07-28
I have read and re-read Exile's Honor and still am enthralled.
I agree that it is a bit different than some of her other work, but I really like it! There is a trend in some of her Valdemar books (Brightly Burning, Take a Thief, Exile's Honor, and Exile's Valor) that I really like. Instead of the huge, sweeping epic, these are people centered; and I like them!
Thanx, Misty! Well done!
mellodramatic.......2005-04-07
"Exile's Honor" is enjoyable and entertaining. The word that best describes "Exile's Honor" is mellodramatic. The main character spends a lot of time feeling sorry for himself, exagerating his problems, basking in the sympathy of friends, and boasting. This is quite fun if you are in the mood.
The plot and setting and personalities are similar to all of Mercedes' other books: her main characters are powerful & highly skilled, have problems with teasing & not fitting in, receive unquestioning affection from a mystic friend, and have casual sex. The setting is a magical / fantasy variant of the middle ages.
Only good when considered with the rest of the series.......2005-02-17
Alberich of Karse was a hard man made harder by the ever-present threat of a knife in the back from jealous military subordinates, and by the deadly and ever-present need to keep secret his sporadically appearing power of foresight. All powers in Karse that did not come from the temples of Vakandis Sun-god were witch powers and the only fate that the sun priests allowed for witches was death in flames. Little did he know that his destiny, with a little help from a suspiciously intelligent stallion, would take him from his land and people, whom he had vowed to protect, and into the land of the feared witch-riders and demon-horses of Valdemar. Fate had decreed that there was another life that Alberich was to shield on his path to becoming the man known as Herald Alberich.
Valdemar is brought to life once again through this tale of Alberich and his exile from Karse. For the first time, a grown man from Karse is brought to the ranks of the Heralds of Valdemar, to battle fears and mistrust for and from those that he must join, to do battle with an entire nation of mercenaries that Karse has hired to put an end to their greatest enemy.
The main problem with the book, that I think even some true fans of Valdemar will find themselves annoyed with, is the way Mercedes writes for Alberich's Karshian accent. While people have compared his speech with various other annoying speakers of entertainment history, I found the inconsistency in Mercedes writing of his speech the most annoying thing about it. Within a few compound sentences, she makes the mistake of putting the verb at the end of one part of the sentence and in the middle of the other part. Maybe I'm a bit overly critical, but these did distract me from the story since they just sounded a bit wrong when I read them.
Alberich is the focus of this third book of the Valdemar. With no other seeming purpose, this book dedicates itself to being a prequel for the characters and immediate history of the three books of Valdemar that preceded it. I love the minimalism of Alberich, and his frustration at the extravagant opinions many people carry around. I equally enjoy the irony of that frustration that results from his, sometimes less than open-minded, refusal of some concepts and ideas as a because of a, for the most part, HIGHLY admirable but sometimes obsessive view of personal honor. However, if you have not read the preceding books, or didn't like them, for some reason that I cannot imagine, you will only find this book a passable piece of pulp fantasy. If you have already read this book and are wondering why it isn't what you expected from Lackey, go ahead and finish its sequel EXILES VALOR, then read the Heralds of Valdemar Trilogy. As recommended by shel99, this book is not at its best if you read it as a stand-alone. If you do read it as a stand-alone, and judge it wanting, you could very well end in doing yourself a disservice by missing out on the rest of the story.
EXILES HONOR, if you have read and enjoyed the Valdemar Trilogy, should be read. The background you receive concerning certain characters will make their lives shine all the brighter in your memory.
Valdemar VS Karse.......2004-11-25
The story fills in some gaps of information about Valdemar's past. It is a well written book. There is quite a bit of war in the book. It is different than some earlier books from this series in the way it is written. There is less romance in it than others. This is not a bad thing but it does need pointing out. It is a good book. It is just not Lackey's best work.
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Not Free SF Reader.......2007-09-03
Despite being a naval officer, Honor Harrington is now playing the role
of a Baroness, basically, on the planet of Grayson. After the death of
her boyfriend in the previous book, she is working on the ground.
Yet another conflict looms, and she is commissioned as an admiral for the fleet of her current planet of residence.
Honor Harrington vol. 5 - Honor becomes an admiral in the Grayson navy.......2007-07-22
"Flag in Exile" is the fifth book in a wonderful space opera series set some three thousand years in the future and featuring David Weber's best fictional heroine, "Honor Harrington."
These books are best read in sequence and I strongly recommend that you start with "On Basilisk Station" which is the first one.
The Honor Harrington stories are replete with parallels to the time of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. In particular, the Royal Manticoran Navy in which the heroine is a captain is clearly based on the Royal Navy at the time of Nelson. (In this book she finds herself seconded to serve as an admiral in the navy of Manticore's ally, Grayson.)
The technology of space travel and naval warfare in the Honor Harrington stories has been written so as to impose tactical and strategic constraints on space navy officers similar to those which the technology of fighting sail imposed on wet navy officers two hundred years ago. Similarly the galactic situation in the novels contains many similarities to the strategic and political situation in European history in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
This seems to be quite deliberate: many thinly veiled (and amusing) hints in the books indicate that they are to some extent a tribute to C.S. Forester, while the main heroine of the books, Honor Harrington, appears to owe more than just her initials to C.S. Forester's character "Horatio Hornblower."
In the earlier book, "The Short Victorious War", Honor's home nation of Manticore, and their allies, were attacked by the People's Republic of Haven or "Peeps" - an agressive superpower which has been gradually conquering the small nations on its borders in bitesize chunks.
Following a coup in the People's Republic after their first round of attacks were not successful, Haven is now run by a "Committee of Public Safety" headed by one Rob S. Pierre, which has imposed a reign of terror. However, the new Peep government is just as committed to the war as the old one was.
Weber clearly means the reader to understand that Haven represents Revolutionary France. Early in this book, the Grayson High Admiral prsents a report to his head of state which concludes that "this is going to be a long, long war unless one side or the other completely screws up" and "this war isn't about territory any more. It's become a war for survival; someone - either the Kingdom of Manticore and its allies, including us, or the People's Republic of Haven - is going down this time, Your Grace. For good."
At the start of this book, Honor Harrington has been relieved of command of HMS Nike and put on half-pay after the fighting two controversial duels. So she has returned to Grayson where she is now a "steadholder" e.g. one of the most powerful people on the planet.
Up to this point in the series, Weber has appeared to show disdain and even contempt for politicians, but now that his heroine has become one, she has to think through the decisions she takes from that very different perspective. From this book onwards in the series, the way that political needs affect military objectives begins to be considered in a far more realistic and less oversimplified way.
However, Grayson doesn't just need Honor as a political leader: they desperately need her naval experience, so they ask her to take command of a squadron of superdreadnaughts.
More traditionalist elements on Grayson are horrified at the idea of a female steadholder, so Honor has to deal with some very nasty tactics, including a horrible act of terorism. Honor has to defend against enemies both within and without.
There is an author's note in my copy (September 1995) explaining that the original manuscript was completed in October 1994. Between the time it was finished and the novel's publication came the Oaklahoma bombing, an act Weber describes as "even more despicable than my fictional villains." He adds "That we cannot allow those actus to go unpunished or extend to those who commit them any shred of respect, whatever the "cause" which motivated them, is a lesson the civilised human community must teach itself."
At the time of writing there are thirteen full length novels and four short story collections in the "Honorverse" as the fictional galaxy in which these stories are set is sometimes known. The main series which tells the story of Honor Harrington herself currently runs to eleven novels; in order these are
On Basilisk Station
The Honor of the Queen
The Short Victorious War
Field of Dishonour
Flag in Exile
Honor among Enemies
In Enemy Hands
Echoes of Honor
Ashes of Victory
War of Honor
At All Costs
The four collections of short stories set in the same universe, not all of which feature Honor Harrington herself, are
More Than Honor
Worlds of Honor
Worlds of Honor III: Changer of Worlds
Worlds of Honor IV: The Service of the Sword
The two spin-off novels are "Crown of Slaves" (with Eric Flint) which is a story of espionage and intrigue featuring a number of characters first introduced in earlier Honor Harrington novels or "Honorverse" short story collections, and "The Shadow of Saganami" which is a kind of "next generation" novel featuring a number of younger officers in the navies of Manticore and her ally Grayson.
For amusement, if you want to try to look for the parallels to nations and individuals from the French revolutionary period and the Hornblower books, one possible translation would be:
People's Republic of Haven = France
Star Kingdom of Manticore = Great Britain
Gryphon = Scotland
Grayson = Portugal
Prime Minister Alan Summervale = Pitt the Younger
Hamish Alexander, later Earl White Haven = Admiral Edward Pellew
Honor Harrington = Horatio Hornblower
Alistair McKeon = William Bush
Crown loyalists and Centrists = Tory supporters of Pitt
Conservative Association = isolationist/hardline High Tories
New Kiev Liberals = Whig Oligarchists
Progressives and traditional liberals = Whig radicals
Legislaturist former rulers of Haven = Bourbon monarchy and French nobles
Rob S. Pierre = Robespierre
Committee of Public Safety = Committee of Public Safety
Anderman Empire = Kingdom of Prussia
Silesia = Poland
Solarian republic = United States of America
Wall of Battle = Line of Battle
Ship of the Wall = Ship of the Line
Battleship = "4th rate" sailing warship (in each case too small to form part of the main force in a fleet action, but powerful enough to defeat anything else smaller than a ship of the line/wall.)
Battlecruiser = frigate (5th rate)
Cruisers and destroyers = 6th rate and smaller warships
Honor In Exile.......2007-06-12
Fifth book of the Honor Harrington Series. If you like stories that last longer than one book, you will like this series. In book five, Honor has retired to her new holding on planet Grayson where her presence is challenged by certain upholders of the male status quo. How she establishes herself there in the face of adversity is the theme of this book. It is the other half of the life she is making. The first half is, of course, her identity as an officer in the Manticore Navy. These two themes interweave throughout the series and produce a drama of war and peace, social change, politics, and personal challenge that is absorbing and interesting. Weber's characters are out of this world, too. Put all that together and you have one terrific story and many pleasant hours of reading.
Good series.......2006-09-22
I truly enjoy this entire series. I have unfortunately had to read a few books out of order but I love everyone I read.
An the Adventure Continues.......2006-02-26
I am huge fan of David Weber. This is the 3rd copy of this book that I have bought as I re-read the series often enough paperbacks eventually start to fall apart in my hands. #5 keeps up the high octane pace and give a reader a different cultural point of view in the Honorverse.
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In a departure from her nationally bestselling Highland Lord series, Karen Ranney brings us another emotionally intense and passionate story that will speak to her fans.
When Adam Moncrief, Colonel of the Highland Scots Fusiliers, agrees to write a letter to Catherine Dunnan, one of his officers' wives, a forbidden correspondence develops and he soon becomes fascinated with her even though Catherine thinks the letters come from her husband, Harry Dunnan. Although Adam stops writing after Harry is killed, a year after his last letter he still can't forget her.Then when he unexpectedly inherits the title of the Duke of Lymond, Adam decides the timing is perfect to pay a visit to the now single and available Catherine.What he finds, however, is not the charming, spunky woman he knew from her letters, but a woman stricken by grief, drugged by laudanum and in fear for her life. In order to protect her, Adam marries Catherine, hoping that despite her seemingly fragile state, he will once again discover the woman he fell in love with.
Customer Reviews:
Smartly done but can still smooth out the rough edges of life..........2006-06-18
It just stinks how we all get stings and scrapes from the dummies and debris life tosses our way. Every now and then it's great to retire from the field of life's battles for just a moment and sink into a great story. The male lead is just right--with his major flaw of being a busybody worked in perfectly to slowly know and appreciate the female lead. The well understood cultural ideal of ..."too whom much is given much is expected"
flows through the entire story making actions easily understood and reasonable. The sensuality is lovely; set within the confines of a marriage of convenience that....changes/grows?? It's simply too good to give more away other than grab this book and some special time for yourself. Oh and wipe that silly grin off your face...afterall real life is not quite this good.
This Is How Powerful Love Can & Should Be..........2006-03-06
This is the first book by Karen Ranney that I have read. I am always looking for a new and talented author to add to my favorites list. I was really pleased after finishing "Till Next We Meet" as it contained all the elements I select books to read, things such as: passion, intensity, deep character development, an entertaining plot and sizzling love scenes and true emotion by hero and heroine by the books end. This book had it all.
A few things I found the most compelling in this story were:
1) How the book focused heavily on the letters written between heroine Catherine and her husband Harry (or so she thought) while he was away in North America doing military work. The letters were passionate and deep and beautiful. You could tell the two were opening up their hearts and minds fully to the other during their time writing to one another. A couple who barely knew one another after their marriage changed with long time correspondence to a couple who were soul mates by the time the letters ended. This sharing of their letters with the reader was a nice touch and was definitely unique and refreshing in a love story.
2) I liked how realistic Captain Moncrief/The Duke of Lymond our hero's emotions were. He was oozing loneliness from his childhood and adult life and the letters he secretly penned to Catherine opened up his heart and mind in ways he never believed. He was a strong man - made so by the ups and downs of life. Love made him complete. He truly adored Catherine from afar via her letters to him and his to her. I especially enjoyed his "honest" reaction to meeting her the first time: she was gaunt, pale, bed ridden, high on laudanum and had stringy brown hair and empty brown eyes - she was not the beauty he pictured in his mind. She was not the perfect woman from his letters and he wanted to be gone from her quickly thinking he lost his mind to dream up a woman that clearly didn't exist from a years worth of correspondence. I liked this touch by the author - it made Moncrief a very much a real man. For once...she wasn't the perfect princess of every man's fantasy land. The dream Moncrief had created simply didn't exist. Fortunately...as the book went on, the real Catherine re-emerged from the fog of pain, drugs and loss and she became greater than any dream Moncrief could ever imagine. She became again everything he ever wanted but, didn't think he would find. Moncrief is truly a great hero. He was not a rake, rogue, scoundrel, gambler, womanizer or debaucher of young gals. He was truly what a man should be when you hear the word, "hero". Sigh...
3) The love scenes between Catherine and Moncrief were wonderful. I liked how she didn't want to be intimate with him in the beginning because she couldn't let go of the past and her late husband but, Moncrief very wisely played with her mind more than her body and that caused interest and attraction to begin. Once they did get together, the fireworks flew like the fourth of July. The scenes were tastefully written, powerful and believable. I especially liked how KR made clear that Moncrief almost loved her more than he desired her and it showed in his gentle, kind and giving ways. That is the true test of a man's feelings - when it surpasses the sexual. Catherine took some time to heal and learn that she needed to give back all she had been given. Fortunately, Catherine over-came the past and learned to adore, respect and admire Moncrief as he deserved as time went on.
4) The side characters of Catherine's late husband Harry, her housekeeper Glynneth, the local Vicar, sister-in-laws to Moncrief of Julianna and Hortensia and others made the plot rich and inviting. These characters all played side roles to the story, some more important and interesting than others. Glynneth's position is disclosed fully by the books end and her background is very entertaining.
5) Character development was deep and true and played out well in this book. Both Catherine and Moncrief became much better people by the end of the story. I liked how they took their past and all the mistakes, mourned for their losses but, found a way to move on and make a future together. A much better future. It may have been painful along the way but, their growth was real and appealing.
6) I liked how the truth about the letters worked out at the end and the discovery of the real Glynneth. There was no shouting matches, storming away or stomping off to a pity party. Catherine took all the lies and deceptions in stride and found a way to work out the issues. She handled the truth with dignity and courage as a great heroine should.
I give this book a hearty two thumbs up or as ratings go....4 plus stars! I would like to give it 5 stars but, I am picky with giving a perfect rating to any book. I only give that to really, really rare finds. This book came close though! If you have not read this author before, do pick her up. This one was definitely worth the lack of sleep I got reading it all night long! Enjoy!
Till Next We Meet.......2006-03-01
Absolutely wonderful. It has everything you need, right to the very last page. I would buy all her books
Sweet Romance.......2006-02-17
This was a book you could put down because it was some what slow and sad. The main character morned for his first husband for most of the book only to find out that the current husband was the real man who had stole her heart. This would not be first choice for a historical romance.
A sweetly sensual tear-jerker. Stock up on Kleenex........2005-07-24
I postponed ordering Karen Ranney's newest novel until I had read all the rest, because the cover synopsis had me expecting a rather weak, besotted hero. Cyrano de Bergerac may be classic literature, but he's not the hero I think of when I'm in the mood to read sensual romance.
Fortunately, "weak" is the last word anyone would use to describe the hero of "When Next We Meet."
Married for only a month before her husband accepts a military commission and leaves for the Americas, a young heiress grows increasingly lonely on her late father's country estate.
With only servants and an overbearing vicar for company, she fills the empty hours writing long, yearning letters to the husband she barely knew - and is delighted by the depth and sensitivity revealed by the letters she receives in reply.
In fact, her handsome husband is a despicable fortune-hunter who can't be bothered to answer his wife's letters. A fellow officer feels sorry for the neglected bride, and forges what is intended to be a single, polite reply, to spare her feelings.
Driven by his own isolation, as he is careful not to befriend the men under his command, he lets himself be drawn into a continuing correspondence with a woman he's never met. His conscience tells him that his letters are creating expectations that the woman's real husband will never meet. But it's too late for second thoughts; he's come to rely on her letters for the warmth and affection that are missing from a life devoted to duty.
When the scoundrel is shot to death, his widow spirals into depression and despair, believing she's lost the only man she could ever love. Naturally, the real letter-writer can't resist a visit when he returns home. But instead of the predictable scene where he falls in love at the first sight of her, Ranney gives the hero and her readers an ugly shock: a laudenum-addicted, nearly incoherent shell of the woman our hero hoped to find.
He's appalled, ridden with guilt, disgusted by her addiction, and tempted to offer the only possible comfort to the grief-shattered widow: the truth about her uncaring husband, who laughed at her letters and isn't worth her grief.
Fearing that the truth might push her even further into despair, and helpless to undo the consequences of his forged correspondence, he wants nothing more than to leave and never look back. But an apparent suicide attempt brings his sense of duty into play, and sets the stage for a marriage that neither of them wants.
From this unpromising foundation, a cautious affection begins to grow between a man constrained by a terrible deception, and a widow confused by the depth of her feelings for this stranger who thinks he can take the place of a husband she adored.
The forged love letters stand between these two lonely people like a wall of lies. It will take more than a leap of faith to bring them together, and turn the love affair that existed on paper into a living reality.
Even if you feel certain of a happily-ever-after ending, there's enough love, loss and longing to soak at least half a box of Kleenex. You might also want to stock up on chocolate.
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