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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rackhir" data-source="post: 635823" data-attributes="member: 149">Honor is hardly perfect, except when it comes to military virtues. She is pretty much the perfect soldier, but on a personal level she is deeply flawed. First she tends to be plagued with self doubt with regards to her personal relations and remember she has screwed up numerous times when it comes to personal relations or diplomatic situations. She punched out Houseman in "Honor of the Queen" which is definitely a no-no for military officers. And that was after she ran away from Greyson because she couldn't deal with the personal attacks on her.Similarly she was virtually paralized in the face of the attacks on her relationship with Admiral White Haven in the latest book. Also her inability to deal with her attraction to White Haven and his to her, led directly to her being on the convoy escort that lead to her capture by the Peeps, in an earlier books. She definitely has somewhat of a death wish as well. In about half the books she continues combats or initiates combats against clearly superior foes. Granted she obviously triumphs in the end, but her ship/fleet is usually a tottering wreck and 80% of the crew has been killed. There are numerous other examples scattered through the books.Granted, if you put her into a combat situation, she's pretty much the god of death and everyone around her seems to be frothing at the mouth with eagerness to die at her side. Not to mention the fact that she can seemingly turn three children and a dog into a crack naval crew almost overnight. One of the funniest lines in the books I though was in "Echoes of Honor" when the crew of her Q-ship finds out that she's their commander, one of them wails "Oh my god! We're all going to die" and sure enough most of them do.One other note, yes the more recent books have slowed down in pace, but in a sense that's an inevitable consiquence of Honor's increasingly crucial position. Remember she's gone from the unimportant middle class captain of an over aged light cruiser to a major political figure in two governments, a buisness magnate and probably the greatest admiral in the universe. Her concerns are no longer just "Is that ship going to attack me?". She has to worry about and deal with domestic, economic, foriegn and political situations and foes as well as military ones. In fact the military ones are generally the least of her concern, since she clearly kicks ass in that area.PS. If you like the combat stuff more than the political. You should probably check out the Starfire series by him and Steve White. They tend to be almost pure combat. Especially the last book, "The Shiva Option".</blockquote>

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