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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 9090442" data-attributes="member: 20564"><p>My TBR pile shouted at me as I reread an old trilogy I enjoyed. Started when I had some down time and looked what books I had loaded onto my phone, causing me to start the first of the series, and then I finished the other two in physical. (I have all three in physical.)</p><p></p><p>It's the Dahak series by David Weber, consisting of Mutineers' Moon, The Armageddon Inheritance, and Heirs of Empire. All of them are a bit Mary Sue SF action and space battle books with an MC but also occasionally told from the point of view of others including certain bad guys, not all of whom have a redemption arc. Not quite an ensemble cast since it does have a definite MC, but still. Though the other characters are interesting and memorable, they aren't consistently fleshed out/complex enough to be "alive" in many cases.</p><p></p><p>MM is the first, and probably my favorite among them. There's a "courtroom" scene that I really enjoy. AI does a good job managing rising tension, and I'm a sucker for space battles. HoF is the weakest in my opinion. It has an A and B plot, and the A plot drags at times. And is much smaller in scale than the B plot. I've reread this before skipping the middle of the A plot, though this time I read everything again. Three of the five characters in the A plot get quite well fleshed out, and the other two are just there -- they are all effectively new to the series, though mentioned as babies in the second book. In the B plot it jumps between a lot of characters, both returning and new. I like it's characterizations more. Still, an enjoyable read.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blue, post: 9090442, member: 20564"] My TBR pile shouted at me as I reread an old trilogy I enjoyed. Started when I had some down time and looked what books I had loaded onto my phone, causing me to start the first of the series, and then I finished the other two in physical. (I have all three in physical.) It's the Dahak series by David Weber, consisting of Mutineers' Moon, The Armageddon Inheritance, and Heirs of Empire. All of them are a bit Mary Sue SF action and space battle books with an MC but also occasionally told from the point of view of others including certain bad guys, not all of whom have a redemption arc. Not quite an ensemble cast since it does have a definite MC, but still. Though the other characters are interesting and memorable, they aren't consistently fleshed out/complex enough to be "alive" in many cases. MM is the first, and probably my favorite among them. There's a "courtroom" scene that I really enjoy. AI does a good job managing rising tension, and I'm a sucker for space battles. HoF is the weakest in my opinion. It has an A and B plot, and the A plot drags at times. And is much smaller in scale than the B plot. I've reread this before skipping the middle of the A plot, though this time I read everything again. Three of the five characters in the A plot get quite well fleshed out, and the other two are just there -- they are all effectively new to the series, though mentioned as babies in the second book. In the B plot it jumps between a lot of characters, both returning and new. I like it's characterizations more. Still, an enjoyable read. [/QUOTE]
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