- Hardcover: 720 pages
- Publisher: Tor; 1 edition (3 May 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 076531505X
- ISBN-13: 978-0765315052
- Product Dimensions: 24 x 16.7 x 5.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 265,690 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Gripping... Shifting effortlessly between battles among warp-speed starships and among oar-powered galleys, Weber brings the political manoeuvring, past and future technologies, and vigorous protagonists together for a cohesive, engrossing whole." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Off Armageddon Reef."
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Young Cayleb Ahrmahk has accomplished things few people could even dream of. Not yet even thirty years old, he s won the most crushing naval victories in human history. He s smashed a hostile alliance of no less than five princedoms and won the hand of the beautiful young Queen Sharleyan of Chisholm. Cayleb and Sharleyan have created the Charisian Empire, the greatest naval power in the history of Safehold, and they ve turned Charis into a place of refuge for all who treasure freedom. Their success may prove short-lived. The Church of God Awaiting, which controls most of Safehold, has decreed their destruction. Mother Church s entire purpose is to prevent the very things to which Charis is committed. Since the first attempt to crush the heretics failed, the Church has no choice but to adopt some of the hated Charisian innovations for themselves. Soon a mighty fleet will sail against Cayleb, destroying everything in its path. But there are still matters about which the Church knows nothing, including Cayleb and Sharleyan s adviser, friend, and guardian the mystic warrior-monk named Merlin Athrawes. Merlin knows all about battles against impossible odds, because he is in fact the cybernetic avatar of a young woman named Nimue Alban, who died a thousand years before. As Nimue, Merlin saw the entire Terran Federation go down in fire and slaughter at the hands of a foe it could not defeat. He knows that Safehold is the last human planet in existence, and that the stasis the Church was created to enforce will be the human race s death sentence if it is allowed to stand. The juggernaut is rumbling down on Charis, but Merlin Athrawes and a handful of extraordinary human beings stand in its path. The Church is about to discover just how potent the power of human freedom truly is.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I generally don't bother to write reviews of books I've read (rather spend time reading more books) but this one compelled me to write one. Horrible book, total waste of time. Bad prose, huge number of confusingly named characters, "tell, don't show" -style of writing, and no content. Earlier books in the series have been going downhill (the first one was quite enjoyable), and this is the bottom. Don't buy this one, I am sorry I did.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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There are a great many things wrong with this book, starting with the cover art: it has a flying saucer zapping a sailing ship with a death ray, something that - thankfully - doesn't happen in the book. Then there's the length: over a thousand pages, making it thicker and heavier than my copy of the bible, although admittedly the typeface is larger. And it is at least a better story than the bible, making use of such advanced techniques as causes preceding effects, characters having believable motivations etc. Trouble is, it's still not that good. Much of that length is taken up by lengthy internal monologues which serve to set the scene but which digress to such an extent that, when they occur in the middle of a conversation (as they almost invariably do) it's hard to keep track and is terribly jarring when a character finally decides to say something. And there's nothing exciting and new at all when compared to the earlier books in the series. It's merely a small development of themes that we're already very familiar with from the first three volumes. Add to that a cast of so many characters that the appendix listing them all covers 32 pages, and that they all have idiotic names which are based on normal names but with all the vowels hideously butchered, and it's too easy to lose track of what's going on.
I quite enjoyed reading it, but it's dreadfully flawed.
I quite enjoyed reading it, but it's dreadfully flawed.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I count myself as a bit of a David Weber fan and have read many of his books. Usually I love them.
Unfortunately I have to agree with all the negative comments. I really had to force myself to finish this book. It dragged and was ponderous. I won't be reading the next unless it gets some good reviews - I don't want to put myself though that again.
Sorry David - we all know you can do better
Unfortunately I have to agree with all the negative comments. I really had to force myself to finish this book. It dragged and was ponderous. I won't be reading the next unless it gets some good reviews - I don't want to put myself though that again.
Sorry David - we all know you can do better
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Truly Awful
I feel I have to add to other reviewers slating this book.
The series started spectacularly well - 'Off Armageddon Reef' was a really interesting book. Read more
The series started spectacularly well - 'Off Armageddon Reef' was a really interesting book. Read more
Published 3 months ago by D. Scott
A mighty waste of time!
I enjoyed the Dahak series by David Weber, even though I found some of the prose during "conversations" in Elizabethan English a bit self indulgent and hard to follow. Read more
Published 8 months ago by S. Allison
A series grinding to a halt.
This whole series seems to be getting slower and slower.
I took the first book away on vacation (on my kindle) and found the whole fleeing from Earth premise quite fun. Read more
I took the first book away on vacation (on my kindle) and found the whole fleeing from Earth premise quite fun. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Martin Percival
Long-winded and anticlimactic
I'm a big fan of David Weber's work and this isn't up to his usual standard. It's far longer than necessary and it's not until half way through the two-inch thick book that things... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Fulby
It's not really as bad as everyone says it is
I like this book. I've read the four current Safehold books one after the other over a few weeks and there is no doubt that this is the slowest-moving so far (and I hope... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Pedro Conejo
A mighty fortess
A fun continuation of the series, I rate it 3, satisfactory not because I love it less, but because I love his other series ( Honor Harrington, Hell's Gate) much more. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Joedylan
Too much, too slow
I'm a big fan of David Weber. And I'm a big fan of the Safehold series. But this book...
I understand we're dealing with rebuilding a world and a society. Read more
I understand we're dealing with rebuilding a world and a society. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Hammerbolt
Its not sci-fi, not really ..and this was a bit slow
I was hooked on this 'Safehold' story about the oppression of a Church created to protect humankind but I have to say that after this one I'm getting a little disenchanted
Its... Read more
Its... Read more
Published 19 months ago by A. J. Sudworth
Don't miss this if you like Weber.
Ok, looking at other reviews they are pointing out the slow pace of this book, true it is a slow paced book but I do not see this as an issue! Read more
Published 20 months ago by Mr. Graham Foxall
Part of a lovely series
A good book with a fair balance between swash-buckling action and political/psychological warfare and innovations/"inventions" ! Read more
Published 22 months ago by Ishkandar
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