War of Honor (Honor Harrington Series #10) Book

This series is beginning to get tedious.

this volume contains about 75% more words than anybody could reasonably use, mostly to tell us tedious detail of the politics of Manticore. I know it's not really unbelievable that corrupt politicians could bend and break laws to their own benefit, and actually believe their own lies. after all, politicians fabricated evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and somehow managed to believe those lies too, but just because truth is stranger than fiction doesn't mean that such fiction is interesting to read.

But even some of the smarter characters act in ways that are at best odd, but at worst stupid. people contradict themselves, act against both their best interests and those of their nation, and just basically make themselves as unsympathetic as possible.