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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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Shay Walsh
reviewed A Mighty Fortress (Safehold Series #4) on December 20, 2010
A Mighty Fortress (Safehold Series #4)
I am of two minds on this book. Let's start with the good.
Let me say with no hesitation that had I never read any Honor Harrington books, I would be the Safehold series' biggest fan. It has action, politics, characters to cheer for, villians who are villians not because they are eeeevil, but because they have a different (though understandable) viewpoint.
So, if you haven't read Honor Harrington, stop readig this review right now and go buy the entire Safehold series.
Sadly, I have read pretty much every Honor Harrington novel, including several of the Worlds of Honor books, the Shadown of Saganami, etc. Sadly, this has left me feeling cheated by the entire Safehold series. These books read exactly like an Age of Sail version of Honor Harrington. The similarities are striking:
Nimue Alban- brunette, contralto voice, former naval commander, has relationship issues, lives in a world where everyone drinks hot chocolate, excellent with katana
Honor Harrington - brunette, contralto voice, current naval commander, has relationship issues, drinks hot chocolate, killed a guy in a sword duel
Plotline for every Safehold book: Sizeable forces, including the far off Church, mass again Charis. Charis wins handily in a blue water navy battle because of better technology. People on Safehold make references to baseball.
Plotline for every Honor Harrington book: Sizable forces, including the Terran Federation, mass againt the Star Kingdom of Manticore. Manticore wis handily in a space navy battle because of better technology. People on Grayson make references to baseball.
I am all for writers going with what they know, but the Safehold series could have really used some point of differntiation. The fact that Nimue Alban is a robot who changes her gender and the differences in technology aren't enogh to make this work feel like it stands on its own.
I am a bit disappointed in David Weber. Safehold should be wonderful, but I can't help feel like I've already read these books.
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