Reviews for By Heresies Distressed (Safehold Series #3)

The average rating for By Heresies Distressed (Safehold Series #3) based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-12-11 00:00:00 Southworth Swede Why is Weber ruining all of his series? Let me reiterate that another way. David Weber has turned from writing could action paced, politically based stories to doggerel. What is bad about this. Well the names are now distracting and logically stupid. Why have the names all be written in a way that you have to phoenitcally sound them out to figure out what they are, but every other word, noun, verb, adjective is spelled in english? So why are the titles of all these nincompoops not Rawk Hylynn for instance? Weber is too full of himself is why. What else do we have wrong in these novels. We are really reading superhero comic books instead of Fantasy or Science Fiction. I think Weber wants an options deal from Stan Lee, or now from Mickey Mouse... All of a sudden there is no death amongst the heroes... Without conflict there is no drama. See the commercial for it. Our protagonists always win. Not only do they win, they do so by slaughter and stupidity. Spolier The Empress is attacked. She is so good that only a man who is wounded is put next to her to reload weapons, the reserve defense force is used all in, just like Texas Hold Em... Not a couple last men to stand with her. So the two last men from the last line before her, rush to the door and the heroic sergeant who Weber has put in at least three pages lives, but the other who has one of those horrid names that you slowed your reading for to sound out, dies of course, just as you expect, in the doorway, saving the other man. What black and white western did Weber watch before writing that, but then it is so cliche because there were so many... Or worse, the world knows that the heroes have been making better weapons and have had months to know this and the spy system has been great for assassinations and church counter insurgency. But when the enemy army which outnumbers the heroes by a great deal meets up, the enemy are annihilated and the heroes not even wounded. An army. This was so in need of a rewrite. Weber obviously has a free hand and no editor to stop him, or no one that understands history or war. Which Weber certainly does not. Sure he should have done damage to the enemy, but should have lost. Give the rest of the world some credit. Not everyone is stupid on the other side. Citing contemporary sources, such as Churchill and Arthur C Clarke also do not make Weber a stronger writer. Here he has a universe set up thousands of years in our future, but the citations are from the decades that Weber grows up in. Talk of Gilgamesh and Churchill and some activity from the year 2300 AD to give it credence. But then it wouldn't be Weber showing off that he knows a thing or two... Except he has forgotten how to craft the tale. And in a transitional book that you want full price for... Hey reader, let me rob you of your money. So to read or not to read. If you haven't read this series stay away. If you are reading this series, find the book for free at the library. Weber doesn't need the money and he didn't give you a book that deserves it.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-01-03 00:00:00 David Whitt Very good, the whole series is excellent!