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Man, where do i start? Just finished it, and i have to say i have never struggled to read one of Weber's books. Never. This one took me a month to read, seriously, a Month. I like David Weber's books, he has been one of my go to authors for years. 6 books in and nothing much has happened, i certainly hope he's not trying to cover the 100 years war with this story line...

Seriously though David, you could have told this story up to this point in 3 books. Or did Tor screw you into a 12 book contract? I'm going to get the next book in this series, but if it's more like the last books, i will probably not finish the series if you actually get around to it. Another reviewer above me commented that you have to slog through 2/3 of the book to get to the good stuff, he is most definitely correct. The last 1/3 is good stuff, but the ending made me want to chuck my book into the street, then i remembered its a Kindle(love my Kindle Amazon!). Please David, try and move the story line ahead. I'm personally hoping that you have humanity get back to the stars and kick the Gbaba's butt, but i get the feeling from how long you've strung this out, that's another 15 books down the line.

I'm a long time fan and i highly recommend David Weber's other books(Honor Harrington, Dahak, DeVries, etc.), but i just can't recommend this series.


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Midst Toil and Tribulation A Novel in the Safehold Series #6 eBook David Weber Reviews

I've been a fan since the first book, but this audiobook company has NO sense of continuity- They use different narrators for each book, but that's an understandable thing. What isn't understandable is that the first book was narrated by a person who used different accents for the different characters and pronounced the names of people, things and places a certain way. Then when I got the second book, it was a different narrator who used entirely different accents than the first, and the same with the next book and the one after that. With this book the newest narrator is now pronouncing the names COMPLETELY different than before. As an example, one of the countries in the book is called "Charis". Now in all the books before this, it has been pronounced as "Kair-us", with this book it's pronounced "Chair-us". And the main character is "Merlin Athrawes" pronounced "Uh-Throw(like COW)-ess" now it's "Ah-Thraws" It is SO distracting that I find I can't even enjoy the book.
I have enjoyed the Safehold series very much; until this book. I was about halfway through when the thought struck me that Mr. Weber must have a contract with his publisher to turn on more books in this series than he can fill if the pace continues like the first five. So he has chosen to cram the book with filler which lends nothing to character development or advancement of the plot. Although I purchased each of the first six books as soon as I had finished the previous the reviews I have seen of this book's followup lead me to believe that Weber's slowdown have gotten even worse and encouraged me to postpone purchasing book seven for over six months. I have too many other good books to read to subject myself to plodding through one. I finally had to give up on Jordan's Wheel of Time series because it became a burden, I hope that this one picks up so I can finish it.
I've been enjoying this series and it was worth the price of the hard bound to read this book.

Stage 1 Full disclosure, I've read this book and the rest of this series. I've read Weber's Honor Harrington series and other than his Vampire novel, I've enjoyed the vast majority of his work.

Stage 2 Cons This book is too long, too wordy and focuses far too much on the internal conversations and meetings that are not the keys to the history of safehold or her future. The vast majority of the scenes in this book are someone in a parlour or in conversation about some point of action rather than the action itself. I'd say that 12% of the total novel is action and in this form of fiction I think it needs to be at least double that. Were I to draw a plot line for the story arcs described in this novel, I'd be hard pressed to say how Cayleb changed, how Sharleyan changed, how Staynair changed, how Stohnar changed... the list goes on. This book seems to be about Irys, Princess of Corisande and Merlin, but I fear that because no action occurred near her, her arc fell far too flat. I feel like something important is going to happen with her, but I felt that it was hard to care. Please, I beg the author to make those pages worth the read in the next installment.

Merlin's transformation and that of another character(literally a resurrection of sorts) were the most powerful pieces of this entire work. Battles often fell flat and ran into run-on detail festivals that shortchanged action and the value of men for the history teacher's lexicon and abuse of dates. We are more than time passing. This book should have been the same.

Stage 3 What went right. The heroes had some losses. In a land war, the two enemies were far more equal. The conflicts were slightly more believable. The main character a bit less of a Mary Sue. The consequences of PTSD and decision fatigue were believable and well represented. The challenges of the quantitative and qualitative were well represented. The series remains enjoyable.

Stage 4 Why 4 stars and not 3 or 5. I enjoy the series, but this book stretched as close to the 3 as I'm willing to let still stand in the 4. The editor(s) need to help Weber solve what's killing his most recent books. Someone needs to help him pick and choose his battles and make certain that he writes what his audience wants just as much as he writes what is a joy for him. I struggled with finishing this book in three major places. The reason I finished, was because I am invested in the series and I want to see the end. I was very close in all three instances with walking away from it all. That would have meant a 1 star review.
But the book turns around 175 pages before the end. The magic that makes this series work showed up and finished the story like a lion, not the lamb we've been seeing. All of the build up and pay off showed up and made the work worth standing where it does on the shelf. Not enough to make Weber seem the genius who simply lead us down a primrose path and then rescued us before the end, but a deeply flawed book that cleaned up and while far better textually than Books 1-3 for editing, it was a mere tenth of the power and impact of story. There just wasn't enough in this book to make it worth the size. 4 definitely not 5, but the series is far better than a 3 at this time would explain. The characters you've been reading about show up, even if some of your favorites stand on the sidelines and do almost nothing.

Stage 5 Wait for the next book? I'll preorder it, I'll wait, but I would hope for a little more... cohesion. Payoff. Power.
Man, where do i start? Just finished it, and i have to say i have never struggled to read one of Weber's books. Never. This one took me a month to read, seriously, a Month. I like David Weber's books, he has been one of my go to authors for years. 6 books in and nothing much has happened, i certainly hope he's not trying to cover the 100 years war with this story line...

Seriously though David, you could have told this story up to this point in 3 books. Or did Tor screw you into a 12 book contract? I'm going to get the next book in this series, but if it's more like the last books, i will probably not finish the series if you actually get around to it. Another reviewer above me commented that you have to slog through 2/3 of the book to get to the good stuff, he is most definitely correct. The last 1/3 is good stuff, but the ending made me want to chuck my book into the street, then i remembered its a (love my !). Please David, try and move the story line ahead. I'm personally hoping that you have humanity get back to the stars and kick the Gbaba's butt, but i get the feeling from how long you've strung this out, that's another 15 books down the line.

I'm a long time fan and i highly recommend David Weber's other books(Honor Harrington, Dahak, DeVries, etc.), but i just can't recommend this series.