Heirs of Empire

Dahak, Book 3

De: David Weber

Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross

Duración: 19 h y 8 m

Resumen del Editor

Restoring the empire that had been destroyed 45 years earlier, Emperor Colin finds problems in the genocidal Achuutani and in his children, Sean and Harriet, who have been marooned on a hostile planet.

©1996 David Weber (P)2020 Recorded Books

Great!

Loved it! 3rd book in series not the best one but still great! yea! yea!

Great Adventure and excellent series.

The recording is missing chapter 28 which is important to the story. Need to fix it.

Great except...

This book is still a charming story and I am sad it's the last one in the series. There is one wonky aspect, hence the 4 star rating.

The book is overtly a slam against religion. It's sad really. It's not necessary for the plot. It's also dishonest. He writes as if religion's only real motive is it's a vehicle for power. And then fails to acknowledge how government, education, science, technology, and status do the exact same thing.

Basically a rough draft of the "Safehold" series

This is basically a rough draft of the "Safehold" series. I remember reading this as a kid, and then reading the Safehold books and thinking that it seems too familiar. I'm glad the story was expanded!

Outstanding

As always a great read from David Weber action packed and fun to read. If there is any drawback, it is that some portions seem to have been taken from the Safehold series

Not Finished

This book is the basis for the Safehold series. To bad this series was not continued.

Best of the series yet

The first book was, well, rough. I stuck through it though and listened to book 2. Better, but still a little rough around the edges. Book 3 now, this one is the best of the series and left me wishing for the story to continue. Bravo.

Dahak

Excellent story. Character development was thorough. David Weber never disappoints. Narration was superb. Will continue to read Weber's work.

Abridged?

Someone else mentioned this was an abridged version, so my perception may be skewed by noticing that before reading, but it does seem like a sizeable battle that was lead up to, and then constantly referred to, is just.. missing. It could be that the author left the battle itself out and just let the lead up and references to it fill in the blanks, but that seems like it would be an odd choice. Subsequently, the entire crescendo of that storyline also seems to be either absent or just another odd choice to build up for half the book only to resolve abruptly. Like.. super abruptly. Half a paragraph at most. Like, imagine going through the Lord of the Rings series and right before the final, decide-all battle it just cut to one of the characters sitting at home a year or 2 older and his buddy walked in and says "Glad that stuff all worked out a year or 2 ago! The end." Honestly, I'm probably going to have to pick up the print version just to find out what the deal is.

Oh, and the same narrator from the first 2 books still hasn't figured out how to properly.. I don't know.. read punctuation? Judge tempo?.. something.

All I know is that there is a similar length, waaaay too long pause

every 3-4 words that would typically

convey a new speaker/paragraph/chapter/idea, but it happens

continuously.

This may not be sooo bad, except that

since the pauses are so long and similar, the entire book makes you pay

incredibly close attention to insure the action is properly being followed nearly

word by word rather than any type of natural flow.

Not abridged chapter 27 is there.

If you read through the reviews you’ll see some people saying this is an abridged version of the book or clarifying that it is missing a chapter. That issue has been resolved and the entire book is now there.


As usual David Weber gets five stars for plot, characterization the whole 9 yards and so far the readers for the series are really good.