ThinksMarkedly wrote:Hello Mersal
Welcome to the forum and welcome back to the world of the honorverse. As others have said, you're describing At All Costs (AAC), which was published in 2005.
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So my recommendation is to read the books in publication order, including the Crown of Slaves and Saganami Island spin-offs
- Crown of Slaves (2003)
- Shadow of Saganami (2004)
- At All Costs (2005; you're here)
- Storm from the Shadows (2009)
- Torch of Freedom (2009)
- Mission of Honor (2010)
- A Rising Thunder (2012)
- Shadow of Freedom (2013)
- Cauldron of Ghosts (2014)
- Shadow of Victory (2016)
- Uncompromising Honor (2018)
- To End in Fire (2021)
Thank you so much for the very comprehensive post, ThinksMarkedly.
The full recommendation is a very big undertaking, it certainly is a full year's read. But SoS sounds pretty fun. I don't know about CoS.
Edit: how typical. I was reading up on Crown of Slaves on Wikipedia just to get some context of the outset, clicked a link I thought would take me to SoS for a similar plot blurb, but it took me to the main Honorverse wiki-article and not realizing where I was I read the hugest spoiler in the history of spoilers, very early in the article, where they detail Honor mimicking Lord Nelson's life. What an idiotic thing to reveal in the first third of a long article on a 20-book series.
I've waited 17 years and on the second day of this project it gets wing-clipped. Great.
But anyway, are CoS and SoS independent of eachother or are they chronological? Can I read SoS first?