Book Overview
David Weber's New York Times bestselling Safehold series of military Science Fiction adventure, which began with Off Armageddon Reef, continues with Midst Toil and Tribulation WAR AND FAMINE Once the Church of God Awaiting dominated all the kingdoms of Safehold. Then, after centuries of stasis, the island kingdom of Charis began to defy the edicts of Mother Church--egged on, some say, by the mysterious warrior-monk Merlin Athrawes, who enjoys the Charisian royal family's absolute trust. What vanishingly few people know is that Merlin is the cybernetic avatar of a young woman a thousand years dead, felled in the war in which aliens destroyed Earth...and that since awakening, his task has been to restart the history of the long-hidden human race. Now, reeling from the wars and intrigues that have cascaded from Charis's declaration of independence, the Republic of Siddermark slides into chaos. The Church has engineered a rebellion, and Siddermark's all-important harvest is at risk. King Cayleb and Queen Sharleyan struggle to stabilize their ally, which will mean sending troops--but, even more importantly, preventing famine. For mass starvation in Safehold's breadbasket is a threat even more ominous than civil war...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0765321556
ISBN13:9780765321558
Release Date:September 2012
Publisher:Tor Books
Length:607 Pages
Weight:1.90 lbs.
Dimensions:2.0" x 6.6" x 9.3"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Perfect for Honor Harrington Fans
Published by Dreadgod , 6 days ago
David Weber has produced another hefty tome within a very engaging universe of pathos, adventure, honor, love, evil, in which you are hooked from the first chapter and will want to fill your bookshelf with the rest of this epic series. If you liked any other Weber novel, this is going to resonate and keep you very happily reading while cheering for the victories as well as shedding tear or two at times.
I can't believe I got sucked into this series.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 6 years ago
I've given up on this series until the book comes out where the Aliens who made humans settle Safehold come back into play.
I love David Weber's works however this series isn't one of them. Take a GREAT premise for a story line (first book in the series) and ruin it with 5 additional books explaining, in DETAIL, the evolution of technology from medieval to 1800's level. Very frustrating. It's like he is cutting and pasting from history books to increase the word count.
This is the sixth book in the series and I stopped reading it on page 309 (jumped to the last chapter on page 542 and don't feel I missed much). I'm tired of reading how ancient armies waged war and every nitty gritty detail about sailing a Galley or how a bicycle with a coaster brake works how arbalests are inferior to flintlocks etc...
I get it - Safehold was stunted technologically. When is the author going to cut to the chase? I read the synopsis of the future books in the series and I fear more of the same with the exception of them maybe moving to WWII technology...….eventually and that's just a guess based on the blimps on one of the covers.
Up to this point I think these six books would have made a GREAT 2 book series.
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