A beautiful friendship
Ratings9
Average rating4.2
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Ratings9
Average rating4.2
Twelve-year-old Stephanie Harrington, a genetically-enhanced girl on the pioneer planet of Sphinx, bonds with a treecat, a telepathic and fully sentient animal, putting her in danger from highly placed enemies who want to ensure that the planet remains entirely in human hands.
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Any book that involves Harringtons, tree cats and Manticore is good. There are no exceptions to this rule.
This novel tells the story of Stephanie Harrington, Honor Harrington's ancestor and the first person to form a bond with a treecat. Stephanie is a precocious 14 year old, so this is Weber's first YA novel.
A Beautiful Friendship is an expansion of a short story of the same name that was earlier published in the anthology More than Honor. I suppose you could say that Weber is recycling his earlier work, but the expanded story made it work for me. I do wonder if this is the start of a new series. If so, my emotions are mixed. (Doesn't the man have enough on his plate already? !!)
