Shadow of Victory (Honorverse: Saganami Island, #4)

Overall, I enjoyed this book, although it took me 3 false starts before I could finally get more than a couple of chapters in. Unlike several books in these later stages of the series, I didn't notice any outright cutting and pasting from other Honorverse books; however, it's been a while since I've done a read-through. If there are complaints to be made (spoiler alert: there are), I have two major ones. First, I couldn't be more annoyed by some of the chapters if they had just been written entirely in Polish. Second, as much as I understand the need to set the scene, this book needed twice as much in the way of Manticoran or Havenite point of view and half as much from rebel leaders that we're probably never going to hear much from again.

I guess it never hurts to complain about the incomprehensible numbers being thrown around in the battle chapters. I skim those, but it still hurts my brain knowing they're there.

On the plus side, it's good to see that some characters are still kicking around. Loved that Scotty Tremaine was there captaining the RMS Alistair McKeon. Add in the others from the Saganami Island series, and you get a nice cast of familiar characters.

I don't know if I'll ever read this one again, but I'm glad I finally got through it.