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I enjoy a good space adventure, and this series has delivered well so far, featuring some strange aliens and plenty of action. The primary aliens here are a race of giant spacefaring whale-like creatures that can act as spaceships for smaller creatures, such as humans. The humans and others who fly within the Leviathan can also mentally bond with their living ships, sharing information and feelings, etc.
So, an interesting concept.
In this second book of the Honors series, “Honor” Zara Cole and her Leviathan, Nadim, along with Bea, the other Honor assigned to Nadim, encounter some serious peril. They have to figure out how to defeat a godlike alien who has powers that eclipse pretty much any other species’. That is introduced in Honor Bound and then continues in the third book, Honor Lost.
Relationships introduced in Honor Among Thieves continue to develop and deepen here, and Zara gets a better idea of who she really is, freed from the difficulties she faced growing up on Earth. She finds she loves being in space, loves her Leviathan and Bea, their whole team. And she will do anything to protect them, even if it’s to disobey orders from her home world.
Honor Bound is an entertaining middle book in an interesting science fiction series. I’m reading all three pretty close together, which is nice because I don’t have to look back and figure out what I may have forgotten. (It’s great to find a completed series to begin reading rather than start on the first book when it’s just been published and have to wait a year or more to find out what’s next!) I just would have preferred less profanity.
Rated: High. Profanity includes 12 uses of strong language, around 120 instances of moderate profanity, about 170 uses of mild language, and fewer than 10 instances of the name of Deity in vain. A good amount fighting in space between various alien races, and some one-on-one fighting.
