Midst Toil and Tribulation: A Novel in the Safehold Series (#6)

by David Weber

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...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765361264
• ISBN13: 9780765361264
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Length: 816 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 4.1" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

I can't believe I got sucked into this series.

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.