A Beautiful Friendship
by David Weber
I always enjoy reading David Weber. Any book about the treecats is an instant need-to-read for me.
I recommend you buy this book. Run, don’t walk and get to Amazon or your local bookstore and grab your copy.
If you are in Australia, check out Fishpond.com.au - A Beautiful Friendship to buy this book.
I loved reading about Stephanie, the first person ever to bond with a treecat. I found out how Stephanie met and bonded with Lionheart and why she did. We learnt more of treecat society and how they look on the human interlopers to their planet. This is a Young Adult book but whoever said only the young can read them are silly. It’s a book I loved reading.
We find out why the Harrington’s arrived on Sphinx, how the Harrington Steading was created and David made real the ancestors of Honor Harrington.
This was a great book to read. David’s portrayal of Stephanie totally captured how a smart, teenage girl gets her own way (most of the time) and how she faces the consequences of her actions. Her concern and love for her family and Lionheart is real and is a wonderful read.
I also found out more about the Ranger’s of Sphinx and just what Sphinx was like then for the newly arrived Harrington family. As always with David’s characters, they are real, you can see them as real people and you want the good guys to win and the bad guys to lose.
What’s A Beautiful Friendship about?
Stephanie Harrington who wanted to be a forest ranger on her home world of Meyerdahl, ends up relocating with her parents to Sphinx in the Star Kingdom of Manticore. It was an exciting opportunity for her parents but not what she had planned for herself. Sphinx is a planet that hadn’t been explored very much due to a plague and was full of new species just waiting to be discovered.
However, many of those new species were very dangerous and her parents grounded her, with no exploration without an adult to supervise her. In an attempt to keep her distracted, her mother interests Stephanie in the “Great Disappearing Celery Mystery” and Stephanie’s investigations ends up with the biggest discovery any would be ranger could want: an intelligent alien species.
The Great Disappearing Celery Mystery is solved by Stephanie when she finds out that treecats have a taste for celery, something she can’t really understand.
After the treecats are ‘discovered’ they are the focus of international scrutiny with Stephanie and Lionheart the centre of attention. Some of it positive but some of it very dangerous for Stephanie, Lionheart, her friends and the treecats. Threatening the friends and family of any Harrington is not a smart thing to do.
Things are definitely getting interesting on Sphinx. Have a read of A Beautiful Friendship and let me know if you loved it as much as I did.
Tania Shipman
I love to read
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Sounds like an interesting read. I like the idea it is suitable for children and adults.
Kerry, this is one book to be enjoyed by both adults and children. It’s a great read.
Hi,
Wow I’m not really a big fan of books but it sounds quite interesting. No wonder you enjoy reading it. The storyline sounds interesting as well.
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Hi Wilson. I’ve read David Weber for so many years I can’t remember when I started. It’s a great book and very interesting. Let me know if you ever read it.
I love reading books, but havent had the time lately
The book A beautiful friendship sounds like a great read. Thanks for sharing your review on the book.
Cheers
Lisa
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Hi Lisa
It’s a great read. I think your boys would enjoy it also
A beautiful friendship does sound like a great read. I love to read, however I seem to find very little time these days to do it.
I love the idea of Stephanie connecting with tree cat, and having that connection, because at the end of the day, that’s exactly the way it is – we are all connected.
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Hilary
That’s a great way of looking at the book. I knew it inside myself but I didn’t say it. Thanks so much.
It’s incredible how many books you love to read, Tanny, and how many you do actually read. It’s marvelous. I would love to see your bookshelf.
Thank you for sharing your review of A Beautiful Friendship by David Weber with us.
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Bookshelf?? What is a book shelf? I have book cases !!. Currently 5 in the house all full and double packed as well as a LOT of ebooks. That doesn’t count the books in boxes under the bed umm, I’ll stop now.
I’m glad you enjoyed my review. David Weber is one of my favourite authors.