I used to love the Honorverse. Here was a series where a woman being a fantastic hero is normal. Honor is special due to her skill not due to her gender. Then Weber decides to abandon this fantastic and rare premise to focus on religion. Now we have Honor as extra special because she is a woman. We have a giant side rant over evil fundies against good ‘moderates’.

This is made explicit in Safehold which is good not Protestants against evil not Catholics. We had to make sure it was explicit by making the not Catholics commit the worse excesses of the Spanish Inquisition mixed with echos of the Holocaust.

That is just annoying. I wanted to read popcorn books about space navies not religious rants.