I agree that David Weber have some flaws as a writer, and certainely suffer from the lack of a strong editor on his latest books ( much should have been cut from them ).

Honor is often too good on too many things, but not everything Honor wants to or is about to do is perfect or right.

On the second book for exemple >!her choice to send the heaviest ship away on a patrol because their captains are women turned out to be a mistake leading to the one sided destruction of a fleet and the death of a dear friend. She is also later on the verge of executing prisonners of war, war criminals, rapists, disguting scums who will be shot for their crime anyway, but she was about to kill them on the spot without trial until one of her officiers stopped her.!<

As for Honor or Merlin's lack of introspection, i fully disagree, >!Honor tortures herself with her feelings with the Admiral for 3 ( 4? ) whole books before she is invited into the marriage by his wife. Merlin often wonder whether what he has done was the right thing, and later SPOILER !< >!pick the opportunity of not including those recent memories into the his "copy", thus saving her from suffreing the very same dilemnas .!<

Many of the characters in both the Honorverse and Safehold are indeed too "black or white", on both the friendly and the ennemy sides. Skipping the chapters on their points of view is not an unreasonnable way to improve reading experience, especially for the church official for Safehold where the systematic retelling of events prevents any loss of information anyway.

>Having a character overcome superior odds through cleverness and skill is great; having them overcome superior odds because their enemies are idiots who just happen to do everything exactly wrong is boring.

Only the very early and the later books suffer from it thought, and the story have "good" reasons for the former.

Honor do not face utterly dumb antagonist on the following books until the Solarian come into play, and there it is indeed way overdone on the many small battle between the various Alliance and Solarian fleets in which Honor actually only leads 2 actions.

I did the same with The Hunt For Red October, i also tried Harry Potter but couldn't wistand the fantasy words ( jumping straight to the 7th was a mistake, but reading the early ones as an adult is not a good experience ).

- The Assasin Series by Robin Hobb (3+) : it started poorly with me taking the first book of the first serie and the second of an other to read on a very long trip... I read them as a young teenager, and re-read them several time while i grew up and understood new things. I can still read them contrary to Harry Potter whose flaws just jump at my face whenever i look at them.

- The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy ( 5+ ?) : I first read it in my language, lost the book, bought it in English and read it many time since, << No i am not losing my time re-reading the same book , i learn English ! >>. Most of Tom Clancy's book have been read at least twice except the one written iby several people.

- Good Omens by Pratchet and Gaiman : borrowed it, read it, returned it... Borrowed it, read it, lost it... Bought it, read it, returned it... Found it, read it...

- The Honorverse and the Safehold series by David Weber : very long, very annoying at some points, yet i must have read 4 time their word counts in an unequel way since the later books are very flawed.

Have you tried reading book after watching their somewhat faithful movie adaptation ? ( Harry Potter serie, No Country for Old Man, The Hunt For Red October... ).

Some video game were also developped into books, either officialy or in fanfiction.

There are also whole genre of book where the character is reincarnated as a video game character ( isekai, litRPG... ) or the whole reality is turned into a RPG with numbers ( Apocalyspe System genre... ).

You might also try Audible book, where someone else do the reading for you and you just have to do the listening.

Do you "cheat" video game to bypass annoying/boring challenges or to skip the story itself and get to the ending and the Steam achievement ?

I read it as a teenager, so i might have missed something. Yet i remember the main character is involved in a homosexual relationship, and it was not described as being a bad thing

If there is a Mormon takes on his books i would rather see it for women sometime being submissive