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I have read through book 10 twice. I have listened through book 10 once (currently half way through).
While I love Horatio Hornblower, I love Honor more.
I do not read science fiction. It's just not my thing, but when War of Honor was published, Baen published it with a CD of all the prior books bound into the cover. I thought this was a cool thing to do and wanted to support it, so bought the book with no intention of actually reading it.
Well that plan didn't work out.
You'll discover as you get deeper into the series that even Honor knows she's literarily related to Hornblower.
Yeah, there's no two ways about it, book 1 is Royal Navy in Space, and the Peeps are almost a drop-in replacement for (little-r) republican France. We're not dealing with hard sci-fi here, but I did think the infodump 2/3 through that described how it got to be "Royal" was less silly than I expected, if (again) a bit on the nose.
I didn't sense a ton of deep ideas forthcoming, but once I settled into letting the book be what it wanted to be, I enjoyed it well enough. Good airport/beach reading, and as I mentioned, you make Honor and the crew just a bit more compelling, and I think you've got a "brand" that could do really well in movies or TV. Master and Commander was a solid film that might have found a bigger audience if it were set on a star-cruiser.