Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Cardboard villains...

... (especially the Manticoran ones), far too much exposition, a character (Honor's mother) that seem to have walked in the series from one of Heinlein's worse late novels, and many episodes that seem far too contrieved (especially towards the end). If one were to compare the Honor Harrington books with the Miles Vorkosigan ones, it would be possible see that in the former, the series is getting repetitive and far too wordy, while in the latter the main character is growing with each book. A pity, because I used to like the first Honor books.