the night has a thousand saxaphones

So that means the best is yet to come? I haven't been able to get my hands on Shards of Honor at the library, but I'm really looking forward to it. I think there's enough genre range in this series that people can like very different parts of it- the military stuff really works for me, but I'm a bit wary of Civil Campaign. (Anything described as "comedy of manners" makes me wary. It's astonishing that hilarytamar and I get along)