Beginnings

Other than the 1st entry (just didn't really fit), this was a pretty good anthology that filled in more of the Honorverse Canon. There were two excellent back stories with Honor's parents and (finally) the story of how Honor was adopted by her treecat Nimitz. The best story of the bunch was the last, which detailed the much more realistic struggles of a lower class Grayson female's entry into the Grayson Navy. It also shone a bright light on just how difficult and slowly Protector Benjamin's reforms are perculating through Grayson Steadings.