"I haven't progressed along the Honor Harrington series far enough to get to where he "jumped the shark" (to use a bad meme) but the earlier Harrington books are quite enjoyable and worthy of a Hugo, I think. I'm guessing that the later books spend to much time on the bloody politics and less on the characters."

Politics are part of the it, but the battle scenes have become "Who has the bigger technological dick this time, Manticore/Grayson or Haven". The character development in the last one was fun, but the rest was a slog.

I'm starting to think continuing with the series may be the reader's Test........