Honor Harrington - Should I pick it up?

[Cheesegear]

I've been reading Honor-verse since January, and have just finished Book 11.
Book 7 and 8 are markedly different from the rest of the series, but, I've also realised that 8 is actually my very favourite book in the series.
Book 10, so far, has been the worst, even worse than the first book, unfortunately, it's so integral to what happens in the books after that.

If nothing else, at the end of the day one is always left with the baffling question of why a person is reading a "Horatio Hornblower but ___' book, instead of just cutting to the chase and reading an actual Horatio Hornblower book.

Hornblower is excellent. This was exactly my thought after reading the first few (this post was also made before I got up to the part where #8 gets awesome ). Unfortunately, I've already read all of the Hornblower books.