There’s not a conversation that goes by in which Rhenn doesn’t modestly accept correction from friends and acquaintances. In Recluce, I previously found it charming. It’s not as tedious as the recent Recluce books, but it’s very similar – an almost diary-like recounting of quotidian events, buffered with vague, portentous conversation.Ĭommon across many of Modesitt’s books is the desire and need of the protagonists to be schooled by wise elders who make broad statements which the protagonist then examines at length for the treasure they must contain. I was disappointed, then, to find that in this second Imager book Rhenn is a mage turned reluctant law enforcer. I’ve found the latest Recluce books – about a mage turned reluctant law enforcer – to be a hard slog. That was before I’d delved into the latest Recluce books (many of which I also bought in one go), and found that the spell had broken. At the time, my theory was that Modesitt was consistent within a series, so if the first book was good, the rest would be as well. I liked the first book in this series, Imager, and on the strength of that, bought many of the rest in one go.
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