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Originally Posted by taosaur
I took another run at the fourth Recluce book by L.E. Modesitt, The Order War, and was better able to get into it this time. It has issues--minor continuity issues within scenes, a surplus of named characters with not much to them besides name and faction allegiance--but still a good fantasy read. All of Modesitt's work I've read drifts into an almost curmudgeonly pedantry, but he manages to undercut it enough that it's palatable. It probably doesn't hurt that I've been an aspiring curmudgeon from an early age 
Kirby Heybourne remains a solid reader for the series. |
I tried to like this series, since I've been able to enjoy the Imager series of his. Yes, more than a bit of pedantry, and one
does get tired of it, but somehow in the Recluce books it was just too much and I abandoned after a couple of them. Certainly not the reader's fault - I thought Kirby Heybourne was a perfectly acceptable reader.
Currently re-reading CJ Cherryh's Peacemaker - #15 in the Foreigner series, read by Daniel Thomas May.