Books... NaNoLoMo#4
NaNoLoMo #4
4 Nov 2012
Scholar (The Imager Portfolio) by L. E. Modesitt
Tor Fantasy (2012), Edition: Reprint, Mass Market Paperback, 672 pages
Another fine volume in The Imager Portfolio, 'Scholar' is set generations before the first previous books in this Universe. As with all Modesitt books it is lushly descriptive and has a series of credible and practical (but not entirely predicable) sub-plots.
Quaeryt is a scholar with a secret - he is also an Imager. As an adviser to the Lord of Telaryn he is sent to investigate why a large cohort of troops are still needed to occupy Tilbor, ten years after his sire conquered the area. Just getting there turns out to be an ordeal, with storms, pirates, a ship-wreck, reavers and poisoning. Once he arrives he discovers things are both better and worse than expected, and has to find his way to the bottom of plots and deceptions without revealing his imaging ability, and before any of several plotters do away with him.
The story does hold some surprises, most of which are neatly wound up by the end, but enough loose threads are left dangling that I'm anxiously looking forward to getting the next book in this sequence.
(*****) Five stars
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4 Nov 2012
Scholar (The Imager Portfolio) by L. E. Modesitt
Tor Fantasy (2012), Edition: Reprint, Mass Market Paperback, 672 pages
Another fine volume in The Imager Portfolio, 'Scholar' is set generations before the first previous books in this Universe. As with all Modesitt books it is lushly descriptive and has a series of credible and practical (but not entirely predicable) sub-plots.
Quaeryt is a scholar with a secret - he is also an Imager. As an adviser to the Lord of Telaryn he is sent to investigate why a large cohort of troops are still needed to occupy Tilbor, ten years after his sire conquered the area. Just getting there turns out to be an ordeal, with storms, pirates, a ship-wreck, reavers and poisoning. Once he arrives he discovers things are both better and worse than expected, and has to find his way to the bottom of plots and deceptions without revealing his imaging ability, and before any of several plotters do away with him.
The story does hold some surprises, most of which are neatly wound up by the end, but enough loose threads are left dangling that I'm anxiously looking forward to getting the next book in this sequence.
(*****) Five stars
This entry was originally posted at http://somewhatbent.dreamwidth.org/449684.html. Please comment there using OpenID.