Book Review: Imager by L.E. Modesitt, J

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L.E. Modesitt, Jr. is a writer I go through phases of liking a lot to not liking him at all. My liking of him can change from one end of a series to another or from one end of a book to another. As a writer his world building is meticulous and detailed, though occasionally his cultures are thinly veiled excuses to get a Point of some kind across. His magic usually has a good bit of science in it, and vice versa. He tends to be the kind of writer who will write the main character’s entire life story before we get to the part where there is a story beyond, “and then so and so went to school where he learned a lot of stuff that is important and then this happened and he dated so and so.” (This can occasionally be extremely annoying.)

He is a writer who never, ever writes about *stew, though he does not tend to go into the rhapsodic detail Steven Brust does when discussing food.

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