Princeps

I have to say, the more that I think about it, Modesitt's fantasies are genre-equivalent military competence porn. Problem-solving is the whole thing, whether it's disaster relief or rooting out corruption, or fending off an army or two. I'm reminded, yet again, of all the Recluse books, but that's a......more

March 2017 Review: Modesitt gave me plenty to think about in this book. He simplifies a lot of politics & economics into Quaeryt's rebuilding of Extela. Governing is definitely a thankless job & sometimes the law just doesn't stretch far enough to cover what really needs to be done to uphold the soc......more

Excellent sequel to Scholar; Quaeryt and Vaelora solve one problem at a time until the **** hits the fan badly. Typical Modesitt ultra-competent hero deals with one problem at a time yes, but I love the style, the world building and the main two characters here; a minor spoiler below about how the se......more

After reading both Scholar and Princeps, I honestly think I was wrong about Modesitt’s motivations behind abandoning the ‘present-day’ progression of his Imager Portfolio series. Pinceps is the second book in the Portfolio to follow Quaeryt, an imager that lived hundreds of years before the events o......more

Lost are not good book I'm involved in the lost ones saga of discovery and human condition motives. The Battle scenarios are complex and exciting.......more