Book completed
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eve_primeThe Mage-Fire War, by L.E. Modesitt, Jr. This one's the third of four books about Beltur, a mage in Candar, in his Recluce series. I reread it before starting the new one, the fourth. And it's good that I did so, because I barely remembered anything at first. Like a great many of Modesitt's fantasy novels, the plot is that some leader is irredeemably bad and harmful, so after dealing with the problems for an extended period, the mage protagonist deals with the problem by assassinating the bad guy. I'm looking forward to the next one, in which we'll learn how Fairhaven, the great center of white (chaos) magery in Candar, was founded by Beltur and his wife, two black (order) mages.
(The Beltur books are quite early in Recluce chronology - hm, Wikipedia says this one is in year 679, as compared with 1850 when the original Recluce book about Lerrys was set, and I also just learned that the fourth Beltur book is set 16 years after the one I just read, so it's probably more about Beltur's friend's daughter Taelya.)
(The Beltur books are quite early in Recluce chronology - hm, Wikipedia says this one is in year 679, as compared with 1850 when the original Recluce book about Lerrys was set, and I also just learned that the fourth Beltur book is set 16 years after the one I just read, so it's probably more about Beltur's friend's daughter Taelya.)