Book completed

The Mage-Fire War, by L.E. Modesitt, Jr. Recluce #21. This is the third book about Beltur, and tells about their first months establishing Haven (the future Fairhaven) as a somewhat independent community. Mostly it’s about the war they had to fight to keep one of the neighbors from using it as a launching ground to invade another, and if that’s not what you’re expecting from the book you might find it tiresome – hence the title, I suppose, to tip you off. At the end of the book, Beltur solves their problem with a method that Modesitt has used in quite a few of his recent books, and in this case it seems quite justified. The book doesn’t contribute very much to the overall story of the Recluce series, but if you like Beltur (and I do), it’s fine to spend more time with him.