I finally got around to finishing The Death of Chaos, the 5th book in the Recluce series. In this book, Lerris returns to tie up the loose ends in The Magic of Recluce, the first book in the series. Many of the characters in the previous books (including Justen) show up. What I found lacking is that Lerris never gets that epiphany, and the way the book resolves his relationship with his wife was entirely through magic, so we never get to see Lerris develop the way he should have. The way many of the recurring characters got killed off also didn't make me happy.
Modesitt writes well, and the prose is great, but he doesn't rise to the heights of Glen Cook in this series.
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