Cav's Place

Rather surprisingly for Modesitt, there’s practically no mention of the environment and ecology in this book. There’s also little put forward regarding how a future society should function. There is, however, plenty of talk about, or in fact against, religion, as well as much about certain other defining characteristics of humanity, so it’s certainly still […]

This is the end of certainly one of the very best series that I ever read. The story is interesting, the pacing is extremely intense, with next to no filler and very, very little that doesn’t actually drive the story forward, and any complaints that may in all fairness be made regarding character development and […]

It‘s a collection of short stories, so not much to it, as I don’t take well to this sort of thing. But there are some interesting ideas in here, some of which are still just as relevant. Rating: 3/5 Note: Original review date lost. Using date listed as the date I finished reading.

This book is just a maelstrom. It brings the whole series together, all the characters together, for one fight, one purpose, one deciding moment. There are still far too many lucky coincidences, far too many characters survive when they shouldn’t have, too many things happen that shouldn’t happen, the writing still isn’t as good as […]

I am noticing more issues with the writing, but that may well be because I’m looking for them more. Otherwise, it’s still a very ambitious story that required an immense amount of work. This time around, the number of answers seems to slowly start to exceed that of new questions, and those answers do make […]