julianoviana77

I started out reading and was sure that Modesitt had a problem with words. It was as if he were writing with a thesaurus open beside his writing pad (or computer keyboard). It seemed that any time he was ready to write a common word, he seemed to use the most odd choice available in the thesaurus. I complained to my wife. She suffers from my steady comments about books, no matter whether I'm gushing praise or heaping scorn. Well, it turns out that the excess in verbiage was a character's flaw. Another person in the book complained about it. After realizing I wasn't in for thesaurus thrall, I began to relax and also began to get into the story. Some artifact has been found and one political group of the several human cultures, the Comity, wants to explore it. The deeply religious cultures don't want the artifact to be explored or exploited, especially if it makes the Comity stronger and them weaker. The many good characters carry this space opera forward effectively, and the battles don't overpower the thoughtful consideration of humanity divided against itself even though no longer confined to the single home world of Earth.

2022-11-14 17:25