Title: Quite good
Product review: Modesitt had a purpose for this book -- he wanted to explain how and why Recluce was settled, and why the black magicians keep the politics they do. This gives the book more substance than the average fantasy book, and I liked it a lot.The author takes things way too fast in the first 50 pages, though, where he'll spend 3/4-page on a fragment of a conversation between characters that haven't been introduced yet, in order to fill in some piece of history. He continues this until his hero gets old enough to control events. My advice: read the first 50 pages fast, pick up the flavor of events, and savor the rest of the book.
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