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Thick as it is, the 15th Recluce novel is actually just the second half of the story that began with Natural Ordermage (2007), in which young Rahl was exiled from Recluce because he couldn't control his passions or considerable magical talents. Now on the much larger island of Hamor, where magicians work for the government, he resentfully receives the protection and training he needs from older mage-guard Taryl, who never seems satisfied even with Rahl's best efforts. More serious tests follow when the emperor's brother leads a revolt and Rahl is sent off with the troops. As he endures a long military campaign—with readers feeling they've slogged along with him through detailed descriptions of crops, architecture and weather—Rahl realizes that order isn't quite the same thing as good, and chaos isn't necessarily evil. Watching him learn to work within this complicated system and decide what's important makes the dolorous trek worthwhile. (July)
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Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Praise for Mage-Guard of Hamor:
“Mage-Guard measures up well to Modesitt at his best.”
--Booklist
“Fans of Modesitt’s Recluce books will likely love this latest addition to the series…..Rahl is a well-crafted protagonist with believable reactions to the world around him, and the high level of ordinary detail describing Hamor and Recluce never gets in the way of the story.”
--Romantic Times BOOKreviews
“The sequel to Natural Ordermage explores a new part of Modesitt’s world and once again displays the author’s abilities to tell stories that shine with the veracity of everyday life as well as momentous events.”
--Library Journal
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4.0 out of 5 stars
The Mage Guard of Hamor,
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This review is from: Mage-Guard of Hamor (Hardcover)
Another entry in the long running and very well written Recluce series. This one opens the potential for a whole new set of stories based on Hamor. The only real weakness is the common theme it shares with the other books of the series. The hero starts as an outsider, is exiled, develops his talents under pressure (usually military) and becomes a dominant mage. Horatio Alger lives! Given the predictability, the stories entrance and engage and I strongly recommend this one.
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Best Recluce novel in a long, long time.,
By Robert Janney - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Mage-Guard of Hamor (Hardcover)
Mage-Guard of Hamor is one of Modesitt's best works to date. He continues Rahl's story in a believable and enthralling fashion & his supporting characters have great depth and their own enticing backstories and intriguing motivations. The exact nature of the final conflict and its resolution were reasonably difficult to predict until just before the events. Even then, the resolution had a few interesting surprises and the epilogue offers its own little twist.The main character Rahl is believably flawed and slowly matures over the course of the book. Rahl's maturation is done in a great variety of ways that are gradual enough to feel realistic yet quick enough to keep pacing steady and lend urgency to the plot. While there are certainly surface similarities between Rahl and Lorn from Modesitt's Cyador duology, I found that the vastly different political structure, Rahl's status as an immigrant, the nature of the campaign and the presence of a guiding mentor lead to a completely different story. Rahl's mentor Taryl is one of my favorite supporting characters in any Recluse book. I found his backstory to be fascinating and the way he keeps Rahl (and the reader) somewhat in the dark will make you want to keep turning pages very late into the night! Partially because of the greater attention and detail on a mentor than other Recluce books, Mage-Guard is longer than typical of Modesitt, but I found that the pages were well filled. Modesitt also reveals much about Hamorian customs, food, and general life in the book. He depicts a variety of cities and rural areas within Hamor as well as the seat of government itself. He blends this quite well with the military campaign, never stopping the flow of things to gush Hamorian history but doling out enough to give a lush backdrop to the events of Mage-Guard. 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best sub-series of the Recluse series.,
By Michael McGlothlin - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Mage-Guard of Hamor (Mass Market Paperback)
Natural Ordermage and Mage-Guard of Hamor form the best sub-series of the already great Recluse series. The depth of the characters is richer than ever and the continued mix of chaos and order mages as well as characters from different lands and cultures is amazing. The growth of the main character is so real as he struggles through teen angst and on into adulthood is very well developed and often touching while remaining interesting. Friendship, love, betrayal, magic, and martial combat are all here.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
A few thoughts to consider...,
By Matthew Spivey - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Mage-Guard of Hamor (Mass Market Paperback)
Well; I've read every single book in the Recluce saga (And yes, it's Recluce with a C not with an S like some people keep placing in their reviews, making me question exactly how closely they paid attention to the details in the book at all...) and I have to say that this was neither disappointing nor was it spectacular."Mage-Guard of Hamor" is, to be honest, exactly the same as every other story in the Saga itself. It fits well with what you've come to enjoy from the Recluce Saga, but it will not make any large impact either way on whether or not you enjoy the Author and this Saga. I dare not call it a "series" since he never includes more than 2 stories with the same characters (which is unusual in Fantasy.) But what he does is write about different unique and important times in the development of the World of Recluce. Mage-Guard of Hamor is no exception to his standard writing formula, in which there is a book full of build up, and a rather quick resolution. This book did, to me, seem overly similar to the Scion of Cyador novel from earlier in the Saga... I do not write this to dissuade anybody from purchasing or reading this novel... If you enjoy the Saga, you will enjoy this novel as well, and if you enjoy this you'll enjoy the other books in the Saga as well. And of course, since it's the last Recluce book the Author will work on for a short time (according to his website) you may as well get caught up. Yet, as someone else wrote before, I would suggest -STARTING- the Saga elsewhere. The Colors "duo" and Cyador "duo" are great. If you wish to start from "the beginning" of the Saga, you would have to start reading as follows: Magi'i of Cyador, Scion of Cyador, Fall of Angels, The Chaos Balance, The Towers of the Sunset... etc. I believe that these stories (including Colors of Chaos, Wellspring of Chaos and Magic Engineer) are the only real "meat" to the Saga, and the rest seems to exploit the same formula without much real change... But all things considered, it is a snug fit for "Mage-Guard..." in the rest of the Saga, which it should be! |
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