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    Heritage of Cyador
    Heritage of Cyador
    Heritage of Cyador
    Audiobook23 hours

    Heritage of Cyador

    Written by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

    Narrated by Kirby Heyborne

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    About this audiobook

    Scarcely a year after the events of Cyador's Heirs, Lerial uses his mastery of Order and Chaos, the competing natural forces that shape his world and define the magic that exists within it, to utterly destroy an Afritan military force crossing into Cigoerne.

    Five years later, Lerial, now an overcaptain and a field commander of Cigoerne's Mirror Lancers, must lead three companies of troops into Afrit on a mission of mutual interest: neighboring Heldya is threatening to invade Afrit, and if that nation falls, Cigoerne is certain to be next.

    The mission is both delicate and dangerous; Lerial's value in the effort to repel Heldya is undeniable, but his troubled history against Afrit may reopen old wounds that will never truly heal.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJan 27, 2015
    ISBN9781494570149
    Heritage of Cyador
    Author

    L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

    L. E. Modesitt, Jr., is the bestselling author of the fantasy series The Saga of Recluce, Corean Chronicles, and the Imager Portfolio. His science fiction includes Adiamante, the Ecolitan novels, the Forever Hero Trilogy, and Archform: Beauty. Besides a writer, Modesitt has been a U.S. Navy pilot, a director of research for a political campaign, legislative assistant and staff director for a U.S. Congressman, Director of Legislation and Congressional Relations for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a consultant on environmental, regulatory, and communications issues, and a college lecturer. He lives in Cedar City, Utah.

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    • 3/5
      This one goes back in time a bit before the founding of Hamor, after Cyador's fall. A last remnant of Cyador society exists as a dukedom on the continent of Hamor, and one of its mage-wizards must defend a nearby duchy against another. This is very typical of a Recluse novel, its the second book about a mage/wizard with a somewhat unique spin on the usual powers who must fight a war against multiple chaos-wizards nearly single handed. While this is fairly well written, its its from the point of view of just one character. Unfortunately, the author uses the limited self- and situation knowledge of the character to good extent, which means the characters always seem to blunder from situation to situation, rather than doing so in any kind of informed way. This works for a while, then just seems to feel like the character is being dragged around by the story, not that the character is creating the story. The emphasis on limited self-knowledge also makes the characters still and two dimensional.
    • 4/5
      The ending was not what I expected (in a good way). I thought at first this was going to be more than a 2 book hero story in the recluse series. Enjoyed it as always.
    • 5/5
      The second part of the duology in the Recluce series. It gives us a conclusion to what our hero has trained for and learned in the first, and what his parents generation has been maneuvering for politically as well. It is a great way to put this mini history, as Modesitt likes to give us, of what has happened in his fantasy world. The 18th book I believe and if you like to see how these tales come together, this is one of the ones that works.Provided you have read the first book. I am not sure how well they all stand alone, but this and its predecessor, Cyador's Heirs, work very well together. The first, in a country that has a couple of very heavy handed neighbors, has forced our hero to grow beyond his years, which we often find in a Recluce tale. Our hero seems far more equipped for the life of a soldier and a fighter, than men twice his age in a kingdom with ten times the military, but with wars on Recluce and Chaos and Order magic pairing off, hundreds and thousands can die in the course of a battle.Knowing that, one should expect every army to prepare, and yet always, there are armies that do not. So our hero, a precious resource in such battles emerges as ever more important having the lacking skill of his allies. And of course, there is also the princess we first met in a prologue in book one.By the Epilogue of book 2, this makes for a part of the series that is worth that reread.