Fantasy Book Club discussion

I finished reading this fantastic book one of an 18 book+ epic fantasy—The Saga of Recluce. It's a June group read for one of my groups. I like it a lot and want to continue, but have all these big piles of books I've not yet read. What to do?

Any advice from those who've read the whole series?

I loved Magic of Recluse too, but I quit reading after the 4th or 5th book in the series because I felt the quality began to ebb. None were as good as the original, in my opinion, and Magic Engineer is Magic of Recluse in disguise. However, that was a while ago, and perhaps its time to try again. If he wrote one as good as the first, maybe there are other gems in the series.

I'm going to try a few more to see if Larris grows up at all. I have a feeling it's character driven which I like.

I enjoyed them, I just can never get over my dislike of Modesitt hopping between characters. I like my series to maintain the story. At least for a while you could piece his stuff together in a timeline easily, but with his new stuff it won't work until more books are out. It has kept me from reading his more recent books. I like individual characters not the overall story per say that he does.

If you are unsure read up to book 3-4 and see how you like the universe. It is pretty nice and the characters he writes about are never actually bad, just maybe a little overused for being different people.