
Isolate
A Novel in the Grand Illusion
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Michael Bower
L. E. Modesitt, Jr., best-selling author of The Mongrel Mage, has a brand-new gaslamp political fantasy: Isolate.
Industrialization. Social unrest. Underground movements. Government corruption and surveillance.
Something is about to give.
Steffan Dekkard is an isolate, one of the small percentage of people who are immune to the projections of empaths. As an isolate, he has been trained as a security specialist, and he and his security partner Avraal Ysella, a highly trained empath, are employed by Axel Obreduur, a senior Craft Minister and the de facto political strategist of his party.
When a respected Landor Councilor dies of “heart failure” at a social event, because of his political friendship with Obreduur, Dekkard and Ysella find that not only is their employer a target, but so are they, in a covert and deadly struggle for control of the government and economy.
Steffan is about to understand that everything he believed is an illusion.
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Critic reviews
“Delicious with intrigue and artful revelations, Modesitt’s Isolate comes at you with top-drawer worldbuilding and compelling characters. Here we have a hot new gaslamp world fraught with political machinations that will keep you up reading into the night. Modesitt has always been great, so how does he keep getting better? Read Isolate and find out.” (Peter Orullian, author of The Unremembered)
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This book is before anything else before it's a fantasy book before its steam punk noire it is a political thriller. They did a great job of making the issues of industrialization parallel to our modern-day issues of autotimization. They also approach Issues of crony capitalism in a way that feels like it could have been happening in the senate in the antibellum days all the way up to the present.
Low magic, Low steampunk, High politics.
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Hooray
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gripping novel
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Who the hell is speaking?
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Steampunk political thriller w/ a dash of romance
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I enjoyed this book. I would recommend it to anyone who has read the first three Imager novels like I did. It feels very reminiscent of that trilogy in a lot of ways.
Some may not like the way that the mundane lifestyle of the characters are very forward facing. However, as in the first three Imager novels, that slow burn intrigue was done with great purpose. It expanded my own viewpoint as a writer of fantasy/science fiction to include things that aren’t the norm.
I especially enjoyed how female characters have agency, depth, and opinions. They make moves that force the world toward inevitable progress, even if kicking and screaming the whole way.
I wondered how Mr. Modesitt Jr. would handle the Mentor/Student dynamic, and I say I’m good with it.
The romance subplot was enjoyable even if a foregone conclusion from its inception.
I’ve already pre-ordered the second book. August can’t come fast enough.
Well worth the read if you’re a fan!
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As always delivered with detail and wit,
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Slow story to begin with; but worth it!
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my gripe is with the pacing, and the narration.
I started this in the winter of '22, and had to keep putting it down because the narrator doesn't differentiate voices well, or give enough of a pause between sentences and paragraphs, to let your brain absorb what's been said. pair that with the dense material and trying to figure out the weird phrasings of mundane things given different names...
but. here we are in the early summer of '24 and I've finally finished it.
maybe the next two books will be a little better.
more than a year.
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Fantastic Story Telling
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