Imager’s Battalion is the sixth novel in L.E. Modesitt Jr.’s Imager Portfolio series, and the third one focusing on the life and times of Quaeryt, after Scholarand Princeps. The initial three novels (Imager, Imager’s Challenge and Imager’s Intrigue) had a different protagonist and were also set hundreds of years after Quaeryt’s time, which is, for this author, a typical shift in chronology.
All this to say that this is a review about the sixth book in an ongoing series. If you haven’t read at least the first two Quaeryt novels (and ideally all five preceding novels), you may want to stop reading this review at the end of this paragraph and instead check out my review of Scholar, because it’s hard not to include plot spoilers for earlier books when you’re reviewing a novel like this one. In summary: for readers who are new to the series: it’s excellent, you should absolutely read it, but stop reading here if you want to avoid spoilers.
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