A review by eleanorkonik
Quantum Shadows by L.E. Modesitt Jr.

4.0

I literally have degrees in both religious studies and philosophy and have read everything Modesitt has ever written and his daughter was one of my professors in law school and I still feel like I missed vast swaths of what was going on and being referenced. Reading this made me want to go back with a hardcopy and post-it notes and annotate it. If I had to explain it as a 10 second pitch I would say it's a mashup of Philip Jose Farmer's Riverworld & an intro to world religions textbooks from the perspective of a Rationalist who thinks atheists are ridiculous. It's kind of a screed about how religion is fine until proselytization turns into armed conversion... that goes into a lot of detail about fancy lamb dinners and wine pairings. Which, if you're into the travelogue style isn't a bad thing. But if you were looking for a wham-bang fast-paced adventure you probably weren't picking up a Modesitt book anyway, so that was fine.