2021 book 41

 Katharine Kerr’s The Gold Falcon

The fourth subseries in the larger Deverry Cycle starts off fifty years after the previous book, and of course some of our longer-lived characters are still going strong, while others have been reincarnated and are getting to know each other, are relearning their skills, etc (I was very invested in all of that, and in how their souls have actually learned from the past!). Of course now there's a weird cult infiltrating things, leading to yet more war, and there’s some dragon drama, so it’s not all scribing and romantic plotting. Looks like there’s gonna be a major and long war in the follow up books, but I remain much more interested in the sorcery half of swords-and-sorcery. A/A-.