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The biggest part of the story takes place in the capitol of ‘Alera’ and its main castle. The thing I really disliked is the lack of world building. But in this story it was unrealistically overdone and out of balance. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t have anything against strong female characters and I do certainly enjoy reading about underdogs getting to where they deserve to be by hardship, it doesn't matter if that is a girl or a guy. In this book there are multiple story lines again, varying from a potentially apocalyptic alien take-over to a feminist ‘political’. Well, not completely in this story but it is actually not that far off. It does sound a bit cliché but sometimes when questions are answered only more arise. That in itself is certainly not a bad thing, Butcher always manages to create a story that drags me in its fast current and delivers quite the flash.Īnother positive thing was that some of my questions that arose after reading the first book were answered. The story starts and is filled with non-stop action. But for me it just didn't work as it was supposed to.

Perhaps a little too high, because there were quite a few points that bothered me a bit.Īnyway… I had high expectations for book two, ‘Furies of Calderon’ as it did have the potential to be the start of a great series. ‘Furies of Calderon’ I grudgingly gave a pretty high 7.2. (Oct.‘Academ’s Fury’ is the second book in ‘The Codex Alera’ series. Agent, Jennifer Jackson at Donald Maass Literary Agency. This page-turner bodes well for future volumes. , etc.) does a thorough job of world building, to say nothing of developing his action scenes with an abundance of convincing detail.

Thinking that Amara is an escaping slave, Tavi decides to help her and is immediately sucked in over his head into a morass of intrigues, military, magical and otherwise.

She encounters a troubled young man, Tavi, who has hitherto been concerned mostly with the vividly depicted predatory "herdbanes" that threaten his sheep as well as with his adolescent sexual urges (handled tastefully). Amara, a young female spy, and her companion, Odiana, go into some of the land's remoter territories to discover if military commander Atticus Quentin is a traitor-another classic trope from ancient Rome. Fortunately, Alera has magical defenses, involving the furies or elementals of water, earth, air, fire and metal, that protect against foes both internal and external.

At the start of Butcher's absorbing fantasy, the first in a new series, the barbarians are at the gates of the land of Alera, which has a distinct flavor of the Roman Empire (its ruler is named Quintus Sextus and its soldiers are organized in legions).