Academ's Fury (Codex Alera, Book 2)
by Jim Butcher
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Author: Jim ButcherEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-11-28
ISBN: 0441013406
Number of pages: 720
Publisher: Ace
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- ISBN13: 9780441013401
- Condition: New
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Book Reviews of Academ's Fury (Codex Alera, Book 2)
Book Review: A Hero Grows
Summary: 4 Stars
In this second book of Jim Butcher's Codex Alera series, the reader can enjoy lots of well blocked out battles of various kinds and be swept up in the action of Jim Butcher's well-contrived fantasy world, inhabited by a diversity of magical creatures and people.
Jim Butcher is a fine fantasy writer who does a lot of things right with this series. He has an unusual fantasy world modeled not on Europe in the Middle Ages but on Imperial Rome, where powerful magicians control elemental spirits of water, air, wood, fire and earth. Not Tavi--our engaging young hero who lights the page whenever he's there. Tavi, so far unable to control a fury, must make do with his wits and courage--and thereby hangs the fascination of the tale.
Butcher gives us a solidly interwoven story in this delightful book, following Tavi in the Capital, struggling to keep up with his studies even as he runs errands, hunts for a thief and deflects plots against his patron, while his uncle faces an invasion of unearthly beings out in the countryside. In the meantime, Tavi's aunt makes a choice that will have consequences for the future.
The one thing that doesn't quite hang together for me is the status of women in this fantasy world. Butcher gives us such strong female characters and then states that there are laws that give women unequal status--this doesn't jive in a world where a woman could wield magic that is as powerful as a man's. And we know that that is possible because of the marvelous scene where Lady Aquitaine strolls into the palace and takes command of the Imperial Guard. I'm thinking that a law that mandated such a woman into having children would somehow fail to be enforced. However, I don't entirely mind the feeling that as a reader, Butcher is simply my guide in a world he is discovering as we go along. It's a fun journey and so far Butcher has kept the torch burning.
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