Don’t annoy him, he’ll tear you to pieces, assuming his wife Thana Livia the wind fury doesn’t get there first.

The Pokemon allusions are clearer here than in the other books, but one I particularly like is Garados, the malevolent earth fury that inhabits the mountain near to Tavi’s home, the Calderon Valley.

Furies being the elemental Pokemon beings that everyone gets in their early teens. In Furies of Calderon, we meet Tavi, literally the only Aleran in the entire world who doesn’t have a fury to his name. There’s a civil war brewing because the First Lord of Alera, Gaius Sextus, is getting old and his one and only heir, Septimus, was killed in battle against a horde of barbarians known as the Marat fifteen years before, and other ways that will become apparent as the series goes on (there’s a wall and some nasty monsters on the other side for a start), but, Butcher trumps Martin in one important way: THE CODEX DIDN’T TAKE TWENTY SODDING YEARS TO WRITE! It only took six, and he was writing his other series, the paranormal investigation urban fantasy The Dresden Files on the side!īut that’s neither here nor there. It’s remarkably similar in some ways to George RR Martin’s A Song of Ice And Fire series (that’s Game of Thrones for you Unsullied folk who haven’t read the books) in some ways. Butcher, being almost certainly slightly bonkers at the very least, upped the offer. Specifically, “Can a good author turn a bad idea into a good book?” Mr. This six-book series was written, if you can believe it, on a bet.

The third of my favourite authors, Jim Butcher, gets his, quote, “Pokemon meets the Lost Roman Legion”, series opener looked at.

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