Academ’s Fury
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In Furies of Calderon, bestselling leader Jim Butcher introduced readers to a world where the forces of scenery take physical form. But now, it’s human scenery that threatens to throw the realm into chaos.
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I and my wife have fully loved Butchers’s Dresden Files series. Since I rate them as some of the best books I have read I thought this series would also be as excellent. I was incorrect. I couldn’t get past the first 2 chapters of either of the two books in this series. Mr. Butcher, please stick to what your excellent at and continue with the Dresdan series. You can’t be a Tolkein, so just be a Butcher.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Jim Butchers’ writing is captivating any of his books is a must read.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Again like the first book Jim makes a clunky, and very hard to read book. Again entire ‘thoughts’ or tale lines are disjointed as he breaks them at high points and takes you way back to another character. Also, I feel I am reading a book based on many different tales. The southern cities against the northern cities in a possible civil war with the Dianic League of the north (women’s rights, equality) and the Slaver’s Alliance of the south (enough said). The three college children againts three bullies (Harry potter anyone?). I could go on about different tale plots finding their way into this novel. I have more than once thrown the book down out of frustration and sworn to write Jim a grave letter or two. In the end but, I till read through it and will buy the next one because no matter how terrible the tale is strung together and stolen from additional areas it is excellent and I will give Jim that.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
This book is nothing to be proud of; it takes a fantastic premise and structure, then meanders through a bunch of sub-plots which feature supposedly very clever protagonists getting dumfounded by foolish evil “gambits”.
Much of the novel (as with the first) is spent building up PC “straw men” stereotypes to despise – garnished by a grand villain stolen from the Halo X-Box game.
Perhaps the only novel I have ever ripped up and thrown out, both because of its glacial pacing and a vast number over-engineered plot twists which occupy characters getting blind sided inways which imply they’ve gone brain-dead first.
Cursors have to be the most INEFFECTUAL super-spy confidential agents I’ve ever read about. I’m sure that wasn’t an proposed effect – and that lack of intention troubles me.
Butcher can do better – and rather than being a fencing/ martial arts afficionado, he just might be better off learning bit more about persons subjects.
What a sad waste of a potentially fantastic plot and set of characters.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Similar to various parallel plots in FURIES OF CALDERON, we find three acquiescent plots in ACADEM’S FURY: Amara & Bernard’s struggle against a virulent “vord” queen out in the country and their serialized romantic plight (this time, surrounding marriage and children), Isana’s journey to Alera’s “capital” Alera Imperia to meet with the First Lord and question for his aid on her brother’s Count Bernard’s behalf, and finally, seventeen year-ancient Tavi’s continuing maturation as page to First Lord Gaius and his evolution as an Academ studying at the Citadel in Alera Imperia. Of these three disparate and dislodge plots, I establish Isana’s the most engaging (again) as enemies from the past realign their alliances for political gain. I establish Amara’s storyline the most taxing to read. Like tall, dark and handsome rogues in past romance, Bernard and Tavi’s friend Max symbolizes sexual eye candy for the female readership, and Amara renews her ardor for Bernard’s strong physique. Like an vexing serial, Amara at first confronts Isana regarding Isana’s resentment towards Amara, then grapples with her inability to give Bernard children, struggling to part with Bernard when the Pointer Serai comments that Amara must inevitably place Bernard. From a pure entertainment standpoint, I most loved Tavi’s capture of the mysterious thief “Black Cat” and their subsequent breach of the impregnable Grey Tower to liberate his friend Max. Also like FURIES OF CALDERON, the ending here in ACADEM’S FURY exaggerates the theatrics from different perspectives and two locales like a soap opera (Amara’s perspective out near Aricholt in the country and Tavi’s perspective in Alera Imperia). Like the previous installment, the seemingly innocuous Fade showcases his mastery with the sword at the end, this time against 9-foot tall Canim creatures (we learn more about Fade’s history also). The book crosses its t’s and dots its i’s in order to accommodate a role for every character from Tavi’s tiny friend Ehren to Captain Miles. ACADEM’S FURY throws 17 year-ancient Tavi a bone in the finale when he must battle an injured Canim all by himself while a bruised and battle-weary Amara dispenses of a vord queen by herself. Despite threats to Tavi, Amara and Bernard, I never once felt like they were really going to die. I thought Lady Aquitaine’s impressive exhibition of power at the very end overshadowed everything else.
One of the huge reasons to read SFF and past fiction – world building and prose – disappointed in ACADEM’S FURY. Although the prose and world building in FURIES OF CALDERON wasn’t fantastic, it deteriorates tremendously here in ACADEM’S FURY. The people, creatures, world, society and magic of Alera never felt real. A excellent SFF book describes its fictional magic, world and people so it feels and seems real. ACADEM’S FURY failed in this respect. Maybe it was just me, but reading Tavi’s tale, I felt like I was back in high school fighting a tough or back in college cramming for final exams. Reading Amara’s storyline, I felt like I was was reading a potboiler romance. Random and seemingly arbitrary rules for the vord creatures exacerbates the reading experience. For example, each vord queen multiplies exactly three times (something simply known from Marat folklore), and there exists a hierarchy of vord from the queen to Keepers, to Takers, to Warriors. The Marat barbarian Doroga relays most of the vorg mythology via conversation. I thought ACADEM’S FURY consistently violated the cardinal sin in storytelling by telling us as a replacement for of showing us. Fancy names and titles like Expert didn’t change my feeling that all of this is just too fake. Amara even uses the axiom, “We will agree to disagree…” in a conversation with Isana once. In various conversations, the book further clarifies how country furies are more powerful than city furies (the rural vs. urban aspect). We as readers know the SFF tale isn’t real, but the base quality of the world building and conversationalist prose in ACADEM’S FURY mar the entire reading experience.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5