About this title: From the bestselling creator of the Dresden Files series. When treachery fromwithin destroys the armys command structure, young Tavi finds himself leadingan inexperienced, poorly equipped legion--the only force standing between theCanim horde and the war-torn realm.
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Ace Books
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780441015474ISBN:0441015476
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Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Ace Books
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780441015474ISBN:0441015476
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 544 p. Codex Alera (Paperback), 3. Audience: General/trade. read more
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Edition: Reprint
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: ACE CHARTER
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780441015474ISBN:0441015476
Description: New. From the bestselling creator of the Dresden Files series. When treachery fromwithin destroys the armys command structure, young Tavi finds himself leadingan inexperienced, poorly equipped legion--the only force standing between theCanim horde and the... read more
"Holy freakin' wow. My love affair with Jim Butcher's The Codex Alera series continues with Cursor's Fury. This story picks up two years after the second book in the series, Academ's Fury, where life in Alera has settled somewhat back into the normal routines of political intrigue and espionage. Tavi is continuing to not only survive but thrive in a world where most people consider him to be a freak because he has no furies of his own to control.
However, its this lack of furies that makes Tavi into the man that he is. He has had to learn to use other methods in order to deal with the dangers that surround him. To rely on his wits to get him through tense and difficult situations when those around him might simply fly away.
In the third installment Tavi is sent to a remote region of the country by the First Lord. Gaius Sextus knows that trouble, in the form of High Lord Kalare, is brewing and wants to get Tavi out of the way. Instead he ends up sending Tavi deep into the heart of the lions den. For at the same time that High Lord Kalare is making his play for the thrown, a host of ferocious Canim warriors have begun to invade and their path will take them straight through the legion camp where Tavi is stationed. The odds seem impossible - sixty thousand Canim against one legion of rag tag warriors made up of all the counties in the realm.
Butcher has a talent for taking the tension that exists on the battle field and bringing it to life on the page. The idea that one false step could mean the death of thousands. Butcher also has a diabolical sense of creating suspense. Knowing just the right moment to cut away from the action to look in on one of his other principal characters. Forcing the reader to want to turn the pages faster to get back there where he left off.....needing to know what happens next with Tavi, or Isana, or Amara and Bernard.
Part of what I loved so much about this story is that Butcher continues to develop Tavi's character. In Cursor's Fury, he is far from the boy that he was in Furies of Calderon and this is shown through his thought process. His thoughts are well detailed and thought out. He considers all the angles and often manages to find the path that is so crazy and unimaginable that it just has to work. And while doing so he manages to create a loyal following and create unity in a place that none thought possible.
"Still really enjoyed the story, but it seems to me that the author is getting sloppy, or being rushed.
I wish the author would stop doing completely irritating chapter cliff hangers. Also character development could be a bit smoother and for my own personal taste a bit faster.
Oh well, I'm very much looking forward to the next one. Just keeping my expectations in check. Reading for the entertaining story at this point."
"I borrowed this and gave it away to a customer before i was finished, and when the new copy took a while to come in and i couldn't find it after it did, i was exceedingly cross. So obviously, i enjoyed it. I found this less compelling than the second one though. Maybe because of one pretty lame plot strand, and maybe because the back cover spoils most of the plot... Why would you do that, publisher? Why.
(spoilers)
Then again the TITLE of the fifth book is a spoiler, and not just in the sense of what you can probably guess by the end of the first book.
Also I wish everything didn't resolve itself so neatly. Things pretty much work out in the end 'against all odds' without any really major characters dying. Plenty of people bite it in grim fashion, but only one with a name so far in three books that i was surprised by."
"Book three in the Codex Alera series surpasses the previous two by miles. Cursor's Fury introduces an Aleran empire still reeling from the destruction of their foes, the Vord. Newly appointed Cursor, Tavi, is put into the legions as Rufus Scipio, a young officer fresh out of the academy and green. He is quickly introduced to a marauding horde of Canim warriors that easily outnumbers his own troops and is forced into the action by the hand of his enemies.
Meanwhile, a rebellion is growing in the southern reaches of Alera, that threatens to tear apart the empire, spawned hand-in-hand with the Canim invaders. It is a race against time to push back the wolf-warriors and quell the rebellion.
Two more characters are introduced in this book in strong supporting roles to Tavi, and previous characters are developed into further detail, breathing more life into this story then the previous two books. Full of action and conflict, the story is sure to leave the reader wondering, "what's next?" or "how will he get out of THIS mess?""
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