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Title: Princeps' Fury
Series: Codex Alera #5
Author: Jim Butcher
Rating: 5 of 5 Stars
Genre: Fantasy
Pages: 350
Words: 153.5K
Series: Codex Alera #5
Author: Jim Butcher
Rating: 5 of 5 Stars
Genre: Fantasy
Pages: 350
Words: 153.5K
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Synopsis:
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From
Wikipedia.com & Me
The
book begins with Octavian negotiating with Captain Demos of the
trading vessel called the Slive, to book passage for Octavian and his
contingent to cross the sea and reach the Canean homeland with Varg.
Meanwhile in Alera, Crown cursor Ehren reports to Gaius about the
Vord having entered Alera and learnt how to furycraft.[2]
Octavian
and the Canean survivors face several storms as they make their way
for the Canim continent. Octavian learns more about the Canean
civilization, which has several tribes with populations in the
millions and also learns the Canim tongue as they prepare to
disembark. Amara and Count Bernand are helping improve the defensive
structures around Calderon Valley, in anticipation of a future Vord
assault. However, they are summoned to an Imperial Council by Gaius
Sextus, First Lord of Alera, for an urgent mission against the Vord.
Gaius
Sextus informs the Council of the threat of the Vord, which was
slowly expanding from the Kalare wasteland. The Vord had overwhelmed
four Imperial legions, leaving no survivors and the croach[check
spelling] was expanding through Alera at an increasing rate. More
than one hundred thousand Aleran freeholders and citizens had been
killed in less than a month. Gaius requests all the High Lords of
Alera to unite their strength and muster all the legions that they
could, so that they could force a big battle against the Vord. Gaius
appoints High Lord Aquitaine as the captain of the military campaign.
The First Lord also meets Countess Amara and Count Bernard and
requests them to go behind the Vord enemy lines on a mission to find
out how the Vord are using furycrafting when they had been unable to
do so.
Amara
and Bernard find out that one of the High Lady's has been taken by
the Vord Queen and that Brencis Kalarus is using his father's slave
collars on Citizens to make them fight for the Vord. They take out
Brencis and without him and his knowledge, the Vord Queen loses the
ability to collar any more Citizens.
Tavi
formulates a plan to take down a Vord Queen in Cania, thus allowing
the surviving Canim to escape to Alera to regroup and plan how to
take back their homeland. His plan fails but Kitai and Varg's backup
plan works perfectly. Everyone escapes on giant ships sculpted from
icebergs.
Isana
is sent north to the Shield Wall to broker a piece with the Icemen so
the Legions guarding the Wall can march South and bolster those
fighting the Vord. She realizes the Icemen are empathetic crafters
and that the whole war has been a gigantic misunderstanding. She
challenges the Lord of the Legions to Juris Macti to force him to
march South. She loses but her standing up to him makes him realize
the truth of her position.
The
Vord overwhelm the Capital City and Gaius destroys the city and all
the surrounding Vord to give the rest of the people a chance to
formulate a way to fight back against the Vord.
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My
Thoughts:
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First off, this review is where I start using the Calibre Page AND
Word count to get my numbers. So while the paperback actually has
close to 700 pages, based on characters per page, it is “only”
350. Which is why I want to include word count, to give a better data
estimate between. Ok, enough of the nerdy stats/data talk.
Man, what do I say? I loved this book and this series? Tavi is the
best hero and everything a proper Hero should be? This is a book of
Ideals triumphing over petty base human'ness even while humanity
reels from blow after blow from the Vord? You can almost hear the
Capital Letters when ideals are discussed or even just acted out? In
short, this is exactly my kind of book.
Self-pitying fools and dunces these characters are not. They have no
time or place for pseudo-philosophizing while calling good evil and
evil good. They have too much to do to drag the reader down into the
cesspit of a self-loathing mind. They don't hate themselves or the
world they live in. They love life and it shows in every action they
take.
There is no despair.
★★★★★
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