Storm Front by Jim Butcher
Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files series has been on my radar for years, so when the first book in the series popped up as a Kindle Daily Deal I pounced. A pandemic seemed like a great time for an overdue dive into a highly rated series that ticks so many of my boxes – fantasy, crime, humour, and many more to look forward to. I’m sorry to say I was not impressed. What ticked me off the most was the gender politics. Maybe it was so […]
Proven Guilty by Jim Butcher
White Night by Jim Butcher
Trying so hard to finish up my Cannonball this year, so I’m hitting up my backlog of unreviewed books for the year. I read some (actually, SO MANY) great books that I just never got around to reviewing, and while perusing the list, I figured you can never go wrong with a little Harry Dresden/James Marsters action. What follows is not really a review…its seems to be more like my random thoughts about these two books, as it has been a while since I listened […]
First Lord's Fury by Jim Butcher
The final book in the Codex Alera does a great job of tying up all of the plot lines without tripping up and also continues the job of changing your perception of what you thought you knew already. Tavi is aware that his grandfather has died as the Great Fury Alera has visited him and is making him (and Kitai) undergo training from hell on their journey home to Alera. This is so when they arrive Tavi is prepared to deal with the realities of […]
Princeps Fury by Jim Butcher
In this, the fifth book of the Codex Alera, the cat is out of the bag following Tavi’s declaration of himself as Gaius Octavian. To protect him and to build alliances his grandfather supports Tavi helping to return the Canim invaders to their homeland. This protection is both from the increasing Vord activity in Alera and the usual Aleran politics that would see him dead. This time we have more than 2 plots as Tavi’s newly honoured mother Isana (regarded as the First Lady of […]
Captains Fury by Jim Butcher
On to the fourth book in the Codex Alera and we are in a situation where Tavi is fighting a holding battle against the Canim invaders, and the realm is doing the same against the forces of High Lord Kalare. Obviously things go wrong… Tavi is tricked into losing command and facing charges of treason when a Senator in the pay of the Aquitanes is given oversight of his forces. Tavi will not kill Alerans who are just trying to survive behind enemy lines, but […]
