Academ's Fury (Codex Alera Series #2) by Jim Butcher

BUY IT NEW

  • Limited Time Offer! Everyone receives the Member Price on books.
    See Details
  • This item is currently out of stock.
  • Add To List uiAction=GetAllLists&page=List&pageType=list&ean=9780441012831&productCode=BK&maxCount=100&threshold=3

BUY IT USED

10 copies from $35.00

See All Available

(Hardcover)

  • Pub. Date: July 2005
  • 480pp

    Reader Rating: (38 ratings)

    Detailed Rating: "Thrilling" See All

    More Formats 
    Available in eBook$7.99
    Mass Market Paperback - Reprint$7.99
    Compact Disc - Unabridged$47.45
    MP3 Book - Unabridged$29.00
    Buy it Used: 10 copies from $35.00 See All Available

    Customers who bought this also bought

     
    • Overview
    • Editorial Reviews
    • Customer Reviews
    • Features

    Product Details

    • Pub. Date: July 2005
    • Publisher: Ace Hardcover
    • Format: Hardcover, 480pp

    Synopsis

    For one thousand years, the people of Alera have united against the aggressive and threatening races that inhabit the world, using their unique bond with the Furies--elementals of Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and Metal. But now, the unity of the Alerians hangs in precarious balance. The First Lord of Alera has fallen in his efforts to protect his people from the vicious attacks of their enemies. Now, the fate of the Alerians lies in the hands of Tavi, a young man who must use all of his courage and resourcefulness to save his people.

    Publishers Weekly

    Best known for his Harry Dresden fantasy noir novels (Dead Beat, etc.), bestseller Butcher shows he's equally adept at epic fantasy in the second Codex Alera book. Two years after the events of Furies of Calderon (2004), the First Lord of Alera, Gaius Sextus, struggles to control a realm facing growing border troubles and civil strife as High Lords scheme to advance their own causes. Fortunately, Gaius has loyal supporters such as his nephew Tavi, now a 17-year-old Academ, a student of Alera Imperial's great Academy, who also serves as Gaius's page and is secretly training to become a Cursor, one of the First Lord's elite spies. Then Gaius falls ill, leaving those closest to him, including Tavi, desperate to keep his weakness secret. With Cursors being murdered, an ancient menace known as the "vord" heading for the capital and civil war on the horizon, Tavi has his work cut out for him. Butcher skillfully weaves in the necessary back story without slowing the pace. Solid world-building, intriguing characters and vivid action make this a solid addition to a marvelously entertaining series. Agent, Jennifer Jackson at DMLA. (July 5) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

    More Reviews and Recommendations

    Biography

    Jim Butcher is a full-time writer who lives in Independence, Missouri, with his wife, son, and ferocious guard dog.

    More About the Author

    Customer Reviews

    Come for the Worldbuilding, stay for the charactersby Jvstin

    Reader Rating:
    See Detailed Ratings

    August 07, 2009: Academ's Fury is the second novel in the Codex Alera sequence by Jim Butcher. Although he is far more well known for the Dresden Files novels, here in the second book of the Codex Alera series, he starts to really show he can do epic fantasy too.

    The novel takes place some time after the events of the first novel. Tavi, as promised in the conclusion of the first novel, is now a student at the Academy in the capital city, and serves Gaius Sextus, the ruler of Alera, as a page.

    The political threats that ring Gaius threaten to draw Tavi in, especially given his relocation to the heart of the Empire. And then there is a mysterious rising of strange creatures in the north that threaten his uncle Bernard and his lover, the cursor Amara, and the Marat as well. And then there are the savage Canim, who through their Embassy are clearly up to something...

    As ably as he showed the pastoral Calderon Valley, in this novel, the partial change of venue (although there are plenty of scenes in this novel too) to the city shows good worldbuilding, and a whole host of new characters, intrigues and venues.

    The old characters grow and develop, too. Tavi, Kitai, Amara, Bernard and even Gaius are not set in stone, but grow and change. Come for the world building, stay for the characters and their personal stories.

    The appetite that was whetted by listening to the first novel has only been fueled by this one. Readers of the first novel will definitely want to read this one. And, probably like me, will want to read the third one in short order.

    SUPER AWESOME!by Anonymous

    Reader Rating:
    See Detailed Ratings

    September 26, 2006: this is a great book with a great story line. this book as very hard to put down and left you wanting more. i can't wait for the third one to come out


    More Customer Reviews