Plus, this book has a lot of mixed reviews among my friends. Some of us don't do well with that sort of thing, you know?! Even the name Codex Alera is just.?Įhhhhh? Seemed like there would be too much funky Lord of the Rings y world-building for a fantasy-lite reader like myself.
I've been reading Butcher's urban fantasy series, Dresden Files for a long time now, but I've avoided reading his Codex Alera stuff because it sounded too weird for me. In fact, I'm not even sure what makes something high fantasy. (Oct.I don't really read a lot of high fantasy. Agent, Jennifer Jackson at Donald Maass Literary Agency. This page-turner bodes well for future volumes. , etc.) does a thorough job of world building, to say nothing of developing his action scenes with an abundance of convincing detail. Thinking that Amara is an escaping slave, Tavi decides to help her and is immediately sucked in over his head into a morass of intrigues, military, magical and otherwise. She encounters a troubled young man, Tavi, who has hitherto been concerned mostly with the vividly depicted predatory "herdbanes" that threaten his sheep as well as with his adolescent sexual urges (handled tastefully).
Amara, a young female spy, and her companion, Odiana, go into some of the land's remoter territories to discover if military commander Atticus Quentin is a traitor-another classic trope from ancient Rome. Fortunately, Alera has magical defenses, involving the furies or elementals of water, earth, air, fire and metal, that protect against foes both internal and external.
At the start of Butcher's absorbing fantasy, the first in a new series, the barbarians are at the gates of the land of Alera, which has a distinct flavor of the Roman Empire (its ruler is named Quintus Sextus and its soldiers are organized in legions).
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