Paperback, 512 pages
English language
Published Nov. 24, 2008 by Ace.
After two years of bitter conflict with the hordes of invading Canim, Tavi of Calderon, now Captain of the First Aleran Legion, realizes that a peril far greater than the Canim exists-the mysterious threat that drove the savage Canim to flee their homeland. Now, Tavi must find a way to overcome the centuries-old animosities between Aleran and Cane if an alliance is to be forged against their mutual enemy. And he must lead his legion in defiance of the law, against friend and foe--or no one will have a chance of survival . . .
The world and character building across this series is pretty darn spiffing. This one had a lot of David Weber flavor to some of the action sequences as well, which I rather enjoyed.
Me da la impresión de que es un libro intermedio porque la trama del libro solo sirve de excusa para poder meter un par de revelaciones útiles y avanzar un poco la general, pero ojalá todos los libros auxiliares fueran como este.
Hail Gaius Octavian! We journey back to Alera, and lots of things happen. To everyone.
Tavi is outed. Kitai still kicks ass, and I love her. Everyone gets character development, and the world grows. If you are reading this series, you obviously love it so I don't need to sell you on how great it is. If you aren't, you shouldn't be reading a review for book 4 in a series, so move along. Nothing for you to see here.
A love letter to Jim Butcher:
Dear Jim,
Alera is my favorite place, and you are my favorite author. I love you. Not in a scary stalker, wear your face as a mask way, but in a let's be best friends and have coffee and you can tell me all of your book ideas kind of way.
P.S. Please don't contact the authorities, I am harmless. But let's be best …
Hail Gaius Octavian! We journey back to Alera, and lots of things happen. To everyone.
Tavi is outed. Kitai still kicks ass, and I love her. Everyone gets character development, and the world grows. If you are reading this series, you obviously love it so I don't need to sell you on how great it is. If you aren't, you shouldn't be reading a review for book 4 in a series, so move along. Nothing for you to see here.
A love letter to Jim Butcher:
Dear Jim,
Alera is my favorite place, and you are my favorite author. I love you. Not in a scary stalker, wear your face as a mask way, but in a let's be best friends and have coffee and you can tell me all of your book ideas kind of way.
P.S. Please don't contact the authorities, I am harmless. But let's be best friends. Call me!
By now I think I can safely say I love this series. If I was to be nitpicky there are places where my disbelief is suspended over chasms a bit deep, but with the sturdy suspension bridge of my enjoyment there's no danger of falling, so the depths don't matter. And the books have been excellent company the recent days when well enough to read them, but ill enough not to put them down and do something work-like.
Butcher builds up seemingly insurmountable difficulties against our heroes in each book, and the solutions, when they're revealed, are elegant and (to me at least) delightfully surprising.
next up, princeps fury
I love this series, but this book has the single greatest moment of the series in it. Just read it, you will know.
