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    First Lord's Fury

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    In the final novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher's acclaimed Codex Alera series, the people of Alera—who use their unique bond with the elementals of earth, air, fire, water, wood, and metal for protection—must face the ultimate conflict…
     
    For Gaius Octavian, life has been one long struggle. Battling ancient enemies, forging new alliances, and confronting the corruption within his own land, he became a legendary man of war and leader of men—and the rightful First Lord of Alera.
     
    Now, the end of all he fought for is close at hand. The brutal, dreaded Vord are on the march, using fear and chaos to turn the Alerans against one another, and forcing those who will not submit to flee to the outer reaches of the realm.
     
    Perhaps for the final time, Gaius Octavian and his legions must stand against the enemies of his people. And it will take all his intelligence, ingenuity, and furycraft to save their world from eternal darkness...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Group
    Release dateNov 24, 2009
    ISBN9781101151518
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    Jim Butcher

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher turned to writing as a career because anything else probably would have driven him insane. He lives mostly inside his own head so that he can write down the conversation of his imaginary friends, but his head can generally be found in Independence, Missouri. 

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    • 4/5
      Quite the cinematic book, once again, and a very fine ending to the series. Enjoyed it a lot, would generally recommend the series to fans of fantasy.

      Also, I want either Blizzard or the people behind the Final Fantasy movies to make this into a movie. I'd totally watch that.
    • 5/5
      A very epic ending to the series. I enjoyed how even when faced with an almost impossible to defeat foe like the Vord queen, there is no deus ex machina to resolve anything. Everything was setup throughout the series instead of all being slapped together just in the final book. And while it ended on a happy note, it was interesting to me to know that not everything was resolved, like the situation between Tavi and Crassus, the Vord still in Canea, and Senator Valerius still causing problems.
    • 4/5
      A great conclusion to a great series! I really enjoyed the audiobooks for this series, and having the same narrator for all of them was great. There were different tones for different characters and I really enjoyed it.The plot of this novel does a great job of wrapping up the conflicts happening in this world. It also kind of leaves it open for more books, which I doubt will happen, but you never know. I really enjoyed the culmination of events and the final showdown. The characters were yet again great and I really enjoyed the epilogue and seeing how they all ended up.Overall, a great conclusion and I really enjoyed the character growth and plot.
    • 4/5
      I like the overall story, but I think the descriptions of fight scenes are way too long.
    • 4/5
      First Lord's Fury is the 6th and final installment of the Codex Alera. While it was very brutal story and many, many people die, the end was a satisfying one.Tavi has to land his troops and move them halfway across Alera without the luxury of the causeways, if he wants to have any chance of defeating the hive queen. He has a chance of surprise should he succeed and bringing the Carnae with him will be a huge coup. Hopefully enough to win the day. Everyone is fighting for a chance of survival for their whole races.
    • 3/5
      "First Lord's Fury" is by far the weakest in the series. And as it is the conclusion, that is a shame. We get all of the immense battles and daring exploits that you might expect, and our protagonist finally comes into his power. But it all just feels like it was written by rote, with no real surprises. Everything that we read had been carefully set up in the past, like dominoes set to fall. And they fell just as advertised, but without any of the thrill of seeing a difficult thing done well, without any fear for our heroes, without any sense that the conclusion would be anything other than it was.In a sense, that feeling of inevitability infected the entire series from the beginning. There were few real surprises, and those that there were had little impact on the course of events. In that sense, it felt much like the Lord of the Isles series, which became so formulaic that even the final, apocalyptic trilogy differed only from the rest of the series insofar as it actually ended.I don't want to come across as too terribly negative here; there was a lot of fun to be had in the Codex Alera, and I happily bought every paperback volume when I finished the one before it. The end of the series, as embodied in this book, simply did not deliver anything to make the rest more memorable.
    • 5/5
      Mr Butcher writes books that keep me turning pages long after I should have turned out my light. This is a breathtaking finale to a fantastic series set in one of my favourite fantasy worlds.
    • 5/5
      An insanely good finish to the six-book series. Lots of things explained, loose ends tied up, and nearly nonstop action as everything is about the final battle or preparing for the final battle. I struggled to “get into” the series as the Romanesque setting wasn’t of great interest to me, but the storyline had so many hints and mysteries that I had to stick around until the final unraveling. I am really glad I stayed. I highly recommend reading the entire series.
    • 4/5
      A gripping end to the series. After all the windup of the previous 5 books, while the end confrontation was obvious, this was still a fun book. I thought this series was entertaining, even if a bit derivative. Still, I was glad to read this one and I enjoyed it.
    • 3/5
      Generally, a last book in a series isn't my favorite. I tend to prefer character development over the resolution of a long building plot arc. Butcher does a good job of wrapping up loose ends and leaving us to believe that his characters live on after the books end. Satisfying.
    • 3/5
      This is the final book in the series & it did sum everything up nicely - too nicely. Butcher is just too attached to some of his characters. While that makes this a fun read, it lacked any depth of emotions for me. I was never worried that a major, well-loved character could die. In this series, almost no one dies - ever. They're constantly getting killed, but then magically revived. It just took all the suspense out of it. C'mon Butcher, grow a pair! Life isn't fair.

      There were also a lot of magical fixes & a few things that didn't make any sense at all. So, not a great story, but still fun & a pretty neat world. I've heard that Butcher said he put together Roman Legions & Pokemon as the basis of the world. I can see that. Overall, I give the series a 'pretty good' rating. Certainly not a 'must read' but it would make a good set of books for the beach.
    • 4/5
      I like the overall story, but I think the descriptions of fight scenes are way too long.
    • 5/5
      Great ending to a great series. Jim Butcher is a master at classic fantasy as is with urban fantasy.
    • 5/5
      Well, crows, but Jim Butcher sure knows how to end a series on a high note. I would happily keep reading about the adventures of Tavi et al (and it's a pretty huge cast of characters at this point) every year until they all died of old age...but I guess that's not to be.

      But, rest assured, this final installment in the Codex Alera is epic. It is tightly plotted, with key characters slowly converging on the Calderon Valley where the whole series started. It's full of big magic, big battles, big disasters and it's likewise packed with sly scheming, witty conversation, and political intrigue. But wait! It also has romance, tenderness, and a new emphasis on the importance of family.

      We finally get our showdown with the Vord Queen...not a long buildup to a brief encounter, where Tavi and the Queen meet face to face and two pages later everything's decided. Not at all. All the characters we've grown to love have a part to play, and the battle stretches through half the book.

      I have rarely been so satisfied at the conclusion of a series. FIRST LORD'S FURY is a roller coaster, a really good one of the kind readers have come to expect from Jim Butcher, but it makes a soft landing. I'm happy with where we leave the characters on the last page. I'm still curious to know what happens next, but that's a good feeling too: Butcher didn't wring his story dry before drawing it to a close.

      Goodbye Tavi, Kitai, Isana, Bernard, Amara, Max, and Fidelias, I'll miss you. I think I'll even miss Invidia.
    • 3/5
      Jim Butcher books are always a compelling read, and I'm glad I was able to race through it before vacation--it would have been horrible to leave it halfway done for a week!

      This was much more militaristic than the previous books in the Codex Alera series, and a bit more difficult to keep track of the character jumps. This is not a book that can stand on it's own; it's a good culmination of events, but I'm going to need to read it again after I've reread the previous books in the series to be sure I was keeping proper track of the characters and the backstories.
    • 3/5
      Epic conclusion to Tavi's journey from boy to man, politics and intrigue, and Alera's quest for victory in the face of the enemy.

      I felt this book was the weakest in the series, although I still very much enjoyed it. I was so invested in these characters over the course of the previous 5 books, and there was so much focus on the Vord that we did not get much time with the characters who had made this such a remarkable series. Still definitely worth the read, but the narrative would have been better served if Butcher had split this 550 page novel into a seventh book, allowing more time to understand each character's perspective to the world of Alera at war with this new enemy. I did appreciate the epilogue, and am very glad he left them in a good place, with resolution and hope for the future.

      Just read it and immerse yourself into the world of Alera. 3 1/2 stars.
    • 4/5
      Ah, I’m sort of sad to see this series ended. At the same time I’m also kind of glad it ended for it did. It was a good place for it to end. I think Butcher got a little hasty at the end of this series, specifically, this book. It book felt a little rushed, and not just because it was a page turner. I felt some material was left out that could have increased the ‘greatness’. Instead I felt as if the whole book was just a rush to get to the conclusion. I didn’t so much get this feeling while reading until I hit the last hundred pages or so. There is something here that is missing that was there in the first couple of books. However, the book was still very enjoyable which is why my rate is still high. I’ve come to like a lot of these characters. Butcher has kept to the end the cheery, ‘things will always work out’ attitude. There were a lot of times where I thought for sure someone had died or there was no way one could not die, and they didn’t or pulled through. I expected this from reading the previous books. I do not think this is a bad thing; maybe a little unrealistic but, sometimes it nice to read a book and know you don’t have to worry too much about someone you really like dying. Tavi (Octavian) is the perfect hero, and that was okay as well. These perhaps cause the book to be rated only to a four for me, but for enjoyment’s sake, the series was a good one. It was very different from Butcher’s Dresden series. I think, now that I have read this one, I like the Dresden series over this one, but I am very glad I got to read this series all the same.
    • 5/5
      This is the final book in a series that I loved from the start. It was a perfect vehicle for escaping life’s worries – semi-historic fiction in a world that mirrored the best of the Roman Empire, fantasy complete with out of this world creatures, and heroes that risked everything for Empire, friends and family. I got to the point where I would only listen to one of these books as a special treat and when I felt that I could really give it my complete attention. Sad to see the last one over – such a great series!
    • 5/5
      The series comes to a satisfying conclusion, appropriately epic but shot through with elements of sadness and foreboding. On the one hand, the series' optimism feels a bit forced; on the other, touches of realism around the edges of the main plot keep a few ends loose, but not frustratingly so (as with Crassus' relationship with Octavian).
    • 4/5
      This is the last of six books that, according to the author, were started on a bet. Someone bet him he couldn't make a decent story based on the Lost Roman Legion and Pokemon. Turns out he could. You might take the fact that I read all six of these books under two months as an indication that I enjoyed them immensely. Very fun fantasy. Good characters, good dialog, great fantasy ideas (and, if you want to know how to tell a story with a trad rpg-like escalating power curve, this is it).
    • 3/5
      I've actually read the entire series, of which this is the final. It's Jim Butcher, author of the Harry Dresden urban wizard series, here doing a more traditional swords and sorcery style. It's not bad. The world-building is good, with some interesting twists. We have several different intelligent races, human and non-human. There's a kind of nature magic based on "furies" - spirits of earth, air, fire, water, wood. Nearly everyone can furycraft, to some level (firestarting, cure light wounds etc) except one of our heroes, Tavi, who starts as a sheepherder. The human realm is a vaguely Roman empire ruled by Gaius Sextus, an extremely powerful mage. Another of out heroes, Amara, is a "cursor" - an imperial messenger/spy/assassin. She can use her fury power to fly.There's some pretty good characters, including several kickarse women, and some nice world building. The main trouble I have is that he overdoes things. As the series goes along, the Big Bad just gets Bigger and Bigger and Badder and Badder, and by the end my suspension of disbelief was seriously fraying. I liked the earlier books better. (Also there were too many A-names, Amara, Asana, Athinga, AwotsitA. It got confusing early, until I got them better sorted out.)
    • 5/5
      This book – and the series as a whole – rates five stars for being not merely engaging but almost compelling. Jim Butcher tells a fantasy story with imagination, pace, heart, humour, courage and imbues it all with deep excitement. Tavi’s final steps in the journey from shepherd’s apprentice to First Lord, and his quest to end the invasion of the Vord on Alera, forging alliances and outthinking foes at every step, was as close to the definition of ‘unputdownable’ as I’ve encountered in a book. Not that it’s perfect; it doesn’t get the five stars for being flawless, but for being so enjoyable. Gaius ‘Tavi’ Octavian brings the remaining Canim warriors, the Free Aleran forces and the First Aleran legions back to Alera - a country under siege, almost engulfed by the forces of the Vord queen - and, with most of the remains of the Citizenry making a last stand in his home valley, Calderon, brings his every resource – leadership combined with field experience, fury-crafting combined with the intelligence borne of not having the talent at his disposal for most of his life – to the task of getting within striking distance of the Vord queen, a creature without compunction, mercy, or weakness. This book stands apart from the others in cohesion… where, in the other books, various characters worked to different ends, dividing the focus and blunting some of the energy, for the most part here each point of view works together; Count Bernard with the Aleran surviving forces, freemen and Citizenry, at the forefront of the Vord’s attack, Tavi racing to their aid from the rear, with the captured Isana and Araris in the Vord queen’s lair between the two, but still focused on the one event; the battle for Alera. With the three viewpoints interlocked, Butcher’s storytelling becomes devastatingly powerful. For a young adult read, Butcher doesn’t pull punches when it comes to notching up the terrifying situations; the defending forces don’t get through things lightly, some minor ‘good’ characters die, and the author has more than enough character-writing ability to make the reader care about this, and deeply. You can tell it’s a young-adult read, though, because most of the major players survive and the truly morally degenerate (who haven’t become allies over the course of the series, or have heart-rending back-stories to explain their actions) meet their ends. That said, while you’re reading, you don’t notice this ethical restraint, because Butcher is so busy piling on the frenetic peril. One irritating leftover; [spoiler warning] I am wondering what happened to the two ‘great furies’ that Tavi awakened to help destroy the Vord queen; did they, after all the build-up, just quiet down? Did Tavi claim them? Did Alera help? Did I miss a paragraph in which all this happened? I think using the time between the ending and the epilogue to sweep away something [previously described as] having catastrophic consequence would be a bit lazy, but scanning those passages again, I simply cannot see where unleashing two such powerful entities suddenly became anything less than another huge problem. The oversight, if that’s what it was, is not a massive flaw, but it is indicative of Butcher’s sometimes casual approach to plotting over the course of the series. [spoiler warning ending]Otherwise, in my opinion, Butcher takes his place next to David Gemmell for battle-craftsmanship. I really hope he revisits this world again, perhaps to expand on the speculative-fiction aspects of having included Rome as part of the history of Alera.
    • 4/5
      I really enjoyed the final book in this series. The series has been a fun read from the start but the conclusion seemed even more so. The banter between characters seemed more prevalent this book and reminded me a lot of the Dresden books. In a book with a lot of intensity and action I found myself laughing out loud.
    • 5/5
      "First Lord's Fury", is the concluding volume to Jim Butcher's The Codex Alera series. Overall, the series has been one of pure pleasure to read for something that originally started out as a bet to the author to write a book based on two themes ('lost roman legion' and 'pokemon'). From this bet, came a series that is original and yet accessible, with interesting characters and engaging plots. With Volume 6, "First Lord's Fury" completes the potential of the protagonist, Gaius 'Tavi' Octavian, that has been hinted since the first book "The Furies of Calderon". And as such, it is basically cover to cover action as the story continues from the end of the previous volume, "Princep's Fury". This is a series I highly recommend for all to read, especially since a new reader would not have to deal with the frustrating wait for each new book to be released. Highly recommended to all.
    • 3/5
      I enjoyed the whole series. I couldn't read them fast enough.
    • 4/5
      This series is good, and I definitely enjoyed it, but I felt like it ended up being very repetitive. I liked the characters, the world, and the writing, but it just felt like the same story told multiple times. This could be because I read the whole series in about 2 weeks, but still, definitely worth your time.
    • 5/5
      I can only think of one thing wrong with this book; that it ended! Tavi continues battling for his life and all of Alera against the seemingly unstoppable Vord. Full of action and heart-rending moments First Lord’s Fury is a brilliant conclusion to Jim Butcher’s Codex Alera series. This is a series that builds upon itself, so there is not a lot I can say plot-wise about this book without spoiling the other five, but I will just say that if you haven’t read Furies of Calderon (the first book in the series) yet, you should! The story pacing is excellent; with an equal blend of heroic battles, natural romance, fantastical elements, clever wit, and mystery. Needless to say I was sad to see the story end, but was happy with the conclusion. *crossingfingersformorebookstocome*
    • 5/5
       This is a GREAT series with a new 'power' twist.
    • 4/5
      Concludes the series much as it began - badly contrived and unexplained in all the pertinant details.Tavi's back on the main continent of Alera with all his followers meekly tagging along. Meanwhile the continually unbelivable Vord are besieging as many cities as their millions strong army can reach, with the luckless Lady Invidia advising the Queen as best she can. There's a fight. In fact several fights - pretty much contiuously thoruoghout the book. Nobody important dies, at all, ever anywhere. Which is just stupid. And it all ends. Finally.If you've enjoyed all the others then this is about as good as it gets, almost en par with the first one. But still basically lame. Given what Butcher can do, as shown by the Dresden Series, I really wonder why this series has been so poor. There's no consistentcy at all, no explanations, no details, no world building and paper thin characters, without motivation or ideal of their own. The highlights are that Kitai finally manages to re-emerge with a bit part of her own, as does Anna, and Isana. Just. These were the interesting characters with torn loyalties and strong personallities who fates I almost cared a little about. JB does nothing with them though, and doesn't manage to explain even slightyl how they've become so powerful. The ambiguous bad guys are ignored. There's lots of action - almost non-stop fight scenes. If this is what you like in a fantasy, then the series is for you. For everyone else who cares about a plot and the characters, find something better. It isn't hard to do.
    • 5/5
      I like the way this book answers some mysteries in the previous books. Like the way it explained the Alerans are actually not native to Alera but migrants from somewhere else. And adopted to Alera's environment, including the use of "furies".This book also revealed the identity of the mystery man in Book 1 who witnessed the Marat pre-war orgy before the Second Calderon. I had to stop for a minute there to recall that mystery man and that I did wonder who it was but promptly forgot all about it after.Now, why does the wild, feral wind furies attack and kill Alerans and animals on Alera while leave the Marat alone? I've always wondered about that...It seems that the name "Marok" is a favourite alpha canine word for authors. Jim used it in this book to name the head of the Canim spiritualist. Patricia Briggs used the name Marok as the title for her head of werewolf in the Mercy Thompson series. Or am I just reading too many fantasy books?By the way, can anyone tell me what is the difference between an earthcrafter and a Knight's Terra? Because they awfully sound the same to me but for some reason each word is applied as if there is a difference. The difference of these terms seems to be similar to the difference between an earthcrafter and a watercrafter...I also like the way this book bring the stories of all six books in the Codex Alera series together to a close. In the book, is mentioned bits and pieces from all six books and nicely blended them together. It also answered a question I had when I reviewed The Furies of Calderon (Book 1 of the Codex Alera) which is: Why is this series called Codex Alera? As I understand it, it is because the six books is suppose to be a chronicling of Gaius Octavian's rise to power. The Codex Alera. What do you think?The only major complaint I have about this book is that this is the final book of the Codex Alera series. That means there won't be anymore! But, I want more! *sigh*Cherry's Rating: 5 out of 5