The Readin Roos

I'm still waiting for the zombies that were in book 2 to show back up. I'm also still enjoying this series, but not quite as much as the Dresden Files. It's still a stop gap. I could definitely do a lot worse, though. There's a lot of plot that goes on in this book and the main character continues to come into his own. Despite all that goes on in the novel, it still feels like I'm waiting for something else to happen. Oh, right, I'm still waiting for those zombies to show up again. It's great to have this looming threat that you know is going to come back into the series, but a writer can only maintain that kind of tension for so long and I'm at that point where I don't want to wait any more. I'm starting to read other books in between the books in the Alera series and that's not a good sign.

Cursor's Fury is the third installment in the Codex Alera. This one didn't stand out as much to me as the first two. It had some really good & exciting moments, but I found it a little thinner in character development. I'm definitely going to continue reading this series, but it took me bit longer than usual to read this particular novel. I have been told by others who have read the series that there will be more zombies. They dropped out for this book and I think that their return is what will get me uber-excited again about reading the Alera series.

As I mentioned in my previous blog entry, I've already finished the second book in the Codex Alera. The second book follows the further adventures of the first set of protagonists, but ramps up the intrigue. There are lots more enemies, both political and monstrous. Oh, and it has zombies. I <3 zombies. F(x_x)F

If you want to get technical and argue with me on the point, I might concede that they're not "true" zombies.

Since I've read all of the Dresden Files that are currently available (I have to wait until spring for Ghost Stories!?!?), I thought I'd take the author's other series out for a spin. The first book in the Codex Alera certainly didn't disappoint me (though I've already read the second one, Academ's Fury, too and I think it gets a little bit better) and has many of the elements that I like so much about the Dresden Files. Jim Butcher is really good at putting his protagonists into impossible situations and somehow getting (most of) them out alive.