Reading Updates - May Month - What I read

This is basically a wrap up of my May Month Reads and mostly follows my earlier TBR post for the month and I am going to discuss what I managed to read from that list (You can see that post here)

Well... It looks like I managed to read total of 6 books this month.All six books were from the same series  'Codex Alera' by Jim Butcher.

Apart from this I did not read any other planned series,but I am still quite happy that I managed to finish this hulk of a series with quite complex world and story.

About Series -

This series is a coming-of-age story of a young man named Tavi in the realm of Alera (in the world of Carna), an empire similar to Rome. Every Aleran has some degree of command over elemental forces or spirits called furies, save for Tavi, who is considered unusual for his lack of any.Whole Alera is ruled by First Lord 'Gaius Sextus' whose health is slowly declining and who, with no apparent heir, struggles to maintain his position from the politics of ambitious High Lords of Alera and civil war.
As the series progresses we get to see Tavi plays an important role in between whole civil and cross border war.

Interesting Fact about Series -

The inspiration for the series came from a bet Butcher was challenged to by a member of the Del Rey Online Writer's Workshop. The challenger bet that Butcher could not write a good story based on a lame idea, and he countered that he could do it using two lame ideas of the challenger's choosing. The "lame" ideas given were "Lost Roman Legion", and "Pokémon" (Source-Wikipedia)

                                                              

My Thoughts -

This series has it all!

✔️ Great World Building
✔️ Amazing Magic System
✔️ Awesome Characters
✔️ Good Couples
✔️ Best Action Scenes 

Apart from all these things,I loved all the details about other races of Carna and how they all comes together at the end.

I am going to discuss each book separately so not giving much details here, but you can see my already posted review for the first book 'Furies of Calderon' here

My Overall Rating for the Series - ★★★★★

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Book Read | Furies of Calderon - Book 1 of Codex Alera Series by Jim Butcher

As part of my My TBR Plan discussed in previous post ,I picked this first book of a very well received yet little Underrated high fantasy six book series 'Codex Alera' by Jim Butcher 

Furies of Calderon

About Book -

This book takes place in a kind of old/falling Roman Empire named 'Alera' ruled by the First Lord 'Gaius Sextus' whose health is slowly declining and with no apparent heir to pass on the title,he is on the verge of possible attacks and conspiracies by many of his High Lords in the realm.
Just away from all these city nuisance is a valley called 'Calderon' which have different villages called steadholts and named after the owner of that village(stead).This first book is basically focus on Calderon Valley and the people in it.We follow four different perspectives,characters from both from Calderon and Alerian Imperial.

What I most like about it was the magic in this book.All people in Alera have the ability to craft and control elements called furies.Some people have one,some more than one and these furies can take shape of animals,images etc.Every Alerian after reaching an age of maturity gets fury except our protagonist 'Tavi' who at the age of fifteen, still not have achieved his fury. Furyless but Courageous and intelligent ,he makes up for the lack of craft magic with his wits and skill.I completely adored Tavi,he was my favourite among all other characters and I loved most of the characters in the book.It also had few despicable characters whom I wanted to smack so badly.

I loved Jim Butcher writing,it was good.My favourite part was the fury crafting and the world building.One third of the book was mainly about the war and battle and it completely blew my mind.

There were lots of questions and unanswered puzzles left by the end of he book which definitely will make the reader to rush towards the second book and I cannot wait to find out and read the next one 'Acedem's Fury' right away.

A ☆☆☆☆☆ Rated Book for me!

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