After reading The Dresden Files books and deciding that Jim Butcher is a pretty amazing author when it comes to urban fantasy, I decided that it was time to read his straight fantasy books which are entitled The Codex Alera.
The Codex Alera consists of six books: The Furies of Calderon, Academ's Fury, Cursor's Fury, Captain's Fury, Princep's Fury and First Lord's Fury. It basically chronicles the ascent of a farm boy to ruler of the human race and unifier of the residents of a planet, which admittedly is one of the more common themes of a fantasy or sci-fi series, but Mr. Butcher does it with style. These books have all of the necessary components of a fantasy world; made up words, names that do not occur in the actual world, monsters, a unique system of "magic", a "big bad" and henchmen, pre-industrial revolution technology, and an underdeveloped character to serve as love interest to the main character whose parents aren't who they seem to be. The evil race trying to conquer the world will also seem awfully familiar to anyone who played Starcraft.
Yep, it is your typical fantasy series and for some reason I could not put these books down. Reader beware, even if you feel like you have read these books/heard this story a hundred and one times, if you pick up a book by Jim Butcher be prepared to forsake sleep, meals, your occupation and other interests and pursuits until you finish reading that book. I don't know how he does it, but for me his books are like crack is to a junkie, Jessica Simpson is to John Mayer, or Lasagna is to Garfield.
Originality: f-
Fun to Readness: A!
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