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A review by aliceboule
First Lord's Fury by Jim Butcher
4.0
In my last review I had asked for more, grittiness (?) and wow did Butcher deliver.
There is something mildly alarming of the rate at which Butcher kills Alerans. Somehow, as I read this final installment, the staggering numbers ceased to be impressive and simply became a new detail.
Tavi and co are pushed to the limits of their understanding, and to the brink of complete extinction while retaining that which makes them human and not Vord.
Butcher attempts to define humanity and it is best summed up in Amara's words about the war as: "the preservation of unnecessary beauty." First Lord's Fury represents Alera's last chance faced with being removed from history.
I was pleased with Butcher. He delivered more in this last installment than I had expected. I do think there was missing a degree of sorrow that seemed particularly important to a novel dealing with so much death; nonetheless, its a good ending to a really good series.
There is something mildly alarming of the rate at which Butcher kills Alerans. Somehow, as I read this final installment, the staggering numbers ceased to be impressive and simply became a new detail.
Tavi and co are pushed to the limits of their understanding, and to the brink of complete extinction while retaining that which makes them human and not Vord.
Butcher attempts to define humanity and it is best summed up in Amara's words about the war as: "the preservation of unnecessary beauty." First Lord's Fury represents Alera's last chance faced with being removed from history.
I was pleased with Butcher. He delivered more in this last installment than I had expected. I do think there was missing a degree of sorrow that seemed particularly important to a novel dealing with so much death; nonetheless, its a good ending to a really good series.