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A review by pvl
First Lord's Fury by Jim Butcher
2.0
The series started very well and I was looking forward to the rest of the books with anticipation: a much more experienced Jim Butcher launches a new series and is free to write outside of the boundaries of the Dresden Files. With every book that followed they got worse and worse though. Perhaps they were rushed out too fast because the author wanted to focus more on Dresden, perhaps it was due to poor editing, or perhaps it was something else... The end result was disappointing for me.
Everyone in these books thinks furiously. Raises an eyebrow. Raised both eyebrows. Smiles woolfishly. Knows that it is all about looking confident when a predator is watching you. But we knew that from the Dresden Files anyway, didn't we?
Everyone lovable reacts the same way, and the episodic bad guys are generally extremelly stupid and are forced to act in obnixious ways so that there is something for the good guys to do.
Andeveryone everyone apart from like 90% of the population and almost 100% of the characters we dislike. Not only do they live, but they live in almost complete happiness. They are loved by their people, are given the status they deserve, can magically bear babies again. Even the traitor that should have been given the opportunity to die a epic/cheesy death to redeem himself is left alive.
The one minor exception is no exception at all, since the character that was seriously hurt is nevertheless one of the most capable furycrafters left in the realm, and is reunited with his parents, and might regain his ability to walk eventually.
The worse thing is that in general they do not survive because someone did something spectacular. They survive because the bad guys would rather go deal with something else instead of snapping their fingers to solve the problem for good.
And, naturally, everyone in Alera feels compelled to preface every plan they are about to share with lines such as, 'Here is what we are going to do...', so that there is a good opportunity to send the reader far away from the scene. This is nothing more than lazy writing.
Everyone in these books thinks furiously. Raises an eyebrow. Raised both eyebrows. Smiles woolfishly. Knows that it is all about looking confident when a predator is watching you. But we knew that from the Dresden Files anyway, didn't we?
Everyone lovable reacts the same way, and the episodic bad guys are generally extremelly stupid and are forced to act in obnixious ways so that there is something for the good guys to do.
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The one minor exception is no exception at all, since the character that was seriously hurt is nevertheless one of the most capable furycrafters left in the realm, and is reunited with his parents, and might regain his ability to walk eventually.
The worse thing is that in general they do not survive because someone did something spectacular. They survive because the bad guys would rather go deal with something else instead of snapping their fingers to solve the problem for good.
And, naturally, everyone in Alera feels compelled to preface every plan they are about to share with lines such as, 'Here is what we are going to do...', so that there is a good opportunity to send the reader far away from the scene. This is nothing more than lazy writing.