Codex Alera · Book 2
Academ's Fury
- Published
- 5 July 2005
- Pages
- 544
- ISBN-13
- 9780441013401
- Type
- novel
About this book
Academ's Fury followed in July 2005, the second book and, at 544 pages, notably longer than the opener, expanding Codex Alera's world outward from Calderon Valley as political conspiracies and a crumbling First Lord's succession converge on Tavi.
Its place in Codex Alera
Academ's Fury is book 2 in the Codex Alera series. It follows Furies of Calderon. It is followed by Cursor's Fury. See the full Codex Alera reading order.
Reportedly born from a bet — Jim Butcher's editor challenged him to write a good book from a deliberately bad premise, "the Lost Roman Legion" crossed with "Pokemon" — Codex Alera turns that mashup into a genuinely ambitious epic fantasy. In the realm of Alera, every citizen commands elemental spirits called furies, drawing on fire, water, earth, wind, metal or wood to work magic, fight battles and shape the land itself. Everyone except Tavi, a teenage shepherd's nephew in the isolated Calderon Valley who has no…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780441013401