Codex Alera · Book 3
Cursor's Fury
- Published
- 5 December 2006
- Pages
- 448
- ISBN-13
- 9780441014347
- Type
- novel
About this book
Cursor's Fury, from December 2006, is the shortest book in the series at 448 pages, its third entry, continuing Tavi's growth from a furyless boy relying on wits and courage into a figure central to Alera's survival.
Its place in Codex Alera
Cursor's Fury is book 3 in the Codex Alera series. It follows Academ's Fury. It is followed by Captain'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 9780441014347