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Codex Alera · Book 5

Princeps' Fury

by Jim Butcher

Published
25 November 2008
Pages
560
ISBN-13
9781841498522
Type
novel

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About this book

At 560 pages, Princeps' Fury is the longest book in Codex Alera; Butcher published it in November 2008 as the fifth entry, carrying the furycrafting-powered war between Alera and the Marat toward its climax.

Its place in Codex Alera

Princeps' Fury is book 5 in the Codex Alera series. It follows Captain's Fury. It is followed by First Lord'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…

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