Furies of Calderon

This has to be the funniest moment in the entire book.

’ As the great beast turned, letting out another defiant bellow, Amara saw, in the golden light pouring through the breached walls, the boy Tavi clinging to Doroga’s back, behind him on the great gargant, and behind the boy sat the scarred slave, clutching at him and gibbering.

Tavi looked wildly around the courtyard, and when his gaze flicked toward them, his face lit with a ferocious smile “Uncle Bernard! Uncle Bernard!” he shouted, pointing at Doroga “He followed me home. Can we keep him?” ‘

- Taken from ‘Furies of Calderon’, book one of the Codex Alera series written by Jim Butcher.

This book was great- much better than I thought it would be. Butcher really has a talent for expression, and puts a lot more emphasis into emotional rather than physical description. Quite different from my own style, since emotional description is a lot harder for me to express- at least without sounding like a fool. He’s had a tendency in this book to repeat nouns five or six times in a single paragraph, something that was quite annoying, unprofessional, and oddly not really an issue in his Dresden Files series for some reason. Particularly the word ‘Litter’, as in a resting platform that’s carried by others as a method of transportation- he used that a ridiculous number of times. Despite that though, amazing book- I wasn’t expecting either of the relationships that start for the main characters (Tavi and Amara), and was quite happy with the result too.

Bravo.

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