Academ’s Fury

While I won’t say that anything in this book REALLY surprised me, including a few of the ‘big twists’ that have been building since the first novel, it was an even better experience than I thought it would be. Jim Butcher really does have a talent for fantasy, and more precisely a talent for making an entertaining and fantastic world wrought with dozens of simultaneous, complicated, very realistic stories (motivations more than stories, I’m having trouble finding the right word) that all entangle and form the collective whole. Where the first novel gave me confidence in the choices in my own book, which weren’t all that different from the style Butcher uses here, this one did the opposite. I’m not entirely certain I could pull off the use of so many vying individuals / factions in such a believable manner as this, much less make the experience an entertaining one beyond simply ‘complex’.

Moving on to the third book, after playing a few games of Go of course ^_^

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