Cursor’s Fury

Okay, I know that this feeling will likely subside over the course of the next few weeks, leaving me with a more objective feel for the novel and series as a whole. However…

HOLY SHIT.

This third part to the Codex Alera books by Jim Butcher was absolutely amazing, in every sense of the word. Even had the first and second books been merely mediocre, instead of great reads on their own as they were, it would have been well worth their 550 pages each in order to get to this one. I can’t remember ever being this excited about continuing a story, though I know I probably have been with most good series I’ve read (‘Song of the Lioness’ Quartet and the ‘Dresden Files’, for instance). I’m suddenly reminded of my full passion for literature, and my motivations when I started writing. In short, it was simply to instill this same feeling of absolute happiness and excitement to those who might read my own work.

While the writer in me is screaming that I need to jump on this opportunity and continue my novel, the reader in me won’t let that happen. I must start on the fourth book in this series immediately.

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