Review: Captain's Fury by Jim Butcher

Title: Captain's Fury
Author: Jim Butcher
Series: Codex Alera #4
Genre: High Fantasy/ Magic/ War
Publisher: Ace
Publication Date: December 4, 2007
Edition: 476 pages, Kindle Edition
Source: Library
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Synopsis:

   After two years of bitter conflict with the hordes of invading Canim warriors, Tavi of Calderon, now Captain of the First Aleran Legion, realizes that a peril far greater than the Canim exists—the mysterious threat that drove the savage Canim to flee their homeland.
   Tavi proposes attempting an alliance with the Canim against their common foe, but his warnings go unheeded. For the Senate’s newly-appointed military commander has long desired to wipe out the Canim “scourge,” and their slave allies.
   Now, Tavi must find a way to overcome centuries-old animosities if an alliance is to be forged, and he must lead his legion in defiance of the law, against friend and foe—or none will have a chance of survival.

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   This book took me forever to finish. This past month has been very stressful and finding time  to get some reading has been hard to do.

   I really enjoyed this book, there was a lot of political intrigue in this book, that kept the military stuff exciting. It wasn't just battle sequence after battle sequence. There was plot and character development woven through all the battles. 

  Tavi had some fantastic character development, and I really felt for him when he found about who his parents are. The hurt from the lies and the feelings of betrayal. I also really appreciated that it wasn't a fast forgiveness. He understood why the lie was there, but he couldn't forget the deep hurt it caused him for his whole life from everything else that came with it. 

   Kitai, as always, is amazing. She solidifies her role as favorite character in each book. I love her character so much. Her brazen outspoken attitude, the way she pushes Tavi. I love that while the Alerans view her people as Barbarians, Kitai constantly points out the things Tavi and his people do that are dishonest and backwards. Enslaving their own people, and the backstabbing and lies the majority of people who hold themselves in the highest regard do, that her people do not do.

 

   I liked also that Amara is realizing what a deeply flawed person The First Lord is, and that maybe his course of action isn't always the best one. Though I've never fully known how to feel about her character. Her and Bernard are a good match, though their chapters were the least interesting. Their romance is just really boring is all. They make a good team, but I don't really buy into the romance. It was also very insta-love back in book one. So that might be it.

   The next book is available at my library but I think I'm going to take a small break and catch up on some other books before I finish the series up. I'm almost at the end. I look forward to reading how they defeat their Vord.