Jim Butcher
Posted: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 by Travis Cody inJim Butcher rapidly made my favorite writers list with The Dresden Files. And he moved many knotches up the list with his Codex Alera series.
If you enjoy epic adventure fantasy laced with magic based on the harnessing of elemental furies, then Alera is the setting for you.
The quality I enjoy most about Mr Butcher's fiction is that he is able to write his characters into seemingly impossible situations, and then write them an escape that is plausible. The characters are honorable yet flawed. And the political landscape is exciting and detailed, with enough complexity to make it difficult to pick a side.
If you are in the market for some fast-paced, full throttle stories, I heartily endorse both The Dresden Files and The Codex Alera.
The Codex Alera
- Furies of Calderon
- Academ's Fury
- Cursor's Fury
- Captain's Fury
- Princeps' Fury
The Dresden Files
- Storm Front
- Fool Moon
- Grave Peril
- Summer Knight
- Death Masks
- Blood Rites
- Dead Beat
- Proven Guilty
- White Night
- Small Favor
- Turn Coat (due April 2009 - YAY!)
Oh cool! I love "epic adventure fantasy laced with magic based on the harnessing of elemental furies"! And I extra love it when they're a big fat series that goes on for a long time so I don't run out of reading material! :) Thanks for the hearty endorsement. I'll have to check it out.