This is Book 5 of the Codex Alera series.
Except for the Dresden-like abuse that Butcher inflicted upon Tavi in Academ's Fury, he has managed to lay off his main characters for the remainder of this series. Instead, he has turned his penchant for unforgiving destruction and chronic exhaustion onto the people and places of Alera herself. In Princeps' Fury, the Vord have ravaged the world of Carna in such a way that it permeates each page with a sense of hopelessness and despair that would make even Dresden's worst nightmares for Chicago look like a preschooler's tea party. As a reader, I found it to be emotionally exhausting.
While Captain's Fury was fairly centralized, the plot of Princeps' Fury scatters again and covers a lot of ground. Time in the story is pretty evenly divided between all of the main characters, and each one of them is up to their eyeballs in conflict.
This is something of a set-up book in its own right, a bridge between books 4 and 6. There is no real resolution to any of the issues, only a progression and expansion of them. It seems to be setting the stage for what will apparently be one long and painful push towards the end in Book 6. It stands to reason that the "good guys" will win, but I can't for the life of me figure out how that is going to happen.
Except for the Dresden-like abuse that Butcher inflicted upon Tavi in Academ's Fury, he has managed to lay off his main characters for the remainder of this series. Instead, he has turned his penchant for unforgiving destruction and chronic exhaustion onto the people and places of Alera herself. In Princeps' Fury, the Vord have ravaged the world of Carna in such a way that it permeates each page with a sense of hopelessness and despair that would make even Dresden's worst nightmares for Chicago look like a preschooler's tea party. As a reader, I found it to be emotionally exhausting.
While Captain's Fury was fairly centralized, the plot of Princeps' Fury scatters again and covers a lot of ground. Time in the story is pretty evenly divided between all of the main characters, and each one of them is up to their eyeballs in conflict.
This is something of a set-up book in its own right, a bridge between books 4 and 6. There is no real resolution to any of the issues, only a progression and expansion of them. It seems to be setting the stage for what will apparently be one long and painful push towards the end in Book 6. It stands to reason that the "good guys" will win, but I can't for the life of me figure out how that is going to happen.
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