I am a big fan of Jim Butcher's Codex Alera series, the first book being The Furies of Caulderon. As I was perusing his website the other day looking for the release date of his sixth and final book in the series, I stumbled across his wife's work who is also an author. Mrs. Butcher had an excerpt of her book online titled Burning Alive and so I did as any faithful butcher fan would do. I read it. It was quite a long excerpt and I thoroughly enjoyed it. After the long excerpt was finished, the hook was set, and I had to have more. I found out that the kindle has an iphone/IPT app (IPT is tech junkie jargon for ipod touch) and so I downloaded it. I bought the book on the ipod touch, which was only a couple of bucks due to a sale, and proceeded to read it on my ipod touch. Well, it is definitely no like reading a good old fashioned paperback.
The book was good in the post apocalyptic sense. It had a great beginning and Mrs. Butcher is a great writer. My only gripe was the over-explicit sex scenes. There were only two but that was quite enough for me. I've read a lot of fiction including Dune, Sword of Truth series, Wheel of time, and pretty much any other good series out there and I'm not opposed to the "love scenes" provided they aren't too explicit.
In any event, the book was good and it left me wanting to read the next one in the series. However, as I read another excerpt of the second book, it appears that the next book will not be featuring the two main characters in the first book, but rather it will focus on another very minor character that was briefly introduced in the first book. Bah!
I probably won't read the second one due to the simple fact that I don't want to start over with some other characters in the same story.
Anyway, I'm looking for any good scifi/fantasy book series that I have not delved into yet. Any suggestions?
No comments:
Post a Comment