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  • Princeps' Fury

  • The Codex Alera, Book 5
  • By: Jim Butcher
  • Narrated by: Kate Reading
  • Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (509 ratings)
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Princeps' Fury

By: Jim Butcher
Narrated by: Kate Reading
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Summary

After bitter fighting, Tavi of Calderon has eventually forged an alliance with Alera's oldest foes, the savage Canim, and he must escort them on their long sea-voyage home. This will strain their fragile accord - but the worst is yet to come.

The inhuman Vord have spent the last three years laying waste to the Canim homeland, making it a desolate place indeed. Then the Alerans become stranded there, cut off from their ships. The Canim alliance will be tested as they enter the killing fields together, depending on each other's strengths if they both are to survive.

For 1000 years, Alera and her furies have withstood every enemy, and survived every foe. The 1000 years are over.

©2016 Jim Butcher (P)2016 Hachette Audio UK

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5 down 1 to go...

I suppose the risk of binge listening to a whole series is that the story starts to feel a little bit "samey" compared with previous instalments....it all just sort of blurs into one long battle.

That said, if I really stop and think objectively about this book #5, there's nothing wrong with it. The story is completely consistent with what has gone before; the plot is developing and the characters are developing. Tavi is just as creative in his solutions as before, and he's growing up too. The Canim add a new dimension to the story too - and the author has tackled their societal interplay with the Aleran's cleverly. Nothing to dislike. Perhaps I'm just experiencing battle fatigue.?

And....straight onto book #6 (clearly not that fatigued).

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This series is getting very 'rinse and repeat'

It's just about okay and I'll probably get the last in the series for completeness.

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Absolutely terrible editing

So in the previous book I was pleasantly surprised that the editing seemed to have gotten remarkably better. They had figured out how to cut the annoying horn sounds from the middle of paragraphs and everything flowed really well.
But I guess in this one they fired their editor and got a child to do it because not only are the awful horns back half way through scenes, but they have so many bad cuts it's laughable.
I was goign to just ignore it, things came in too quickly, words got cut off in haste, it was bad but it was understandable, but I just had a bit where they cut off a character talking before he said what he was going to say, skipped the bit where he left, skipped the bit where another person entered the scene and picked up again halfway through the new person talking.
I've read this book, so I know what is supposed to be happening, but anyone who hasn't will not know what the hell is going on.

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Excellent story, let down by the recording

Loved the story. The recording has a few missing sections/skips and annoying fanfares which broke up some dramatic scenes. Worth a listen, but part of me regrets not buying it in book form instead.

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2 hours late

Any additional comments?

Still trying download this 2 hour after I got the message saying it was ready. Get your act together!!!!!

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Decent story but somewhat lacking performance.

There are sections of missing text apparent from conversations suddenly ending and another being part way finished and annoying trumpets for no apparent reason. Still good story though.

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Bloomin' trumpets!!

Great story and narration. A huge shame they decided to put those stupid trumpet fanfares in again, they completely spoil the immersion. There were also some bad edits where it seemed to skip sections unfortunately. Other than that, I enjoyed the story and would recommend it.

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the random trumpets are back.

Great book. Gripping from the start. The random Trumpets however are back. Which is unfortunate.

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Great episode from a great series

Characters and the plot were as good as I have come to expect. There was a little padding here and there but not enough to make me want to skip forward.
The only really annoying thing was the stupid trumpets which seemed to appear from nowhere and did absolutely nothing for either the plot or the performance.

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Great series. Took a while to get into it

Took a while to get into it but then couldn't stop. Very different to the Dresden Files

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