Plus, I really enjoyed seeing the characters again! The pacing was faster, there are finally some explanations for the way the furies work, and (now that I knew a bit about the world) the entire thing is a bit easier to understand.
If you were on the fence about the first book ( Furies of Calderon) then go ahead and give this one a try.
Tropes show how literature is conceptualized and created and which mixture of elements makes works and genres unique: Give the thing a chance, Butcher is a great storyteller and hey, one can never run out of fantasy series if there comes a time when nothing too seductive is waiting in the TBR. I like the mixture of ideas, the avatars, and elementary powers, the evil Vord that will become a cool, evil collective intelligence, something a bit closer to Sci-Fi than to Fantasy and a stylish, unusual enemy for the genre. Some not liking this series may be simply too strict with it, because not every novel can or want to be the next Rothfuss or Sanderson and I am sure that many are appreciating the conventional and entertaining way fantasy used to be told since just a few years ago. It has become a bit difficult for fantasy authors who don´t go the dark way and make everything grimmer and dirtier, but stay instead with a bit of the cheerful, Tolkien, happy go lucky style, reminiscing the good old days when bad was bad and good was good. A good, old-fashioned fantasy series that doesn´t try to reinvent something, break with genre conventions, be progressive, but instead tells a great story, has a cool magic system, an interesting enemy and very good characterizations.
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