![]() In Academ’s Fury Tavi takes on a Harry Potter-esque mantle as well, as a student at the Academy who is bullied by the malicious son of an aristocrat and his cronies while befriending and leading several more good-hearted students in missions for Killian, the aged spymaster (himself similar to Chade in Hobb’s “Assassin” books). He’s thus reminiscent of Pug from Raymond Feist’s Magician, or Bink from Piers Anthony’s A Spell for Chameleon. Tavi, the protagonist of one of the primary storylines, continues in the orphan-with-a-mysterious-destiny role he remains abnormally without even a single “fury,” the elemental familiars that all (other) people in Alera bond with to work magic. While reading that volume isn’t strictly necessary to understand this one (each book in the series is self-contained), it is recommended as the characters and situations are more fully introduced in the previous volume: Tavi, Isana, Bernard, Amara, Doroga and more all make repeat appearances here. ![]() Academ’s Fury is the second volume in Butcher’s “Codex Alera” series, picking up two years after the first volume, Furies of Calderon, ended. ![]()
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