The story then shifts to Tavi, a fifteen-year-old boy, who stays with his uncle Bernard. However, Fidelias tricks and betrays her although she manages to reconnect with First Lord.įirst Lord uses Amara as a spy and when things turn against her in the first mission, First Lord sends her to the Calderon Valley for another mission. Basically, Amara is espionage for the First Lord of Alera, Gaius Sextus.

The story begins with Amara going for a graduation exercise where on the way she meets her teacher, Fidelias. Alera is the name for the imaginative world. The narrative is an epic fantasy genre and the author uses an imaginative world to explore characters’ conflict with furies.

Written by people who wish to remain anonymousįuries of Calderon by Jim Butcher is a book that tells a story of an empire that for years has been fighting against hostile races that live in the world. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. (Oct.These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. Agent, Jennifer Jackson at Donald Maass Literary Agency. This page-turner bodes well for future volumes. , etc.) does a thorough job of world building, to say nothing of developing his action scenes with an abundance of convincing detail.

Thinking that Amara is an escaping slave, Tavi decides to help her and is immediately sucked in over his head into a morass of intrigues, military, magical and otherwise. She encounters a troubled young man, Tavi, who has hitherto been concerned mostly with the vividly depicted predatory 'herdbanes' that threaten his sheep as well as with his adolescent sexual urges (handled tastefully). Amara, a young female spy, and her companion, Odiana, go into some of the land's remoter territories to discover if military commander Atticus Quentin is a traitor-another classic trope from ancient Rome. Fortunately, Alera has magical defenses, involving the furies or elementals of water, earth, air, fire and metal, that protect against foes both internal and external. At the start of Butcher's absorbing fantasy, the first in a new series, the barbarians are at the gates of the land of Alera, which has a distinct flavor of the Roman Empire (its ruler is named Quintus Sextus and its soldiers are organized in legions).

Furies of Calderon by Jim Butcher