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I finally started the Codex Alera last month, and it sucked me right in. A lot of sword-and-sorcery bores me, but Butcher's characters are compelling as ever and the worldbuilding draws more on the Robert E. Howard/Edgar Rice Burroughs fantasy lineage, with a touch of Lovecraft, rather than leaning too heavily on Tolkien and the Arthurian mythos.
I took a break after book two to revisit the Gentlemen Bastards series, which I am enjoying, but I find myself itching to go back to Alera.
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