I’m just not as interested in Bernard and Amara and their romantic issues and angst over their relationship and loyalty to the throne. The plot in the Calderon Valley is secondary for me, and illustrates one slight weakness in the series. Now the Vord queens aim to take over Alera with one queen still being in the Calderon Valley and another having followed Tavi to Alera Imperia. This is the true identity of the creatures encountered in the Wax Forest in book 1 and unfortunately Tavi and Kitai woke them up. This book introduces the Vord properly – alien, shape shifting colony creatures capable of possessing living beings and turning them into shells. All whilst also secretly being trained as a Cursor (spies, assassins, and diplomats). In book 2 we start with the 17 year old Tavi still being an outsider due to his lack of magic, bullied by spoilt nobles, and having some good friends – particularly the delightful Maximus Antillar (bastard son of a High Lord, incredibly gifted, and apparently content to be lazy). In the first book Furies of Calderon we are introduced to our 15 year old protagonist Tavi and finish with him being offered a scholarship from the ruler of Alera (Gaius Sextus) to his academy. In this, the second book of the Codex Alera, we move past the starter villains of the first book and really kick the ongoing plot lines into gear.
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