Dahye Chung Chung itibaren منطقة العبر، Yemen
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I don't know if this is the last of the Dark Hunter books - it may be, but there's definitely openings for more (right, Nick?). This one was definitely different! Acheron was actually like two books in one. The first book (as in the first 400 pages) was a big piece of Acheron's backstory. Since he's lived for 11,000 years, it's easy to see how it would take up so many pages! However, I have to admit, that I didn't need quite that much description and violence to get that Ash's trust had been betrayed by everyone he met. I could have done with oh, only 200 pages or so of that, I think. I would probably liked to have seen more of his interaction through the years with Apollymi...but maybe there was more of that in the books I skipped (I didn't do the Were or Dreamhunter books). The present-day love story started in the third section, which seemed to me like it could have stood on it's own. Tori is a great character - but being so young but knowing how to do so many things with weapons, motorcycles and parachutes made her a little hard to relate to at times. AND she had time to get her doctorate by age 22? hmmmm. Yeah, I know, how realistic is a 11,000 year old god who walks around killing Daimons? He's not - but the appeal of these stories is to be able to see through the heroine's eyes and fall in love with the hero with her. If she's too different, then it's harder to do that. I did enjoy seeing Julian and Kyrian and Zarek again - they're like old friends. I'm also getting pretty sick of Artemis - someone needs to slap that girl down and strip her powers (I was hoping that would happen in this book, but no). Maybe in the next book, if there is one. Would I buy it in hardcover? Only if it's on the sale table - it's not one I'd probably read again. I'm not sure how they'll do the paperback, though - what a brick! You definitely need to read some of the other books in the series before tackling this one - but not all of them. You can see which ones I've read on my goodreads list.
I would give it a 5 if it wasn't for the occasional pirate swearing.
The final(?) book in Jim Butcher's Codex Alera series, this one picks up not long after the events of the previous novel, with Tavi on his way home from the Canim homeland, and ends the story first began in 'Furies of Claderon', while still leaving plenty of scope for other novels to be set in the same world. Regarding the series as a whole: while, I found, that they did get better as they went along (the first, in particular, feeling to me like it was very much rote), I also felt that (individually and collectively) they never reached the same level as Butcher's Dresden Files series. Out of the six books in this (Codex Alera) series, I felt the best of them was the third - 'Cursor's Fury' - although you would also need to have read them in order to see the over-all picture. Finished? Yes. Enjoyed? Yes. Will I re-read them? Unlikely.