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Butcher loves to constantly remind you of relatively superfluous details that should be commonplace to any reader this deep in a series.

All the books in this series have been fairly predictable, I think this one is the first one to really suffer for it though. Butcher seems to have neglected to kill his darlings, and as a result, I don’t fear for any of them. These books are full of peril, but no one is ever truly in danger. I’ve grown tired of seeing Tavi narrowly escape death, or cleverly outmaneuver an enemy. I’ve seen this formula six times now, and Butcher follows it almost to a letter in every book. The book was just generally uninteresting to me.As strange as it sounds, I don’t really know if I would recommend this book (unless you enjoy the way Butcher writes battle scenes if you do, you’re in for a treat.) The story ends in the way you (probably) think it will, and this entire book is nothing but a prelude to what you already (probably) knew was coming. The most disappointing thing about the book to me was that the most enjoyable elements of Butcher’s writing, namely his world building and the exposure to his non-human cultures, were all but absent. The entire book felt like a too-long build up to an over-wrought, predictable ending I couldn’t avoid feeling like Butcher had grown tired of the series and just wanted to be done with it. I considered this book to easily be the least enjoyable book in the series. First Lord’s Fury is the sixth, and final, installment in Jim Butcher’s Codex Alera.