I absolutely adored the Codex Alera series. Such great characters and - as you might expect from Butcher - witty dialogue.
I also love the fact that Butcher wrote these as the result of a bet that he couldn't write a good book based on a lame idea and that he responded that he'd do it using TWO lame ideas of the challenger's choosing- which turned out to be "lost Roman legion" and "Pokemon".
LabRat :-)
Athos: If you'd told us what you were doing, we might have been able to plan this properly. Aramis: Yes, sorry. Athos: No, no, by all means, let's keep things suicidal.
