Thanks to being done with classes for the semester I’ve been able to make some progress on reducing the size of my to-be-read pile. It’s still rather large, and will take the rest of the summer to work through, provided I don’t add to it. But I wouldn’t count on that…

Book Six of the Codex Alera picks up pretty much immediately after Book Five ends, with the refugees on their way back to Alera while the surviving Alerans pick up the pieces and continue to fight the Vord. To say that there were twists that I wasn’t expecting is an understatement, and in some respects I was guessing up until the end. It looks like this was the end of the series, at least for the time being. Though I do hope that he does revisit Alera at some point in the future. I could see some prequels, especially origins-type stuff, as well as some Vord/Canim issues that need to be resolved…