Books: Academe's Fury - Jim Butcher

[the_nita]

Okay, I know i'm only half way through it, but I'm having a bad case of "why am I reading this again?" Same problems I had with the first book are coming up - if you're going to stack the odds this heavily against our heroes, then no, I don't expect them to win, and when they pull the win out of their arse, it doesn't look like they're amazingly talented and lucky - it looks like deus ex machina.