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4.47 AVERAGE
4.47 AVERAGE
Jim Butcher I have two words for you: Hells bells!
This book rocked!
I can't say much more than that right now. Really, if you aren't familiar with this series, read it. Get to this book and get blown away.
This book rocked!
I can't say much more than that right now. Really, if you aren't familiar with this series, read it. Get to this book and get blown away.
Stars & stones - that was bloody fantastic!
Wow. Just wow. I have to say this is most definitely my favorite book in the entire series. I just loved it. I'm not going to break it down and say critique each piece. As a whole, it was absolutely perfect.
And having James Marsters bring it all to life made it that much better.
Wow. Just wow. I have to say this is most definitely my favorite book in the entire series. I just loved it. I'm not going to break it down and say critique each piece. As a whole, it was absolutely perfect.
And having James Marsters bring it all to life made it that much better.
This was an okay installment in the Dresden Files. I'm enjoying how the plot is unfolding.
This book was fire. The best out of 12 books I’ve read. It cleared up a lot of things and it kept going on like never ending roller coaster.
This series loves to go big, but it has never been this big or this fun. It had massive stakes, epic fight sequences, and emotional gut punches.
The series continues to grow into itself.
The series continues to grow into itself.
Probably the best Harry Dresden book in the series so far. It features practically everybody introduced in the series previously and puts Harry Dresden through an intense and emotional story. The series finally focuses on the war between the Red Court and White Council that previous books mention but never get too involved in. The book has more everlasting effects on Harry Dresden and the direction where the story is going. Great book!
I'm not sure how Jim Butcher gets better with every book, but he does. This book nicely tied up a lot of plot-lines with a twist that I honestly didn't see coming. I am very eagerly awaiting the next installment in the series!
No, Dresden does not own a cowboy hat – or any hat. Yet he’s always got one on the cover. And the “runes” on the staff apparently spell “Matrix” in katakana. Two more bits I just remembered from Butcher’s Q&A session.
Tangent: What is up with all the photo/photorealistic pictures on fantasy covers these days? It seems to be mostly on urban fantasy, but I’ve seen it creeping out elsewards. It reminds me way too much of romance covers – and I guess it should, since urban fantasy has it’s marketing roots strongly in romance (see Laurell K. Hamilton). I don’t like it. I prefer painted/drawn fantasy covers… I hate seeing a cover and knowing “Oh, that’s a real person.”
Back on track: It’s hard to do a review of this book without spoiling something, so the details will be necessarily minimal. That being said, it was a ton of fun to read – it pulled me right through. I read about half of it waiting for the signing to start, and the other half the next morning. A good chunk of the plot threads from previous books are wrapped up here – or at least progressed sufficiently. One HUGE one is resolved, another is ended, at least one supporting character’s life is shoved off in a new direction and Harry… well, things Change for Harry. Hence the title.
I was wondering how he was going to get out of the particular bind he placed himself in to secure the aid he required to deal with this volume’s menace – and the ending may just allow for that, we’ll see. Frankly, I don’t want him to get out of the bind, I’d much rather see where that goes – although I can see why an author might not want to take it there.
Yeah, so if you haven’t read the book none of that will make any sense. So read the book. After the other 11 of course. Butcher mentioned that this book is something of a halfway point in the series and it definitely is a shift of directions. I really have no idea what’s coming.
FOUR STARS
Tangent: What is up with all the photo/photorealistic pictures on fantasy covers these days? It seems to be mostly on urban fantasy, but I’ve seen it creeping out elsewards. It reminds me way too much of romance covers – and I guess it should, since urban fantasy has it’s marketing roots strongly in romance (see Laurell K. Hamilton). I don’t like it. I prefer painted/drawn fantasy covers… I hate seeing a cover and knowing “Oh, that’s a real person.”
Back on track: It’s hard to do a review of this book without spoiling something, so the details will be necessarily minimal. That being said, it was a ton of fun to read – it pulled me right through. I read about half of it waiting for the signing to start, and the other half the next morning. A good chunk of the plot threads from previous books are wrapped up here – or at least progressed sufficiently. One HUGE one is resolved, another is ended, at least one supporting character’s life is shoved off in a new direction and Harry… well, things Change for Harry. Hence the title.
I was wondering how he was going to get out of the particular bind he placed himself in to secure the aid he required to deal with this volume’s menace – and the ending may just allow for that, we’ll see. Frankly, I don’t want him to get out of the bind, I’d much rather see where that goes – although I can see why an author might not want to take it there.
Yeah, so if you haven’t read the book none of that will make any sense. So read the book. After the other 11 of course. Butcher mentioned that this book is something of a halfway point in the series and it definitely is a shift of directions. I really have no idea what’s coming.
FOUR STARS
I continue to be amazed that this series is still as entertaining as the first books were.
adventurous
fast-paced