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Grave Peril by Jim Butcher

4 reviews

bluejay21's review against another edition

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adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0


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nicosta_music's review against another edition

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adventurous dark funny mysterious fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

As much as I am ashamed to admit it, I genuinely enjoyed Grave Peril. It definitely kicked up the stakes from the previous installment of The Dresden Files, and I really enjoyed how it introduced more of the wider world-building within this series. 

In terms of Harry Dresden and his misogynistic tendencies, he seemed to chill out a bit in this book when compared to the previous ones. I've come to expect that he'll start out every book by explaining to the reader how much he respects women (he does not, he's actually just a chauvinist as multiple characters tell him so) but after his opening monologue he starts acting relatively normal. Funnily enough, in Grave Peril I actually got more of a sense of author Jim Butcher's own internal misogyny with
the way that he treated Susan as a character. Essentially fridging her for Harry's own character development by turning her into a vampire was not the move in my opinion. I thought she was a really cool counterpart to Harry up until that happened.


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I also thought the situation surrounding the implied rape of Harry at the hands of the vampires was a uniquely realistic facet that isn't often found in the action-adventure genre. As a woman, I feel like most action-adventure writing centered around men seems to follow the mentality of "the worst thing the bad guys can do is beat me up or kill me," but the reality for so many women is that the worst thing bad guys can do to us is rape us and force us to live the rest of our lives with that trauma. I've never consumed another piece of media where a man has to face that same reality, especially not in this genre. Not that Jim Butcher deserves feminism points for it, but I just thought it was a sobering addition to Harry's narrative.


Overall, I thought this book was a really interesting addition to The Dresden Files because it started to explore more of Harry's fatal flaw, in that he has a strong sense of justice and is determined to always save everyone no matter the cost to him. I'm excited to see how the themes and world-building that were set up in this book continue to play out across its following installments.

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thrabenvaliant's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Great book, and the narration by James Marsters is absolute perfection. He has multiple accents, multiple voices, and breathes life into ever strained moment, every breathless tension, and every weary hour that Dresden fights the good fight. Highly recommend both the series and the audiobooks voiced by Mr. Marsters.

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sexualedward's review against another edition

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adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75


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