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nicosta_music's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.25
Even though I started reading The Dresden Files expecting to dislike it and ended up enjoying the first book, I have to say that Fool Moon really blew its predecessor out of the water. The stakes were higher, the pacing was more even, and the storyline was much more enthralling. I genuinely really enjoyed this book, and it would have been an easy 5 stars if not for Harry being the chauvinist he is.
In terms of the Harry Dresden Misogyny Meter, he was slightly more bearable than the previous book. He still kept making weirdly sexual observations and wore out the descriptor "feminine," but it felt easier to ignore his remarks. Maybe I've just been desensitized to his antics. I still have hope he'll grow out of it and join us in the 21st century.
Most of the reason I loved this book is probably that I'm a bit of a werewolf nut. I thought the various lores surrounding the werewolves in this book were really interesting, and trying to understand them while watching the different factions go at each other was a lot of fun. I also really liked having Harry as the narrator for the events of this book, since I thought he brought a good amount of emotional insight and humanity with his narration.
In terms of the Harry Dresden Misogyny Meter, he was slightly more bearable than the previous book. He still kept making weirdly sexual observations and wore out the descriptor "feminine," but it felt easier to ignore his remarks. Maybe I've just been desensitized to his antics. I still have hope he'll grow out of it and join us in the 21st century.
Most of the reason I loved this book is probably that I'm a bit of a werewolf nut. I thought the various lores surrounding the werewolves in this book were really interesting, and trying to understand them while watching the different factions go at each other was a lot of fun. I also really liked having Harry as the narrator for the events of this book, since I thought he brought a good amount of emotional insight and humanity with his narration.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Misogyny, Gore, Blood, Sexism, Violence, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder
Moderate: Gun violence, Police brutality, Sexual content, Cursing, Kidnapping, Torture, Addiction, Confinement, Animal cruelty, and Grief
booklovingbabe's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence and Death
Moderate: Misogyny and Gore
cowardlyteaman's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
funny
mysterious
tense
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? It's complicated
3.75
This was nothing revolutionary, but it was an urban fantasy thriller that I enjoyed either way.
First of all, I absolutely love werewolves, and I guess I had really high expectation for Butcher's version of them. They didn't really click with me. I love the loup-garou, and I love the addiction aspect, but other than that I can safely say that I was fairly disappointed.
When it comes to Harry Dresden, I hope he goes through some personal growth later in the series, if I do continue to read. Even if you look aside from the message it communicates to have a hero be a misogynist, just the trait itself it mentioned so many times that it becomes distracting from the rest of his character. Overall, he feels pretty whiny.
I'm not a fan of this first person perspective writing either, but I must say that Butcher is undeniably a great writer. I'm not a native English-speaker, and I actually started taking notes of new words I can use to expand my vocabulary in this book.
First of all, I absolutely love werewolves, and I guess I had really high expectation for Butcher's version of them. They didn't really click with me. I love the loup-garou, and I love the addiction aspect, but other than that I can safely say that I was fairly disappointed.
When it comes to Harry Dresden, I hope he goes through some personal growth later in the series, if I do continue to read. Even if you look aside from the message it communicates to have a hero be a misogynist, just the trait itself it mentioned so many times that it becomes distracting from the rest of his character. Overall, he feels pretty whiny.
I'm not a fan of this first person perspective writing either, but I must say that Butcher is undeniably a great writer. I'm not a native English-speaker, and I actually started taking notes of new words I can use to expand my vocabulary in this book.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Physical abuse, Blood, Confinement, Death, Violence, Torture, and Murder
Moderate: Misogyny, Medical trauma, and Sexual content
Minor: Animal death, Drug use, Animal cruelty, and Police brutality
raesansom's review
adventurous
lighthearted
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gore, Death, Blood, Violence, and Murder
Moderate: Sexual content and Addiction
Minor: Misogyny, Grief, Death of parent, and Confinement
drasticpear's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
tense
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Gore, Murder, and Death
Moderate: Misogyny
chemical_crash's review
adventurous
dark
funny
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
Content Warnings
Minor: Alcohol, Blood, Death, Misogyny, and Sexual content
sexualedward's review
adventurous
dark
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Kidnapping, Murder, Violence, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Blood, and Death
Minor: Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Cannibalism, Chronic illness, Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Body horror, Gore, Grief, Misogyny, Sexism, and Terminal illness
cyanide_latte's review
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
1.0
I had had hopes that this would be at least tolerable after the mess that was the first book, but apparently that was a low bar that I tripped over. I think, after having forced myself to get through this, I'm not going to go further with the series. In the event anyone thinks I should, you're really going to have to work to sell me on why I should stick with it.
In the event you hadn't guessed and had no prior knowledge on this series, and didn't bother to read the summary for this book, slight spoiler: there's werewolves. Except not just werewolves; for whatever reason I cannot fathom, Butcher decided to really get convoluted with his lore about werewolves and their subdivisions. Because he categorizes werewolves, "hexenwolves", lycanthropes, and loup-garou all as separate things with different rules and lore, all under some sort of bizarre man-wolf shapeshifting umbrella. Perhaps for some people this is interesting and cool and sets his world apart, but I'm less than impressed. He over-complicated werewolves. WEREWOLVES. Of all the things that didn't need to be that convoluted, they're one of them.
Please also let us not forget the fact that Harry Dresden continues to be a disgusting MC. He's a chauvinist pig and fully aware of that, and has had prior experience where his insistence that he knows best and he's protecting the women around them by not telling them shit-all has actually been the thing to get them killed...and he does it AGAIN in this book. The man doesn't learn, and has to have some weird psychic conversation with some like, manifestation of his subconscious mind where he even tells himself he should be telling people things so they have a fighting chance to DEFEND THEMSELVES instead of Dresden failing to be there for them himself. The way even that was handled was less than impressive.
And yet again, he just doesn't seem to discriminate between the fact that all women might as well be the same to him, because he only seems to view all of them as sexy and therefore he wants to bang them. I'm floored that people think he's a fun, awesome protagonist, because honey...I don't see it. He's boring at best and disgusting more often than not. I want this man obliterated.
In the event you hadn't guessed and had no prior knowledge on this series, and didn't bother to read the summary for this book, slight spoiler: there's werewolves. Except not just werewolves; for whatever reason I cannot fathom, Butcher decided to really get convoluted with his lore about werewolves and their subdivisions. Because he categorizes werewolves, "hexenwolves", lycanthropes, and loup-garou all as separate things with different rules and lore, all under some sort of bizarre man-wolf shapeshifting umbrella. Perhaps for some people this is interesting and cool and sets his world apart, but I'm less than impressed. He over-complicated werewolves. WEREWOLVES. Of all the things that didn't need to be that convoluted, they're one of them.
Please also let us not forget the fact that Harry Dresden continues to be a disgusting MC. He's a chauvinist pig and fully aware of that, and has had prior experience where his insistence that he knows best and he's protecting the women around them by not telling them shit-all has actually been the thing to get them killed...and he does it AGAIN in this book. The man doesn't learn, and has to have some weird psychic conversation with some like, manifestation of his subconscious mind where he even tells himself he should be telling people things so they have a fighting chance to DEFEND THEMSELVES instead of Dresden failing to be there for them himself. The way even that was handled was less than impressive.
And yet again, he just doesn't seem to discriminate between the fact that all women might as well be the same to him, because he only seems to view all of them as sexy and therefore he wants to bang them. I'm floored that people think he's a fun, awesome protagonist, because honey...I don't see it. He's boring at best and disgusting more often than not. I want this man obliterated.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Misogyny, Sexism, Gore, and Murder
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