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4.25 AVERAGE
4.25 AVERAGE
This and Peace Talks definitely need to be read back to back! You can tell they were written as one book. Great books though!!
Holy. F*ck. He shook the bottle and exploded everything. All within the larger framework of the series.
I hope we don't have to wait six years for the next installment.
I hope we don't have to wait six years for the next installment.
Holy shit. Just wow. Almost 4.5 years later I’m finally current with all the Dresden books. Battle Grounds was well written and I couldn’t help but feel reminders of the Battle of Helms Deep. The action, the loss, the growth…Jim Butcher has done a wonderful job creating his world of characters and his storyline is so well thought out. I can’t wait for the next book
This is action-packed, battle after battle sort of book. It picks up on the same night where the last book ended, and most of the book takes place on that night. Lots of past characters from other books make an appearance and remind you of why you love or hate them. Of course, with an epic battle comes lots of death and destruction. Some twists and turns in this story - one of which I absolutely did not see coming. Many looming threats for Harry, so i can’t wait to see where the story goes.
I think in probably something like 70% of books Murphy is done dirty, and this one’s no different—it’s just more egregious. Especially given the fallout with Marcone and Butters being a Jedi knight (I love that for him, don’t get me wrong but also wtf), the fact that Murphy just never gets a glow up in a world where literally every person Dresden meets becomes super heroic in some way, or else just becomes a foil for his internal turmoil, really, really irks me. Even the last book where Mab advises Dresden to kill Molly because she wouldn’t be able to handle the mantle if she died and it passed to her, is just a long standing tradition for this series to misconstrue what agency for women actually is. Even his daughter enters the equation, when he flies off the handle when someone dies and gets angry and powerful, but then when his daughter is threatened the opposite effect occurs, and he is almost powerless and hopeless. It’s just old school chauvinism again, where because romance is involved in one, it provokes a different reaction than literally the urge to protect your own child. It’s wildly unconvincing and stupid, to me.
Beyond that, though, this series develops a problem with stakes similar to superhero tv shows like in the DCU. Every person has to become super heroic and every stake needs to be escalated, so now there’s another battle for the entire world, just like with Susan and the red court (and we know how that ended, surprise surprise), and it’s all just devoid of the best book in the series, Dead Beats’, charm. Where things were rooted in more verisimilitude and because things were smaller they were somewhat more believable. Whereas every aspect of this was fairly deeply unconvincing. It also was very clearly padded and should have been one book. I very much doubt I’ll read the next one, but who knows.
Beyond that, though, this series develops a problem with stakes similar to superhero tv shows like in the DCU. Every person has to become super heroic and every stake needs to be escalated, so now there’s another battle for the entire world, just like with Susan and the red court (and we know how that ended, surprise surprise), and it’s all just devoid of the best book in the series, Dead Beats’, charm. Where things were rooted in more verisimilitude and because things were smaller they were somewhat more believable. Whereas every aspect of this was fairly deeply unconvincing. It also was very clearly padded and should have been one book. I very much doubt I’ll read the next one, but who knows.
An awesome and fun read. Every book, the stakes keep growing. I can't say much without spoiling big plot points in this book and if you are reading a review for book #17 in this series, you already know what you are getting into. Just know that wow...
Should really be 3 stars for killing off [spoiler]… but at least 20,000 other people also died, so.