snoopydoo77 's review for:

Battle Ground by Jim Butcher
4.0


First things first…. I once again listened to the audio and loved it. I highly recommend it if you like audio books. James Masters does an epic job when it comes to these books. 





This review may contain spoilers to the previous books, so if you are not caught up with the books, maybe not read this review..... yet. 





I will keep it spoiler free for Battle Ground though. 





I have finally caught up with the series and am so happy I'm current with the books and now dont need to avoid spoilers anymore.





BUT.





I finished this book a few days ago and I'm still not over it and also not sure what to think yet. 





So that being said this will most likely be the shortest Dresden Files review I have written yet. 





This book was insane…… Like really insane.. It was non stop action super fast paced. Maybe even a little too fast paced for me.





I normally love all Dresden books but I had some issues with this one. Not only do we lose some people we do not even get the time to process that .. it felt too rushed and a bit of a cheat for me. 





Everyone comes together in this book and I loved that. And of course we lose some along the way and not only some side characters, we lose some big players in this book and not even get a minute to breathe and cry and cry some more because… we move right along in this epic battle. Others step up and become allies... For the time being anyway… while others become the big bad.





Overall this book is busy , really busy and we hardly get time to breathe as I said multiple times .... Not only is there an epic battle ( that spans over the entire book), but also so many other things going on.





With the end of this book , we know that things will be way different than they ever were and I'm not sure where this will be going… in future books. But I do hope wherever that is…. We will get some down time and allow a slower pace, where we can reflect and process what just happened.





Overall, of course I loved it but not as much, there was just so much going on and  it was too busy to reflect in some of the loses that were just kind swept along with us. 





So, that being said ... the highest I can give it is 4★









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