A review by squinderella
War Cry by Mark Powers, Jim Butcher

4.0

I've had the Dresden Files novels in my TBR list for years, but somehow have never gotten around to reading them, despite my hearing awesome things about them. I saw that there were comics for the same characters and world, and I had to get my mitts on them. I have to say, as a reader coming into this world knowing nothing - I haven't read the previous comics, either - this was fairly easy to figure out what was going on and the "rules" of the world.

The vampires of the Dresden series are very reminiscent of gargoyles, only extremely evil! I also enjoyed the interesting magic being used and that those battling the vampires are all magic-users. The evil entity in this story, the Shoggoth, was odd and quite honestly gross, but reminded me of an enormous squid mixed with bubble gum and a snowball rolling downhill, which is rather unique.

This definitely made me want to not only read the previous graphic novels, but also finally get started on the original Dresden novels. I look forward to starting from the beginning and learning more about Harry Dresden and his fellow warriors.

Thanks to NetGalley for providing this ARC for review.