Be suprised if this hasn’t been a thread before, but any Harry Dresden love out there. What do you think of the new book? Personally, I was starting to see the series get a little repetitive but I found Turncoat to be a sweet read with good action scenes and a couple of decent (if figureoutable) suprises…Peeps?
I really liked Turncoat. They can feel similar, but I like how Butcher walks the line of being gritty and dark, while still maintaining a light-hearted comic air. His stories are page-turners and I love his characters.
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I really liked Injun Joe in this one. Butcher did a good job of building up how scary the skinwalker was, so that when Injun Joe handed the thing it’s ass, you knew what a badass he was.
Oh, and despite all the crazy magic, Harry solves the mystery with a little application of mundane gumshoe. Good stuff. I do miss Michael, though.
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The great thing about an extensive series of books…like a tv series…is that you have so much more room for character development than you do in a 2 hr movie… after Turncoat I’m looking forward to the next one a lot more than I was looking forward to this one… At some point the whole “dark council” thing has to be explored in more detail though…it seems to be touched on in every book as a tease…but left hangin…
As you can see from my avatar, I’m a fan.
I have really enjoyed all the books—except possibly White Knight, ironic considering my pic—and I really liked turncoat. My one complaint is the end.
[spoiler]Peabody? I wished Butcher had used an already established and more fleshed out character for this role rather than someone we were introduced to in this same book.[/spoiler]
Anyone reading the comic adaptations? Are they any good?
Excellen series, I cant wait for the next one. Any one else wondering when Harrys going to end up with the third sword?
Might I also suggest the Nightside series by Simon R. Green. Similar to Dresdens world only with a British sense of humor. I read the first 8 books in under a week.
I’m a fan of the Dresden series. I have not read Turncoat yet, but will most likelly pick it up once it goes paperpack.
I agree that the series can get a bit repetative, but that is fine with me. I see the story as simple entertainment and though it follows similar patterns from book to book, I like the little differences and the way Dresden gets out of trouble =)
I just got done reading the latest issue of the Storm Front comic and yes, it’s pretty good. They did a nice job with the attack on his residence by the Frog Demon when his date arrives…that’s basically the whole issue and it’s pretty exciting and kinda what I imagined it.
I agree TOTALLY about Peabody. When you have an established series and then a drop in like that…let’s just say it wasn’t hard to figure out where he was gonna end up…
Unrelated point, I’m not as much a fan of the stuff where he goes off into Fairie as I am the more detecive fiction type. I like the cut line that calls him Philip Marlowe meets Buffy…and that’s what I like, the sci fi/noir aspects on the streets of Chicago more so than the other stuff…
That being said, pet peave, by now he should have a better handle on Chi town geography lol
[QUOTE Any one else wondering when Harrys going to end up with the third sword?.[/QUOTE]
I thought he got it already in Storm Front? Am I off? I’ll take you up on your reading suggestion thanks!
Sanya the Russian still has the third sword, Esperacchius. Harry recieved the first sword, Fidelacchius, after its owner Shiro is killed by Nicodemus in the book Death Masks. He recieves the second sword, Amoracchius from its owner Michael after he is gravely injured in the book Small Favor.
Guess what I just picked up at the library today! That would be Something From the Nightside and the second one (the name of which I cannot remember)…
Let me know what you think. I burned through the first 2 in one night at work.