Review: Ghost Story by Jim Butcher

Ghost Story (The Dresden Files #13) Jim Butcher Roc, 2011 Ghost Story, the thirteenth volume of The Dresden Files is the first that manages to shake the status quo up just a little bit. If you’ve read the blurb for Ghost Story and haven’t yet read Changes then you’ve already been somewhat spoiled. At the end of [...]

Review: Changes by Jim Butcher

Changes Jim Butcher Roc, 2010 Chapters 1-4 available here! Changes is the 12th novel in Jim Butcher’s consistently excellent Dresden Files.  Of all the series I read the Dresden Files is one I most frequently question whether or not I should even bother reviewing.  Not because it isn’t good, but because it is so consistently [...]

Review: First Lord’s Fury by Jim Butcher

First Lord’s Fury Jim Butcher Ace, 2009 First Lord’s Fury is the sixth and final book in Jim Butcher’s Codex Alera.  Set in a Roman inspired world whose citizens control powerful elementals called furies the Codex Alera is a fast-paced action intensive series.  In First Lord’s Fury both speed and action are ratcheted way past [...]

Review: Turn Coat by Jim Butcher

Turn Coat Jim Butcher Roc, 2009 Harry Dresden is back for his 11th adventure on the mean streets of Chicago. This time Harry’s part-time nemesis, the Warden Morgan, has been accused of murder and treason against the Council and it’s up to Harry to uncover the the true murderer. Familiar faces make appearances: Murphy the [...]

Mini-Review: The Warrior by Jim Butcher (from Mean Streets)

The Warrior Jim Butcher from Mean Streets Roc, 2009   **Spoilers Ahead!  If you have yet to read Small Favor then stop now!  The Warrior spins directly out of that story. **   That being said The Warrior is the best Dresden story I’ve read in ages.  I don’t know if it is the shorter format but it [...]

Review: Princep’s Fury by Jim Butcher

Princep’s Fury Jim Butcher Ace, 2008. Princep’s Fury marks the 5th entry into Jim Butcher’s less well known fantasy series The Codex Alera.  Fantasy fans who have been skipping this series really ought to give it a try, while it isn’t quite as clever as the Dresden Files, Butcher’s talent for tight, kinectic action and furious [...]

Review: Backup by Jim Butcher

Backup Jim Butcher Subterranean Press, 2008 SPOILER NOTE:  If you aren’t up-to-date on Butcher’s Dresden Files (at least up to Death Masks) now would be a could time to stop reading this review. The titular wizard from Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files is mostly absent from Backup, a short novella available from Subterranean Press, which instead [...]

Review: Small Favor (Dresden Files, Book 10) by Jim Butcher

Small Favor by Jim Butcher (Roc, 2008), is the latest volume in the long running Dresden Files about Chicago based, perennially unlucky, Wizard/Supernatural Investigator Harry Dresden.  As such I can’t really recommend this as a great jumping on point for new readers.  While the early novels (say maybe the first three: Storm Front, Full Moon, [...]

Link: Early Small Favo(u)r Review from Graeme

Graeme’s Fantasy Review has an early review of the latest Dresden novel from Jim Butcher.  It hits stateside on the first…minus the “u”  (I guess Orbit thought us Americans couldn’t handle that spelling).  For those too lazy Graeme sums things up nicely: ‘Small Favour’ is really a book for the long term ‘Dresden fan’ but [...]