Lisa M. (Purplelady) reviewed on
This is my first Dresden Files book, which left me at a disadvantage of knowing the characters before hand. Even with this disadvantage I was able to pick up the story and enjoyed it.
Harry Dresden is a wizard, who's been enlisted to help with the White Council, but they don't like him much and several are waiting for the opportunity to take his head. Harry is tasked by a senior Council elder to investigate acts of black magic being perpetrated in Dresden's Chicago hometown. Harry's plate of trouble gets even more heaped on as he is begged by Molly Carpenter, the daughter of a friend, to help out her boyfriend, who just might be in magical peril. Molly is the daughter of Michael Carpenter, a Knight of the Cross and a friend whom Harry had been guiltily avoiding due to Harry's tainted passenger of the ancient fallen angel Lasciel upon his consciousness.
There's not a lot of loose talk in this book its right to the point and keeps things running right a long. Butcher does very well through the book of throwing in recaps of previous books so the new reader can get caught up. He floods in details after detail with out drowning you in them.
Harry Dresden is a wizard, who's been enlisted to help with the White Council, but they don't like him much and several are waiting for the opportunity to take his head. Harry is tasked by a senior Council elder to investigate acts of black magic being perpetrated in Dresden's Chicago hometown. Harry's plate of trouble gets even more heaped on as he is begged by Molly Carpenter, the daughter of a friend, to help out her boyfriend, who just might be in magical peril. Molly is the daughter of Michael Carpenter, a Knight of the Cross and a friend whom Harry had been guiltily avoiding due to Harry's tainted passenger of the ancient fallen angel Lasciel upon his consciousness.
There's not a lot of loose talk in this book its right to the point and keeps things running right a long. Butcher does very well through the book of throwing in recaps of previous books so the new reader can get caught up. He floods in details after detail with out drowning you in them.
