Changes
2010
- harry dresden (fictitious character)
- wizards
- fiction
- fantasy
- nyt:hardcover-fiction=2010-04-25
- chicago (ill.), fiction
- fiction, occult & supernatural
- fiction, fantasy, paranormal
- private investigators, fiction
- nyt:mass-market-paperback=2011-03-20
The story
The new novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Dresden Files series. Long ago, Susan Rodriguez was Harry Dresden's lover-until she was attacked by his enemies, leaving her torn between her own humanity and the bloodlust of the vampiric Red Court. Susan then disappeared to South America, where she could fight both her savage gift and those who cursed her with it.Now Arianna Ortega, Duchess of the Red Court, has discovered a secret Susan has long kept, and she plans to use it-against Harry. To prevail this time, he may have no choice but to embrace the raging fury of his own untapped dark power. Because Harry's not fighting to save the world...He's fighting to save his child.
What it’s like
Gritty urban fantasy with a noir undertow: rain-slick Chicago streets at night, cramped apartments lit by lamps and the blue glow of a phone, bruised skies over alleys, and frequent scenes of flickering magic that crackles like static. Jim Butcher's first-person prose is brisk, wry and full of hard-boiled asides, so the book moves at a fast clip with long stretches of tense talk between fights. Its vibe is wise-cracking dread with a stubborn heart, best suited to a late-night read or a long train ride where you want momentum and a dose of grimness. The violence is frequent and often brutal: bloody fights, injuries described in unflinching detail, and vampiric menace, with some sexual content and grim cruelty in places, though not graphic gore for its own sake. It is for readers who like a sardonic, rough-edged protagonist, a supernatural world with real stakes, and a story about a man willing to become something darker to protect his family.
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