[books 2014] New Dresden Files!
24. Skin Game by Jim Butcher
The eagerly awaited (by me) new Dresden Files novel.
I had some issues getting into it at first - the central plot is that Dresden gets dragged into a heist operation thanks to his obligations as Winter Knight, and I'm not a big fan of heist capers as a rule.
But I stuck with it because I love the series as a whole, and was well rewarded. Harry does stupid stuff and makes wisecracks. He's spent the past year out on his island in Lake Michigan while a lot of bad stuff has been going down in Chicago, so his friends are (understandably) suspicious and resentful when he turns up asking for their help to do something which is obviously Not Good, and he has to win their trust back.
As always, there's a big piece of magic at the end that is genius and very silly at once. And a few developments.
This one's weird in that Harry's brother Thomas doesn't appear, and his apprentice Molly only comes in at the very end.
Not my favourite in the series but good fun, and the developments at the end mean I can't wait for the next one.
The eagerly awaited (by me) new Dresden Files novel.
I had some issues getting into it at first - the central plot is that Dresden gets dragged into a heist operation thanks to his obligations as Winter Knight, and I'm not a big fan of heist capers as a rule.
But I stuck with it because I love the series as a whole, and was well rewarded. Harry does stupid stuff and makes wisecracks. He's spent the past year out on his island in Lake Michigan while a lot of bad stuff has been going down in Chicago, so his friends are (understandably) suspicious and resentful when he turns up asking for their help to do something which is obviously Not Good, and he has to win their trust back.
As always, there's a big piece of magic at the end that is genius and very silly at once. And a few developments.
This one's weird in that Harry's brother Thomas doesn't appear, and his apprentice Molly only comes in at the very end.
Not my favourite in the series but good fun, and the developments at the end mean I can't wait for the next one.