“Changes” (A Dresden Files Novel) by Jim Butcher
I started reading the Dresden novels probably for much the same reason many others did: I first saw the all-too-brief TV series on SciFi channel.
Since having picked up the books, however, and having also seen the “wonderful” offerings and handlings of the ‘SyFylis’ network since then, I consider the cancellation of that series much like I consider my last firing from a company soon to be going out of business: a blessing in disguise.
Jim Butcher’s main protagonist Harry Dresden is, for you uninitiated, a workaday wizard operating in Chicago, Illinois. He is something of a down-on-his-luck type, always on the verge of bankruptcy or at the very least getting killed on one of his oddball assignments.
And that’s really about the most I can offer in the way of introduction. Because Changes, the latest offering, is like virtually every other Dresden novel subsequent to the first one, Storm Front released back in 1997. Meaning you really don’t have a hope of entirely appreciating it unless you’ve read at least a good number of the previous books.
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