By Far the best Dresden Files book since Summer Knight. A great recovery over the disappointing Ghost Story. Lots of new revelations. Can't wait for book 15 tho as Nicodemus is expected to be back

Read my full review Cold Days Review

Fourteen books in - and with the slight nostalgic sigh I realize how much the stakes have been raised as this series flew ahead, never losing its way. We are playing with the big kids now, aren't we? And things get real.

"Power corrupts - and the people being corrupted never seem to be aware that it's happening."

And things stopped being simple somewhere along the way, and have begun to weave themselves into a complex tapestry, tucking in the loose ends throughout the series, and the storyline has More...

::EDIT:: 12/01/12 -- NAILED IT!!! WowWowWowWow!


Yeah, yeah. I didn't like book #13 (Ghost Story), but I love this series and its characters. I'll give it a chance. I got some push-back that I just didn't like change. I like change. That's been one of the great things about this series. It plays out over time. It's been 12 years since the first book and it's been 12 years since those events have happened to Harry. He and most all of the main supporting cast have changed and grown. Not always for More...

During Reading:

How does Jim Butcher do it how HOW !!
this book is so goooooood!!

Pre-Reading:


Cover's out, cover's out, COVER'S OUT!!!
(Composing my self)
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is it just me or does Harry look like Tony Stark in this?
i think Jim is trying to send us a message maybe Harry is also "IRON MAN"



but he can't be Iron Man because he can't go near machinery but maybeee... that's what he want's us to think ..



Don't mind me i am just rambling here..


Edit:
Sample chapters of coldays 1 and 2 are out!
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This series is probably my most treasured set of books. I love these books, every single one of them, but my favorites were Dead Beat and Changes.

I'm not going to hope that Jim Butcher hurries. I want him to take his time and write it how he wants. But there are times I do wish I could skip ahead to when the book is released and start reading it already! :)

Okay...takes deep breath...I'm feeling alright at this time so I better get this reviewed before the cravings and shakes start again. I got the latest volume in Jim Butcher's Dresden series, and finished it. Now the waiting begins, the continual search for some book that's remotely like the Dresden books, nearly as involving brain candy something to stave off withdrawal. Many of us who follow these books live in great fear for Mr. Butcher. Will he be safe? How's his health? Maybe he should be ke More...

Executive Summary: If you read The Dresden Files and haven't read/started this book, why not? If you're on earlier book..hurry up!

If you don't read the Dresden Files? Why are you reading this? Go get Storm Front right now, so you can start catching up!

Seriously, I'm just amazed at the way Mr. Butcher has evolved this series over the years, still going incredibly strong with the 14th book in the series. This has easily been my favorite series since I discovered it a few years ago.


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so come on with the book the last one Ghost story left me hanging as did the book before that so we know he will be the Winter Knight lets get on with it JIM release the book already.............. quit larping and write/release so we can enjoy and read..... a fan... KD


OK so Jim released the book a friend of mine says its great I have gotten my pre ordered book but have not read it.... I have a list of books to read and this one is in line.

Just assembling some thoughts:

There was something missing from these later books that I had trouble putting my finger on until I went back and listened to some of the earlier ones. The qualities about Harry that really made me love him as a character aren't present anymore. I agree with some critics of the latest books that he's too over-powered. He almost doesn't even need to think before he destroys something. Even though he was careless, he at least had to brain himself out of more than a few More...

So I'm a flighty reviewer at best. I like to say that it's because I'm a busy professional but the truth of the matter is that I'm just lazy. I've read a couple hundred books this year and I'm pretty sure this the first I've bothered to add to my "read" list.

So yeah. Lazy.

With that in mind tho, it should really say something about this book that I actually dragged myself out of my daily coca cola induced stupor to post a review.

This book is amazing.

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This was certainly a Dresden novel. It was entertaining, up to a point.

I feel like Butcher has lost control of the Dresden Files. This latest novel was overburdened with self-reference and pop-culture references. It creaks under the weight of established continuity.

It's been clear for a few books that Butcher is attempting a sort of sleight-of-hand stasis for Harry, and with this book it goes into the deep end. Harry is no longer the plucky underdog fighting the good fight. He's now one of the m More...

Yes yes yes!!!

A man cannot live on award winning Sci-Fi alone!

Following the resounding success of my Locus Quest, I faced a dilemma: which reading list to follow it up with? Variety is the spice of life, so I’ve decided to diversify and pursue six different lists simultaneously. This book falls into my SERIES list.

I loves me a good series! But I'm terrible for starting a new series before finishing my last - so this reading list is all about trying to close out those series I've got on the go.

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First off, since when did "training bra" become one of Molly's tags? Because eww, gross, stop it. I get that this is supposed to convey how Harry still sees Molly as the child he first knew her as, but could we vary how he expresses this sentiment a little, please? And maybe stop dragging Molly through the mud while we're at it.

This novel was okay. I wouldn't say this series jumped the shark yet, but it's veering precipitously on the edge. Here is everything I found wrong with this book. Spoiler More...

I CANNOT WAIT!!!!! This is probably the book I am most stoked for this year! I'll re-read the rest of the series until it comes out. JUST.BECAUSE.IT'S.THAT.GOOD!

And besides Harry being Harry, I wanna see how Molly evolves in this book.

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Finished it last night. What can I say? AWESOME! It was a long wait but Jim Butcher did not disappoint. This book has everything: breathtaking action, lore, lore, lore, revelations, twists and turns, and my favorite characters.

W More...

Cannot.wait. I really wasn't that into Ghost Story at the beginning, it was so..bleak...until I got to the "eat your heart out, Crombie" line (xanth reference), at which point I had a good giggle and from then on it was good, then it was better, then it was awesome, then it was..over? nooo! I love/hate the cliffhangers that Mr.Butcher loves to leave us with, I just wish he would hurry up! I just spent the last month of 2 re-reading the Southern Vampire books in anticipation for Deadlocked, but I More...

Put it on the short list....The Dresden Files as a whole are so good that I read all 13 in ridiculously short order (mostly by loading them onto my phone and hiding from my kids by ducking into closets, spending long moments "doing laundry" and just plain staying up at night to read while everyone else slept. I can not wait!

Update: true to form I finished it by hiding in the kitchen "doing dishes" or going in basement to "do laundry". Loved it! Harry Dressen does not disappoint

This was the best book of 2012 for me. It had stiff competition but it won, big ! There was not one page, one paragraph that did not hold me glued with intense trepidation and excitement. The intensity was relieved by bits of humor, that had me giggling off the adrenaline rush at just the perfect moment. The one before I started getting another grey hair. LOL I thank you Mr. Butcher, it was one hell of a ride !
Short take- Harry conquers his inner Darth.

I was looking forward to Harry getting back to the real world and finally connecting with his friends. I was a bit anxious that Butcher might botch the emotional payoff and/or that the next challenge Harry faces might extract (finally) too high a toll. I was right to be anxious, though for the most part the book was a great ride.

The power arc for these novels continues to rise. Butcher introduces a lot more mythology and part of that is going to be Harry's challenge in the next chapters of his l More...

OY! I both loved and hated this book! I mean Harry is now the winter night and I all I want is for him to find a loop hole out of. And man Harry and Murphy have a conversation that makes me cry. And Thomas and Harry have a conversation that gave me the chills. (I admit to being overly emotional while reading this as well). But it was all so good, and at the same timeI hated every second of it. I worry about all that is to come and most importantly what Harry is going to do! I feel very dramatic More...

I feel like this is the first Dresden book in a while that was actually satisfying. To wit:

1- Harry doesn't do stupid things throughout the book.
2- The book actually moves Dresden's character forward; he's not doing the same old thing anymore: it's very refreshing.
3- We find out new and relevant things about the world (yay!).
4- Harry actually thinks like a PI at times (a corollary to 1).

Sadly, there are some things that still haven't progressed:

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Holy crap, that was good...
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Let me first express extreme distress:

I'm all caught up.

MEANING I HAVE TO WAIT A WHOLE YEAR FOR MORE HARRY?!

Well...fuck.

The depth of that distress should tell you something. Butcher has created a world I do not want to be away from, characters whose lives are important and thrumming with excitement and appeal. He can make me go from laughter to tears to triumphant bellows within a scant few pages. I love it.

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I can't believe I did it, but I actually shopped at the Evil Empire (Barnes and Noble) for this. I wanted so badly to give my money to indie-bound, but my local bought zero - yes, ZERO copies of it. (And, here we are, a bit more than a week later, and they have still not called me to tell me my copy came in.)

I still hate B&N, because I remember the glory days of Borders here in A2, and the folks who work at B&N, nice as they may be, still know jack shit about their product. Hell, I'm a c More...

Cold days takes Harry Dresden in another direction, and I believe introduces many more changes than "Changes" did two books ago. He's now a minion of Mab and is forced to deal with the brutality and backstabbing of Winter courtiers, the new mistrust and opposition of his former friends in the Summer court, and even the suspicion and in some cases outright hostility of those who had been his closest friends.

There is a slight step backward from the hard character-driven momentum of Ghost Story an More...

OMG!!!

We have a cover!!! And a release date! November 2012!

Nope, couldn't do it. If I had to read about one more stacked, hot woman throwing herself at Harry, I was going to rip all the hair out of my head--and I like my hair a lot more than I liked this book. The Molly factor especially annoys me because it's just plain gross. Seriously, it's gross. My advice is to lay off it, Jim Butcher. In fact, my advice is to stop objectifying the female characters in your books altogether. Just. Please. Stop.

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Welp, the pun must be spoken: this book left me cold.

Most likely I'm writing this review just for me, but if not, then:
--If you're new to The Dresden Files, don't read this--far too many dependencies on previous books. The first books are a little shaky, so if you're not a purist, I suggest trying Summer Knight or Dead Beat.
--If you've read the last 13 books and are trying to gauge this one, just go pick up the book. You know you're going to anyway. Also, although my review has no spoilers for C More...