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    <body><![CDATA[In what is easily the best short fiction Butcher has penned for The Dresden Files, &quot;Backup&quot; gives us our first taste of what Harry's world looks like from outside his limited first-person narration.  Instead, our guide is Harry's half-brother, the White Court vampire Thomas Raith.  <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23770977">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Let's get something clear right up front.<br/><br/>I'm not Harry Dresden.<br/><br/>Harry's a wizard. A genuine, honest-to-goodness wizard. He's Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull, with a big leather coat and a .44 revolver in his pocket. He'll spit in the eye of gods and demons alike if he thinks it needs to be done, and to hell with the consequences--and yet somehow my little brother manages to remain a decent human being. <br/><br/>I'll be damned if I know how. <br/><br/>But then, I'll be damned regardless.<br/>My name is Thomas Raith, and I'm a monster.<br/><br/>So begins &quot;Backup,&quot; a twelve thousand word novelette set in Jim Butcher s ultra-popular Dresden Files series. This time Harry's in trouble he knows nothing about, and it's up to his big brother Thomas to track him down and solve those little life-threatening difficulties without his little brother even noticing.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Anyone who loves Harry Dresden has to read this. It's not about Harry, it's all about his brother Thomas, but Butcher has set up a brilliant Gaiman-esque premise here.  What happens to the old gods if they are not remembered? What if there was a war to make people forget, thus render powerless, the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39295571">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Let's get something clear right up front.<br/><br/>I'm not Harry Dresden.<br/><br/>Harry's a wizard. A genuine, honest-to-goodness wizard. He's Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull, with a big leather coat and a .44 revolver in his pocket. He'll spit in the eye of gods and demons alike if he thinks it needs to be done, and to hell with the consequences--and yet somehow my little brother manages to remain a decent human being. <br/><br/>I'll be damned if I know how. <br/><br/>But then, I'll be damned regardless.<br/>My name is Thomas Raith, and I'm a monster.<br/><br/>So begins &quot;Backup,&quot; a twelve thousand word novelette set in Jim Butcher s ultra-popular Dresden Files series. This time Harry's in trouble he knows nothing about, and it's up to his big brother Thomas to track him down and solve those little life-threatening difficulties without his little brother even noticing.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought this would be a great read.  I was mistaken.<br/><br/>This novella/short story is based in the Dresden universe, but it narrated, and is focused on, Harry's vampire half-brother, Thomas Raith.  <br/><br/>Sure, you get an insight into how Thomas thinks and feels.  However, his descripti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41137353">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Let's get something clear right up front.<br/><br/>I'm not Harry Dresden.<br/><br/>Harry's a wizard. A genuine, honest-to-goodness wizard. He's Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull, with a big leather coat and a .44 revolver in his pocket. He'll spit in the eye of gods and demons alike if he thinks it needs to be done, and to hell with the consequences--and yet somehow my little brother manages to remain a decent human being. <br/><br/>I'll be damned if I know how. <br/><br/>But then, I'll be damned regardless.<br/>My name is Thomas Raith, and I'm a monster.<br/><br/>So begins &quot;Backup,&quot; a twelve thousand word novelette set in Jim Butcher s ultra-popular Dresden Files series. This time Harry's in trouble he knows nothing about, and it's up to his big brother Thomas to track him down and solve those little life-threatening difficulties without his little brother even noticing.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[The worst thing I can say about Backup is that it was far too short.  Butcher could have easily expanded this into a novel and made it a book of the Dresden Files in its own right and it would have been perfect. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this novella, for the most part. It was a quick, amusing read. It was a Dresdenverse book, written form the perspective of Dresden's (secret!) vampire, half-brother Thomas. My issue with the book is that the &quot;voice&quot; of Thomas is not all that different from the &quot;voice&quot; of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42876013">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is part of the Dresden universe, but it's told from Thomas' POV. It's also the only novella I've seen by itself where it isn't with others in a collection. It's a small book about 70 pages long. There are some illustrations, but I didn't care much for them. <br/><br/>This story introduce...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53747280">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was browsing the new books section at the local public library and spotted this. It is a fast reading short story packaged in hardcover. The story is a little rough, particularly in the beginning, as it assumes the reader is familiar with the author’s Harry Dredsen series and its characters. Onc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55573026">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A short Dresden files story that clearly had to be written from a different view point.  Thomas the white vampire brings a new perspective to the files and reveals a secret to the audience that Harry does not know.<br/><br/>I wondered as I was reading this whether it was plotted in from an early s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55814827">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Let's get something clear right up front.<br/><br/>I'm not Harry Dresden.<br/><br/>Harry's a wizard. A genuine, honest-to-goodness wizard. He's Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull, with a big leather coat and a .44 revolver in his pocket. He'll spit in the eye of gods and demons alike if he thinks it needs to be done, and to hell with the consequences--and yet somehow my little brother manages to remain a decent human being. <br/><br/>I'll be damned if I know how. <br/><br/>But then, I'll be damned regardless.<br/>My name is Thomas Raith, and I'm a monster.<br/><br/>So begins &quot;Backup,&quot; a twelve thousand word novelette set in Jim Butcher s ultra-popular Dresden Files series. This time Harry's in trouble he knows nothing about, and it's up to his big brother Thomas to track him down and solve those little life-threatening difficulties without his little brother even noticing.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have always ben intrigued by Thomas in the Drsden File Novels.  I like how Mr. Butcher lets us experience Thomas in this first person.  His taste in music is awesome.  The story was lively, fun, and humerous.  ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Let's get something clear right up front.<br/><br/>I'm not Harry Dresden.<br/><br/>Harry's a wizard. A genuine, honest-to-goodness wizard. He's Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull, with a big leather coat and a .44 revolver in his pocket. He'll spit in the eye of gods and demons alike if he thinks it needs to be done, and to hell with the consequences--and yet somehow my little brother manages to remain a decent human being. <br/><br/>I'll be damned if I know how. <br/><br/>But then, I'll be damned regardless.<br/>My name is Thomas Raith, and I'm a monster.<br/><br/>So begins &quot;Backup,&quot; a twelve thousand word novelette set in Jim Butcher s ultra-popular Dresden Files series. This time Harry's in trouble he knows nothing about, and it's up to his big brother Thomas to track him down and solve those little life-threatening difficulties without his little brother even noticing.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://kingofthenerds.wordpress.com/2008/11/28/review-backup-by-jim-butcher/">Full review at my blog!</a><br/><br/>SPOILER NOTE:  If you aren’t up-to-date on Butcher’s Dresden Files (at least up to <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91479.Death_Masks_The_Dresden_Files_Book_5_" title="Death Masks (The Dresden Files, Book 5) by Jim Butcher">Death Masks</a>) now would be a could time to stop reading this review.<br/><br/>The titular wizard from Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files is mostly absent from Backup, a short novella...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47702356">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[yay, thomas finally gets his own story.  i have been wondering why butcher hasn't taken some of his wonderfully fleshed out characters from the dresden files and given them some increased page-time with some side stories or branching series.  this just shows that his characters have the volume neces...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64992106">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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