Jim Butcher: Storm Front

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Jim Butcher: Storm Front

Book One of The Dresden Files

Dear Author,

The Dresden Files get mentioned on TVTropes a lot. That's what made me have a look at the series. I like what I saw.

Storm Front doesn't start at the beginning of Harry Dresden's career as a wizard for hire. You hint at quite some backstory. But this book is about a murder mistery: The police have two victims in a hotel room full of blood. No ordinary weapon can make someone's heart explode out through the ribcage, so Special Investigations calls in the resident wizard. The resident crime lord, on the other hand, tries to bribe Dresden out of the case. And then there's Monica who wants the wizard to find her missing husband. This, too, must connect into the case, because if not, why would it be in the book?

Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden intrigues me. He's MacGyver with magic spells. His inner monologue for most of the book goes: "I'm dead, I'm dead, I'm so dead - wait, I can ..."

Dialogue consists of badass boasts, quick quips and not-so-innocent innuendo. All in all, an appealing mix. I'm going to read the sequel, Fool Moon.

Yours sincerely
Christina Widmann