Occultober Day 8: Working for Bigfoot by Jim Butcher

Occultober Day 8: Working for Bigfoot by Jim Butcher

For the eighth day of Occultober, I present to you Jim Butcher’s Harry Dresden—the most famous wizard in urban fantasy. He’s not quite got Gandalf’s name recognition yet, but he’s probably a close second. If you read Butcher’s fantastic Dresden Files, you get presented with an extremely well thought out urban fantasy world and get to watch Harry grow tremendously from a young wizard with a chip on his shoulder to a mature man striving to save the world.

 

For Occultober, I considered offering the first book in the series, Storm Front, which is a wonderful first novel. On reflection, however, I decided to offer Working for Bigfoot instead as it gives you three different glimpses of Harry Dresden as he develops in his career plus Bigfoot—and who doesn’t like to read about Bigfoot?

 

Bullies, evil teachers, and a girlfriend’s family from hell…those are the sorts of problems that Harry finds himself in the middle of when he agrees on three separate occasions to take on the job of looking after a sasquatch’s half breed son. The boy doesn’t know his father is a bigfoot. He doesn’t know anything about magic or supernatural creatures. But his problems all involve that hidden world to some extent or another—which explains why he needs Harry Dresden.

 

The book is broken up into three novellas, each with their own little mystery, and each with a solution so unique that there is no feeling of “following a formula” to the set of stories. As they happen over the course of the young man’s childhood, they also show the son of bigfoot growing and maturing, figuring out how to be himself in a world that doesn’t quite know how to respond to him. He’s very tall, rather homely, and filled with strength and energy which makes no sense to those who don’t know the truth about him. (That includes himself.)

 

Jim Butcher has always been a great author and this book showcases his talent quite well. If you’ve been wondering what all the fuss about Harry Dresden is about, this is a great place to start.

 

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