Jim Butcher's Dresden One of the Best Heroes Ever
There for a minute I thought Harry and Karrin...and I was like NO WAY... and then....Okay, I'm not spoiling Skin Game.
I am saying I LOVE The Dresden Files. I love them like I love Jill Shalvis novels, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and typing The End for the last time on a novel.
Dresden is seriously one of the best heroes of all time.
Why?
Let me count the ways.
Okay, not all of them. I don't have time to do that.
But here are a few of my favorite reasons to love Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden.
1. He's always learning, but at first he was young and cocky. Just like REAL PEOPLE!
2. He messes up big time. Just like REAL PEOPLE!
3. Sacrifice....ohmygosh, so many sacrifices. I mean...Geez. Read the books and you'll understand. If you have: SUSANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you haven't, do, and one day you will understand.
4. He's a bad ass.
5. He supports the women in his life and makes them better. Unless the women are trying to kill him. But even then, he tries to give them a chance to make good choices! Butcher is like Whedon when it comes to writing strong female characters.
6. A complete and total respect for the sacred and the secular. Maybe more than any character I've read.
7. As his story has grown, his conflicts have grown. Every book is new.
8. He has to be the bad guy sometimes, and it KILLS HIM. Literally sometimes. But hey, it worked for Buffy!
9. He loves his dog.
10. He buys Bob romance novels. Or he did back when Bob was his.
Every time I read a Dresden Files book I learn a little more about quality storytelling.
I <3 The Dresden Files. You should be reading them if you're not.
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Published on July 11, 2014 06:01
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