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Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4)

Jim Butcher

Start date: April 1, 2018

Finish date: April 30, 2018

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Challenges: What's the Rush

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Apr 27, 2010 AH rated it really liked it

Shelves: unicorns, fae, were, vampires, urban-fantasy, wizards, zzxread-jan-2011, favorites

Poor Harry! When we last left our intrepid wizard in Grave Peril, he was saddened by the departure of someone close to him. Harry is now in despondent mode, barely existing. His apartment is a mess, he hasn’t worked much, and the bills are piling up. To add to his troubles, it’s raining toads. Yes, toads. And someone or a lot of someones – want him dead. Including his own Wizard Council.

I can’t believe how much action is crammed into this book. So many things happen, it’s almost hard to keep tra ...more

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Jan 21, 2017 Brandi ;) rated it liked it · review of another edition

Harry is good at wiggling out of some sticky situations! Always at the last possible moment, either a friend saves the day or he suddenly realizes what to do to escape.

So basically the summer knight has been killed & the winter Queen Mab wants Harry to find out who killed him.

Yada, yada, yada…. the vampires & wizards end up going to war.

Lots of fairy stuff, fairy fights, hitmen trying to kill Harry, Harry narrowly escaping death over & over & over….ect.

It’s a typical Dresden novel following ...more

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May 08, 2011 Vivian rated it really liked it

Shelves: read-2011

These books are short but wow, they are jam-packed.

Harry lives in a complicated world, that's for sure. In the past, Harry's been caught up in werewolf and vampire drama, and this book brings him further into the world of the fae. And of course, the faeries are as complex as the other supes. First, we've got 4 types or weres, then find out there's 3 vampire courts, and now there are 6 faery queens? It's a lot to digest.

In this book, Harry is trying to figure out who killed the Summer Knight bo ...more

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