Cold Days (The Dresden Files, #14) in SOS: Serious Overload of Series

Jul 12, 2020 Midu Hadi rated it it was ok

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Color me surprised when I found out that I had rated this book with 3 stars! I mean, the objectification of all female characters in the Dresden series is now so normal for me that I was willing to internalize and overlook it! This is how they get you!

Too many exclamation marks, I know. But bear with me as I elaborate on the skeeviness. Harry thinks all women are hot and spends paragraphs upon paragraphs describing them. They all seem to get nekkid in front of him for one reason or the other. He
Color me surprised when I found out that I had rated this book with 3 stars! I mean, the objectification of all female characters in the Dresden series is now so normal for me that I was willing to internalize and overlook it! This is how they get you!

Too many exclamation marks, I know. But bear with me as I elaborate on the skeeviness. Harry thinks all women are hot and spends paragraphs upon paragraphs describing them. They all seem to get nekkid in front of him for one reason or the other. He’ll tell you how wrong it would be to lead on Molly — a girl he has known since she was a pre-teen. But he also tells you he’s known her ever since she was in a training bra. The fact that she has a thing for him is brought up in every book. Everyone seems to know it and beat us over the head with the fact.

But, now that he has the mantle of the Winter Knight giving him blue balls, all the female characters are rapable too, including the tiny Tinkerbell-sized ones! And his fantasies include the ones about the innocent Molly that he has been training as an apprentice, gave mental trauma to when he took her to a battle she wasn’t ready for, and can read his rapey thoughts because she’s a sensitive. She’s still carrying a torch for him and offers herself to him. Not just that, but as the Winter Lady, I can just about see them getting together. In short, the ickiness factor got upped by a million.

All the major bad guys are women. Some of them are crazy but still want to do Harry, like Maeve. Others are shrewd and still want to do Harry, like Mab. Still others are running away from their destiny but will do Harry before they do that.

But Harry wasn’t done after just alienating feminists in this one. He also had to have a conversation with a Huge Player about homosexuality. It was so jarring and weird that I wanted to call up the author and ask, WHY?

For the past few books, every villain is here to end the world — read Chicago. And Harry has to be a bigger deal to counter these threats. He does all that without growing as a person or a character. This book isn’t any different in that regard, either.

Also, let’s talk about how calculating the mantle is supposed to make Harry. There is NO evidence of any cleverness on his part. He spends most of the book getting pranked by various of Maeve’s henchmen. And when he does end up in the right place, he totally misses the gia-normous bull’s eye his actions and bumbling have painted on Molly’s back. Where is the calculating, shrewd Winter Knight?

The only good thing in this book was Demon’s Reach. I mean if even James Marsters’ sexy voice narrating a book to me can’t distract me from the ugliness of its plot, then what is the point of living? Ugh! I think, from now on, I’d rather have Butters’ POV. No, wait. That’d only remind me of another can of worms. Yikes! ...more

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Nov 02, 2013 Lisa Kay rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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The only bad thing about this book is that now I'm all caught up and awaiting the next book in this wonderful series! ...more

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Dec 24, 2012 Mari rated it it was amazing

B etter then most of the previous entries in the series. I have always liked the Dresden Files, but never loved them. I really, really liked this one. A lot. And generally I am pretty critical. One of the things I didn';t love in the earlier books is Harrys attitude to the femme fatales in the series, like Maeve, Mab, Lara and all. It goes overboard, and the fact they all seem to want to sleep with him seems a bit of a head scratcher. So when he started in on his name calling when Maeve wanted t ...more

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Jan 24, 2013 Samantha wickedshizuku Tolleson rated it it was amazing

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OMG Wow! Just Wow!
I just couldn't fathom in my wildest dreams the plot of this series! Excellent structure, and fast paced action. I can't wait for the next one, which seems to long to wait for a book. ...more

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