Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4) in Crazy Challenge Connection

Oct 08, 2014 Book Concierge rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: detective, library, action, concierge, suspense, series, vampires

Harry is depressed and hurting, suffering from the loss of his girlfriend Susan who has left town to deal with the results of their last adventure together. He has neglected his business and his friends and is about to be evicted from his office and his apartment. Then, to make matters worse, the winter Queen of the Faerie saunters in with an offer Harry can’t refuse.

The formula is wearing thin for me in this fourth book in the series. Harry is taxed to the max, battling ghouls, vampires, wizar ...more

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Sep 07, 2014 Sam rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: books-i-own, books-of-2015

Really more like 3.5/5.

This one was miiiiles better than Grave Peril to me. It certainly helped that I'm a sucker for all things fae, but I think the biggest thing this book had going for it over #3 was the lack of the forced love story between Harry and Susan. Or any love story, for that matter. It was nice to get back to good ol' fashion wizard detecting. Harry's infuriating white-knighting for any damsel in distress was also a lot less grating this time around. Sure, there were a few moments ...more

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Jul 10, 2011 Barbara ★ rated it it was amazing

Shelves: read-2012, urban-fantasy, zz-cover-yellow, paranormal-shifter-wolf, humor-funny, paranormal-witches-wizards, paranormal-fae-faerie, x-set-in-usa-illinois

Harry Dresden is at it again. He has thoroughly pissed off the White Council (of witches) and is put on trial and basically sent to the Faerie Courts to get one of the Queens to ally with the White Court over the Red Court (the vampires) in the coming war. Mab, queen of the dark fae hires Harry to find out who killed the Summer Knight and find the mantle of power that was stolen from him. Of course, when dealing with the Fae, nothing is as it seems and Harry gets in over his head really fast. Bu ...more

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Oct 31, 2024 Connie N. rated it really liked it

Shelves: 4th-in-series, yellow, audio-audible, paranormal-magic, narr-james-marsters

#4 in the Dresden Files paranormal series

I actually have a love/hate relationship with this series. I do love Harry and the other characters surrounding him. He's unassuming and always trying to do the right thing, even though he doesn't have a lot of finesse. But he also gets himself into all sorts of trouble, usually way over his head, and the plot gets very complicated, with a lot of moving parts that are more confusing than enjoyable for me. This time the "summer knight" is a soldier connect ...more

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