Grave Peril (The Dresden Files, #3) in Building a SciFi/Fantasy Library

Jul 20, 2008 Karen rated it liked it

Shelves: read-2008, fantasy, urban-fantasy

Maybe someday I will get tired of Harry being beaten, battered, exhausted, terrified, guilt-ridden, tormented, humiliated and generally abused.

That day is not yet.

Gravil Peril is another fun ride -- action-packed, perilous, and funny. It lost a star in my rating, however, because of the multitude of typos and misspellings that kept kicking me out of the story. And because of the appearance of the phrase "Hell's bells" on nearly every page. Minor things, but they interfered with my enjoyment.

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Apr 17, 2016 Steve rated it it was amazing

The third book in the Dresden Files series, Grave Peril is the best thus far. Just when you think things can't possibly get worse for the titular character they absolutely do in catastrophic fashion. Dresden is kept constantly on a knife's edge between life and death and never seems to have time to recover from one ordeal before being confronted with another.

One of the aspects of this series that I love is the way that Harry Dresden's character is not an "open book." All we know about him at the ...more

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Aug 05, 2010 Sandi rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audio, scifi-fantasy-horror-althistory, crime-mystery-thriller-suspense, read-2010, library-express

Something has the ghosts of Chicago stirred up and Harry Dresden, the only wizard in the phone book, must find out what is going on. Lots of action (perhaps a bit too much) and I enjoyed meeting some of the new characters that were introduced in this book. The main reason that I continue on with the series though is the voice of James Marsters who does a great job with the narration on the audio version.

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