Death Masks (The Dresden Files, #5) in Building a SciFi/Fantasy Library

Aug 03, 2011 Dale Pearl rated it it was amazing

Shelves: religious, urban-fantasy, 2013, vampire, chicago-scene, detective, y2013-august, fifth-in-a-series, paranormal

Summary:

8 months after Summer Knight Harry is asked to to be on a talk show. While taping The Larry Fowler show each of the guests is on the show to actually meet Harry: Mortimer Linquist, a local medium, tells Harry that his girlfriend Susan is still alive and is somewhere in Peru. Father Vincent, a Vatican priest, wants to hire Harry to find the shroud of turin. A university professor by the name of Ortega is a Red Court Vampire and challenges Harry to a duel to simplify the battle and to make ...more

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May 30, 2014 Stormi (StormReads) rated it it was amazing

Shelves: urban-fantasy

First Thoughts: Two words that describes awesome...Harry Dresden!!! I absolutely love listening to this series!!!

The more you get into this series the better it gets as the more trouble Harry gets into. Things have been building up and Harry has gotten himself into some serious trouble since he killed a vampire and some of her followers.

Now he has to duel with a vampire to end the war between vampires and wizards! It wont end up good for Harry because there is not much of a way he will win.

Fathe First Thoughts: Two words that describes awesome...Harry Dresden!!! I absolutely love listening to this series!!!

The more you get into this series the better it gets as the more trouble Harry gets into. Things have been building up and Harry has gotten himself into some serious trouble since he killed a vampire and some of her followers.

Now he has to duel with a vampire to end the war between vampires and wizards! It wont end up good for Harry because there is not much of a way he will win.

Father Vincent needs Harry to find the Shroud of Torin and he is not the only one who is looking for it. Harry meets some extremely nasty Demons who wants the Shroud and don't' mind killing Harry.

There is never just one thing going on with Harry. The Knights of the Cross are around to lend a hand and his friend Micheal wants him to stay away from looking for the Shroud because of all the bad things that are going to happen but of course that wont happen. His ex-girlfriend turned vampire is back, but she only came back to tell Harry what she was going to do and it involves moving away. Now that she is here though she lends a hand to Harry when he gets in trouble. There is also some murderer going around collecting body parts and of course there has to be links to Harry.

Harry doesn't always go looking for trouble but trouble is always looking for Harry.

I really enjoyed this book a lot more than any of the others in the series, I think mainly because with each book you are getting more and more of the world building and the different creatures that in the stories. The consequences for Harry's actions in previous books are really starting to heat up with Duke Ortega coming to announce that he must duel Harry. The author does such a wonderful job of putting things all together to make an extremely interesting world.

Honestly I haven't read a lot of books where a man has written such an intense love scene. (Nope I don't read Nicholas Sparks!) So I guess I was very surprised by it and thought it was wonderfully done. It is also nice to see Susan struggling with her new vampiric nature especially when she is around Harry.

I think one of my favorite characters from this book would have to be The Archives. She is a young girl who has no name but The Archives, so Harry gives her the name Ivy (Arch Ivies).

If you have never tried this series then I would really recommend it as I just simply love it!

Narrator: James Marster

As far as I am concerned James Marster is Harry Dresden! He just gets better and better with each book and well I could just listen to his voice all day. :) ...more

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