Jill answers “I heard that Dresden files is little slow...”

Grenador asked this question about Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1):

I heard that Dresden files is little slow and less deep in the starting books.Read the first book 2 yrs ago but just left it because it looked like any other urban fantasy. I want to start the series again. From which book it gets really good. If its like 3 to 4 books I can give more time to soak up the initial stories and then be ready for one hell of a ride.

Jill I always tell everyone to not stop during the first four books. It's after four that the series really starts to find it's footing. The biggest compla…moreI always tell everyone to not stop during the first four books. It's after four that the series really starts to find it's footing. The biggest complaints up till then were: too generic-pulp and hard to feel connected to Harry. Book Five shatters the Generic Pulp charge with some incredibly inventive and horrific villains. Sometimes a story is as good as it bad guys… book five is good. Book five and six both address the getting personal charge—Susan comes back temporarily in book five and some seriously personal reveals and game-changers happen in book six. The two books sends the series on a broad right turn. Book Seven kicks it into high gear and by the end, it's in hyperdrive. Starting with book seven and beyond, you need to fasten your seatbelt, put on a helmet and turn off the phones and don't make any plans for as long as it takes to read those books. You won't have any doubts as to why The Dresden Files are the top UF series on Goodreads and almost anywhere else. You just have to slog through the first tour books and trust that they do indeed get REALLY GOOD! — Those early books take on an important value as building blocks for the rest of the series, I would not recommend skipping them. If you find them hard to get through, you could start with book five and go back later to pick up those earlier books. I found book four to be the weakest. But so much is set up in books 3 and 4 for later books. Especially book 3. The whole series has one gigantic story arc that will culminate on a "BIG APOCALYPTIC TRILOGY". Happy Reading! — for help with characters, places and creatures, go to the Dresden Files Wiki on Wikia (google it).(less)

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