My rating: 4 of 5 stars
The chief said, ‘I’m going to need your badge, your gun, and your ability to turn into a werewolf.’
Harry Dresden is living on the memory of ramen noodles and hasn’t heard from his contact at the Chicago Police in ages. But with the full moon dawning, a spate of murders leads Lieutenant Murphy to call on his wizard skills. With the FBI sticking their nose in, Murphy under investigation, and a pack of werewolves on the prowl, Harry is up to his neck in trouble before the moon has risen.
Jim Butcher really does love to make Harry suffer. He is obviously a big believer in creating a large stack of insurmountable odds for each of Dresden’s adventures. This is both entertaining and frustrating. Entertaining because it keeps the suspense up. Frustrating because you kinda want there to be fewer fires layered under the frypan Dresden falls out of. Or to put it another way, you start asking, ‘Isn’t it time to kill the bad guys yet?’ Or to put it another way, the damned suspense nearly killed me.
This was another enjoyable Dresden adventure. I’m looking forward to my next one.
Tyson Adams 
This is one of my favorite series. I have read all of them. True, Harry is the target of much abuse, but it never bothered me. I wanted to say when a character hardly get hurt or never gets hurt, that’s unrealistic. However, this series Is far more realistic than most-even though there is so much fantasy. Being hurt and beat up is normal in real life.
Butcher writes well and the plot is thick with intrigue and action. These books are never boring. I hope you finih the series, you wont br disappointed.
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Agreed.
I’m gradually making my way through them all. Currently the limitation is what the library has available for loan.
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I had the same problem. The trick is to order two at a time since they’re fast reads.
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