the Dresden Files

A nice little Dresden Files snack.

Brief Cases (The Dresden Files, #15.1) by Jim Butcher

November 29, 2018 by narfna Leave a Comment

I really like these story collections because I don’t have the patience to track them all down in their various anthologies. Extremely convenient, thumbs up. And to top it all off, I really enjoyed all the stories here. There were a couple in the last collection I was a little bored with, or that showed their age, etc. But they were all good here, entertaining and fit well into the larger Dresden Files universe. I especially liked that three of them took place after the events of Skin Game, because I need the next book ASAP. Those three were the last […]

11/29/2018 narfna's CBR10 Review No:148 |

Still my fave. I think closely followed by Dead Beat. Anyway, Dresden Re-read complete!

Skin Game (The Dresden Files, #15) by Jim Butcher

September 6, 2018 by narfna 2 Comments

I should have written this review three weeks ago. This will not be long or comprehensive. I’m behind in my reviews, but so close to catching up! (Only two more after this one!) Mostly, whatever I’m about to write will boil down to, “This is still my favorite Dresden Files book and it is so fun.” Warning: free floating spoilers for events in the first fourteen books below. In this book we have: *Harry teaming up with his mortal enemies, the Denariians. *Harry confronting his feelings for Murphy. *Harry confronting his feelings and duties for his daughter. *The Lasciel arc […]

9/6/2018 narfna's CBR10 Review No:108 |

Second to last stop on the Dresden re-read.

Cold Days (The Dresden Files, #14) by Jim Butcher

August 27, 2018 by narfna Leave a Comment

Still like this book a lot, but I didn’t love it quite as much this time around. It is by far the longest book in the series, so maybe that has something to do with it. Also, I did hard copy this time around and not audio, and James Marsters brings so much to his narration, I know that would have influenced my reading of it the first time. So (spoilers for all previous Dresden Files books ahead) Harry is fresh from his death coma, and in PT with Mab, of all people. Finally about a year after he was […]

8/27/2018 narfna's CBR10 Review No:102 |

Harry’s long dark night of the soul.

Ghost Story (The Dresden Files, #13) by Jim Butcher

May 30, 2018 by narfna 8 Comments

See, this is why we need half stars. This book right here. This is not a five star book for me, but I liked it better than four stars, also, and feel weird rating it the same as other books I’ve rated four stars and enjoyed less. It is a perfect encapsulation of the 4.5 star book. So round up or down? Up or down? It is a terrible decision. Don’t read on if you haven’t read through book twelve. Spoilers ahoy. A little bit of the luster wore off this on re-read, so I’m feeling like maybe I should […]

5/30/2018 narfna's CBR10 Review No:66 |

Burn it all to the ground, Jim Butcher. Burn it down.

Changes (The Dresden Files, #12) by Jim Butcher

May 8, 2018 by narfna 4 Comments

Short review for this re-read. I wrote a monster one last time. As always with this series, there are little small moments where I have to stop and mentally finger wag at Jim Butcher, mostly to do with Harry’s sometimes sexist-attitudes, but overall this book really is a masterful piece of urban fantasy. It works as a standalone story, but mostly it works as the pivot point in this ongoing twenty-three book series. You don’t really know how literal the title is going in, but you soon find out. This whole book is an epic mess of Jim Butcher burning […]

5/8/2018 narfna's CBR10 Review No:58 |

“Night wasn’t so much falling as sharpening its claws.”

Turn Coat (The Dresden Files, #11) by Jim Butcher

March 4, 2018 by narfna Leave a Comment

As with almost every book in this series, I liked it better this time. I’ve said this before, but there are advantages to reading the hard copies of the books, as much as I love the audio versions with James Marsters. And one of those advantages is it just takes so much less time to read a physical book, and stuff that you’re not enjoying either goes faster or you can skip it outright. I remember when I read this book the first time it just felt a little too long, a little to dragged out. But this time it […]

3/4/2018 narfna's CBR10 Review No:29 |

The one with the horror convention.

Proven Guilty (The Dresden Files, #8) by Jim Butcher

September 26, 2017 by narfna Leave a Comment

Most of this book is muchly good, but I do have one substantial complaint. But more on that later. As I re-read this series, I continue to enjoy it much more than I did the first time through. I’m not going to rehash why (combo of knowing all the characters now and where they end up, along with catching things I didn’t the first time through). Just assume the same things I’ve said for books four through seven also apply here. Most of this book is spent with Harry adjusting to his new role as Warden of the White Council, […]

9/26/2017 narfna's CBR9 Review No:88 |

Polka will never die.

Dead Beat (The Dresden Files, #7) by Jim Butcher

August 29, 2017 by narfna 5 Comments

So I never actually wrote a real review of this book the first time I read it. It was the end of the year, and I just half-assed something over on Goodreads, and didn’t even post anything at all on the CBR blog (it was my first Cannonball, I believe, CBR4). I just wanted to read it and enjoy it and then be done with it. But seeing as how this is the first truly wonderful book in the series (and don’t even argue with me about this), it really does deserve a full considered review. This is very nearly a perfect […]

8/29/2017 narfna's CBR9 Review No:61 |

dAvid on Everything changes in a SeasonThat sounds like how I feel at this point. I’ll probably finish the series and will probably end up liking it overall, but it will...
Chris on No bed of rosesSounds perfect for my church book club👍
tikkersweet on Everything changes in a SeasonI enjoyed the rest of this series but I had to force myself to sit down and read, I enjoyed it while I was reading...
Allison on The dangerous lull of monotonyOh, so glad to see more love for Severance. I agree with you that the "present day" scenes were less compelling than Candace just doing...
Malin on I so wanted to love this. Alas, it was not to be.If I'm going to have any chance of reaching a Cannonball this year, I need to review EVERYTHING I read (re-reads not necessarily included).