Since then, he’s created 15 books plus a number of short stories. This gives the listener the feeling they’re literally sitting in a room with Harry, getting a debriefing after the case.īutcher wrote three books he describes as ‘terrible’ before coming up with the first Dresden Files book Storm Front in 2000. In an interesting editing choice, the narrator’s breathing sounds, including other related sounds, have been kept in. Marsters’s voice is perfectly suited to this character and to many series fans he is Harry Dresden (much like Daniel Radcliffe is Harry Potter). Our narrator is James Marsters of TV’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer fame. This series is a thriller but throws in equal measure of humour and playfulness. Harry’s unconventional detective work takes us into the underbelly of Chicago, where he faces off against mobsters and vampires (with a healthy dose of werewolves). He struggles with money, is often mocked and isn’t accepted by his magical colleagues. Harry is a regular guy who owns a consulting practice and just happens to have some wizarding skills. Don’t be tricked though - this is not your mother's Agatha Christie. This expansive detective novel series, almost pulp fiction-like in style, is set in modern day Chicago. But is there something going on behind the scenes that eludes even a wizard? Scenes like this are made or broken by the quality of the writing – and this was done well.Harry Dresden is the only professional wizard in Chicago and he knows his stuff. But here there was a strong sense of desperation and a complete lack of reasonable options which was hard to do because we've seen how much Harry was capable of and we've seen him be truly epicly powerful before - yet despite that power Harry did feel very much pressed to consider Mab and Lasciel. I've felt there were other ways out or the bad was just not that bad (or even when it was that bad, I've felt that the protagonist didn't exactly agonise over their decision). In other books where the protagonist has been forced to cross lines because of desperation, I've had trouble believing it. As Harry's situation becomes more desperate, as the enemies he faces are made more powerful his desperation becomes really believable.
It was very well done with minimal telling and considerable showing. This book had a desperate tension to it, a very well done tension as Harry becomes more and more desperate.
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