Blood Rites (The Dresden Files, Book 6) by Jim Butcher Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Blood Rites (The Dresden Files, Book 6)
Book Review: Best one of the bunch...so far
Summary: 5 Stars
Okay, I stumbled upon the Dresden files last summer and quickly read through the first 5 books. This is the best of the bunch and you don't have to read all the others to enjoy this book, however, I think it's sacriledge if you do pick this up without reading the other. Jim Butcher does a good job just in making the book very self-contained, exciting stuff. I tried to pace myself with this one, but ended up finishing behind closed doors at my office when I should have been working. Great book!
Jim Butcher has an amazing skill, I think genius level on how to pace a book. From page one the pace of this book is outstanding. I can't remember the last book I read that didn't have a "slow part". I typically read from two points of view: wannabe writer and lifetime reader. Usually I tackle the reader side first and then, if worthy, go back a second time with a writer's perspective. I couldn't help but do both. This was just a FUN read. The story is interesting, great characterization, dialogue is snappy, at times contemporary but always on point. High on entertainment, good messaging about family and wanting of such. You will play this book like a movie in your head. You probably have ideas of current actors who could play the leads. When this does get the Hollywood TV treatment all I can tell folks is READ the books. It will make great TV/Movie but you can't appreciate the texture of a well written and paced book.
Well done Mr. Butcher. I highly recommend this book to those who are not into High Fantasy but more of an realistic urban fantasy.
Book Review: Non Stop action and revelations for Harry.
Summary: 5 Stars
Thomas, vampire of the white court has helped Harry in the past and is now calling in his favours to get Harry to investigate a lethal case of evil eye happening on a friend's "adult" film set. It seems a simple request - stop the hex and find the bad guys.
Then the Black Court vampires hit town and start attempting to kill Harry - he's target no.1 and the vampire-wizard war is still on. Like all the other books in this series, this is novel moves along at a quick pace with poor Harry getting bashed by one set of bad guys after another. Harry also finds out family secrets from an unexpected source that will change his life, and the way he views the world forever.
These continue to be well written mystery-action and magic novels that build on one another. While this could be read alone, these books are best read in sequence as Harry's reactions make more sense when you understand the implications of his past cases. I'm very much looking forward to the next book in this series.
Book Review: Best so far
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the sixth book in the Dresden series. Harry Dresden is Chicago's only practicing wizard investigator and is listed in the yellow pages. He's young, single, and good-hearted. A vampire friend (there are three kinds of vampires, Red, White and Black Court) wants him to investigate a case for him. A movie producer is being cursed, and the women around him keep on dying in strange ways. As usual, Harry jumps right in, is chivalrous and heroic to the end, and there's plenty of action on every page. Demons, puppies, vampires, police, mysterious assassins, wizards, succubi, it's all there. However, this book was different from the previous five because at the end of the book, Harry and his life had changed forever. This series used to be frustrating to read because each book would end with very little changed about the character or his circumstances, like a sit-com. But with this latest installment, there was more heart, non-stop action as usual, and new relationships being formed, so that it was more like an exciting installment of a dramatic series. Butcher writes very well, there's no mad clap farcical world (Terry Prachett or Christopher Moore) or weird angst - Harry's just a regular guy with bad luck days - just that his bad lucks tend to include demon assassins, homocidal succubi...Book Review: ultimate amalgam of fantasy, horror, and mystery
Summary: 5 Stars
As the only wizard who outed himself, he has more business than he can handle even though many people do not believe that Harry Dresden performs real magic. White Court Vampire Thomas, who feeds on human energy instead of blood, has done Harry many favors over the years without asking for anything in return. So when Thomas finally needs Harry's help, the wizard drops every thing to assist his pal.
Porno movie producer Arturo Genosa has opened his own production company, but someone cast an entropy evil eye spell that kills the women around him. Harry is to protect the females while also discovering who is casting such a powerful and deadly spell forbidden by the Council of Wizards. Complicating the situation is the return of the bloodsucking Black Court vampire Mavra, who wants Harry dead. Since she has magical powers, she might succeed in drinking a bloody toast at Harry's corpse.
The sixth Dresden File is the ultimate amalgam of fantasy, horror, and mystery similar to the best works of Laurell K. Hamilton and Tanya Huff. Harry suffers plenty of physical and ensorcelled trauma, but keeps on fighting as he believes in his cause. He also realizes that he really likes a certain pain in the butt Chicago police lieutenant so that in spite of the mundane and mystical assaults he feels pretty good about his life. Jim Butcher provides another triumphant tale that will garner him more readers wanting the next Dresden file.
Harriet Klausner
Book Review: More Harry situations...
Summary: 5 Stars
Wowsers. Mr. Butcher just keeps raising the bar in this series. I found this book to be the most rewarding and tightly-plotted of the Dresden books so far. Lots of questions are answered, while dangling plot threads from two and three books ago are woven back in. And yet, the more that's revealed about Harry's world (and his place in it), the more mysteries arise.
One particularly interesting and insightful bit (especially in a "fantasy" novel with vampires, magic and whatnot) is the commentary on the porno industry and its shaping of human expectations of sexual behavior and relationships for malevolent purpose. Some of the earlier books might be merely "fun reads," but this one tackles some issues that are worth talking about, and does so intelligently. And it does so in a, well, fun read.
Not to mention the characters' growth! Sheesh! Six books of Harry and Murphy, and we're still just scratching the surface. Well, we're a little deeper than the epidermis at this point (might actually be drawing blood, if you'll forgive the analogy), but you get the sense that there's still a long way to go yet before we really get to the meat...