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: A great series.
Summary: 4 Stars
With a blend of gore, humor and pathos we learn more of Harry background while he fights the monsters. For those who like woo-woo with their mystery, this is a great series which keeps getting better, and is best read in order.Book Review: An excellent installment in the life of Harry Dresden
Summary: 5 Stars
Once again, Jim Butcher does not disappoint. This series has evolved into a riveting read. I will not summerize the plot, since other reviewers have done it so well, but I would like to comment on the type of story.
This books begins to read like the original Anita Blake books did, only without the repetitive phrasing. It is a great blend of humor, adventure, and action. There is action galore in this book. So much action, in fact, that when reading before bedtime I couldn't find a good stopping point. I had to just keep reading and reading until I fell asleep in the middle of a chapter. It was a very entertaining read.
In the previous books, Harry was the only well-defined character, while all the supporting cast seemed rather cardboard. In Blood Rites, Mr. Butcher begins to flesh out the supporting characters. Thomas, Murphy, and Ebeneezer begin to act more like real "people" as opposed to the one-dimensional things whose only purpose is to push the plot along. I also found Kincaid to be a great addition to the cast. I look forward to seeing more of him in the future, hopefully with an unraveling of his history.
Finally, I would like to say that I was hooked from the first book in the series, but I found Blood Rites to be the most well-written in the series. I eagerly await the next installment in the Harry's saga.
Book Review: That poor poor guy
Summary: 5 Stars
An excellent series and hopefully on going. Harry Dresden the only Wizard in the phone book cannot catch a break, vampires hate him, demons are after him, his fellow wizards would rather see him get killed then deal with his maverick (but moral) attitudes, and to top it all his only friend is a knight of god who wont shut up about all the swearing!!Book Review: Way to go!
Summary: 5 Stars
I think there's no question about it: 'Blood rites' is the best in the series so far. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love the whole series and Harry Dresden is quickly becoming one of my favorite male characters. However, this latest book is finally giving some substance to characters who previously were either too good to be true, too bad to actually take seriously, or to sketchy to care. For those who are only now discovering the series: Harry is a wizard who has to make a living in a world that doesn't believe in wizards, and also to discover his past, which is clouded in mystery and violent death. As a private investigator and occasional consultant for a special division of Chicago police, Harry has already had his share of encounters and supernatural adventures in the five previous books. He had to fight a renegade practitioner of the black arts, ghosts, vampires, werewolfs, faeries, fallen angels, not to mention his very own White Council of wizards, for whom his own past (which they seem to know a lot better than Harry) is an almost certain ticket to painful execution.
In this book, Harry has to figure out who is behind an entropy curse hitting actors in a porn movie business, but also to deal with unexpected and not altogether pleasant truths about his past. The action acquires a more interesting, darker side, that promises great character development, not only for Harry, but also for Murphy, who is finally shown to be more than a slightly obsessive fighting babe with no personal life and an inflexible sense of justice. I absolutely loved the plot from the beginning to the end, despite the fact that the author seemed to have forgotten that Harry actually shared a soulgaze with Ebenezar [according to book 4 in the series], which should have prepared Harry for most revelations about his teacher in book 6 - unless I really don't understand how a soulgaze works.
I also hope that Jim won't give in to the temptation of making the series allegedly more 'appealing' by destroying the plot and adding lots of sex, as it unfortunately happened to the Anita Blake series. Although Harry is not getting any and I think the author could take some pity in the future [c'mon Jim, how would you feel if you had to spend a year with only a cat and a skull as company? :)], I really really like Harry just the way he is.
Book Review: Fast paced, fun, and very entertaining!
Summary: 5 Stars
Halfway through reading Butcher's first Dresden novel, Storm Front, I bought the whole series. I couldn't put them down, reading the whole lot over just a couple of weeks. As with all his books, Blood Rites is fast paced, entertaining, and great fun. As Chicago's only professional wizard Harry takes on the cases that no one else can handle (nor would most want to). His juvenile wise cracks, self-depreciating humor, and overdeveloped sense of responsibility make a likeable hero out of a guy who'd be extraordinarily powerful if he could just get out of his own way.
This time the White vampire (incubus) Thomas asks our hero to put a stop to an entropy spell that is plaguing Arturo Genosa, his porn director friend before any more of his associates die from the curse. The plot has some interesting twists (e.g., revealing more about Harry's family history and blood relations) and the characterizations and dialog are up to Butcher's fabulous standards. Even the bit characters like the mercenary Kincaid are well developed and great fun. I suspect that the dog foreshadows interesting possibilities for the next book too. The relationship between Dresden and Murphy matures realistically and well in keeping with their personas.
Blood Rites is another outstanding tome in an incredible series. There are a whole lot of entries in the whole supernatural alternate reality genre thing, yet as other writers tend to become stale over time Butcher continues to crank out fresh, fascinating novels. Wholeheartedly recommended!