Fool Moon (The Dresden Files, Book 2) by Jim Butcher Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Fool Moon (The Dresden Files, Book 2)
Book Review: Great follow up to the first book in this series
Summary: 5 Stars
This is turning into a very enjoyable series. Harry Dresden, wizard and main charcter of this novel is very well written and likeable. He's fallible and has his limits, but he's also not someone you'd want to cross the wrong way lightly.This book is about a werewolf "invasion" of Chicago. People start dying messily on the full moon and it doesn't take long for it to click with Harry and Detective Murphy from the Special Unit of the Police that "werwolves" are the most likely culpret. However if you are the police, no matter how messy it is that's not really the sort of conculsion you can come out with publicly. And besides, there are more than one type of werewolf and silver doesn't always do the job of stopping them.
This is more violent than the first book, but you also get some more insights into Harry's past and Harry also realises that he has been taking the wrong approch to some things in his present.
If it keeps up it's current quality, this is a series I intend to an eye out for.
Book Review: Way Past kewl sequel!!
Summary: 4 Stars
Man this sequel was awesome. It expanded on the first book without having all that unnecessary recap junk. The characters, especially Harry & Marcone were vividly real. There was far more action in this book than in the last it seemed but that didn't make the book any less awesome. The new characters were also intruiging and hopefully we'll see more of them, especially the Alphas. My only complaint was that there was only a passing mention of Bianca. Hopefully she'll be in the next book. I'm desperatly awaiting the 3rd book!!Book Review: Even better than the first!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Jim Butcher has a lovely Chandleresque writing style and it just gets better with time. Fool Moon is a few months after Storm Front and Harry's fallen out of the fire and into the frying pan, helping his friend Murphy track down some werewolf killers. We learn a bit more about his past, his history and his (bad) relationships with women. Harry somewhat reminds me of Robert B. Parker's Spenser -- action oriented with a sarcastic mouth. Just throw in some magic and a talking skull named Bob. Fool Moon is a bang-up, knock-down fun ride and you shouldn't miss it.Book Review: NICELY DONE. I APPLAUD BUTCHER'S GENIUOS.
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is the 2nd book in the DRESDEN FILES. A wizard P.I. (who is the only wizard in the phone bookand needs money badly)Dresden gets a call from a paranormal homocide cop, who thinks she has a werewolf killer in her hands. Sounds simple. Not so. There are more than three different kinds in this book and all of them are suspect to the murder. There's a lady that likes Dresden and is a paranormal news reporter, a mob boss who wants Dreden on his payroll as a 'bodyguard' and a young fledgling wizard.Dresden's ideas of how a lady should be treated made me smile and telling the story in the 1ST person made it all the better.(1ST: me, I and my)I hate it when a book jumps around from character to character. Reminds me of the VAMPIRE FILES by P. N. Elrod.
Book Review: Fool Moon Rocks!
Summary: 5 Stars
It's official! Jim Butcher has a hit series on his hands. Fool Moon, the much anticipated second book in the Dresden Files series, does more than live up to fans' expectations: It exceeds them. This book rocks, fulfilling the lofty precedent set in Storm Front for fast paced action, witty dialogue, a riveting plotline, compelling characters and, most of all, it's endearing protagonist: Harry Dresden, a wisecracking gumshoe wizard with a heart of gold and just enough of a dark side to keep things real. Fool Moon returns to the alternate-reality version of modern day Chicago as introduced in book one, an unsettling yet exciting world of both everyday familiarity and film-noir style fantasy where chaos results when paranormal forces interact with a mostly disbelieving humanity. It's this disbelief that keeps business in a slump for Harry, the windy city's only professional wizard. Thankfully Lt. Karrin Murphy, head of the Chicago Police's Special Investigations unit, has experienced enough weirdness on Chi Town's mean streets to know that the paranormal threat is very real. Determined to save lives at all costs and faced with having to solve crimes that go beyond the scope of forensic science, Murphy usually turns to Harry for help. But in Fool Moon Harry discovers that Murphy is forced to risk her badge to bring him in on a murder investigation after an editorial in a local paper criticizes her use of public funds to hire a "charlatan psychic" and Internal Affairs begins probing into her suspected connection to the Chicago Mob through her past involvement with Harry.
Time is running out. Evidence found following a series of gruesome murders leads Harry to believe that a pack of werewolves is on the rampage in the city and with only a few nights of bright moonlight left, the wizard is in a race against the clock to put an end to the slaughter or lose the trail until the next full moon.
Fool Moon is solid entertainment that leaves readers with that all-too-rare sense of deep satisfaction that comes from getting your moneys worth. New readers will discover the thrill of riding shotgun with Harry and returning fans will enjoy the hints scattered throughout the novel that unearth more of Harry's rebel past, in particular a closer look at the events that lead to the Doom of Damocles, a form of probation placed on him by the White Council who oversee the ethical use of magic in the world of the mundane.
I look forward with great anticipation to the next book in the series, and to watching Jim Butcher become a household name in fantasy fiction.