Proven Guilty (The Dresden Files, Book 8) by Jim Butcher Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Proven Guilty (The Dresden Files, Book 8)
Book Review: Outstanding read
Summary: 4 Stars
I don't know where to place this series as the only some what similar series is Simon R Green's 'Nightside" which is not all that close.
Nicely done complex plot with a number of issues being resolved. Very well done characters including an arrogant vampire and a cute chickie. Lots of complex plotting and politics between the fay courts and the White Council as well.
Overall and outstanding read! I strongly recommend reading at least a couple of other books in the series as it will make more sense and they are all very good reads.
Book Review: First Time Reader and I'm hooked
Summary: 5 Stars
Can't wait for the next book (White Night). This was the first novel that I've read from Jim Butcher and I can say that it was surprising, intriguing and entertaining.
I'm more of a techie sci-fi kind of guy who really likes space ships and lasers and such, but sometimes I come across a fantasy series that just rocks and this is one of them. Butcher makes Dresden feel like he fits in our world, as it is today, not a fantasy world only reachable by flying horses with bird heads and broom sticks.
Since I read this book I've already read the 7th book in the series (Dead Beat)and really liked that book as well.
This is a bloody, nightmarish, grown up world with problems from social and political human issues to Vampire, Troll and other nasty things that go 'bump in the night' causing death, murder, and mayhem.
Book Review: Love the series!
Summary: 4 Stars
I was in no hurry to start the series until I heard about the show on the Sci Fi Channel. I bought the first book, was hooked and bought 2-8. The series keeps getting better and better, while not becoming lame or boring like a certain fantasy series.
The wife and sone are hooked. However, because I'm a fast reader and I bought the books, I get first crack, then my wife and my son comes last. :D
The wife is planning to read this book all day today. She wants to wait for White Night to come out in paperback, but I think I'm gonna get the hardcover now.
I'd love to see the last 2 books become a movie, adhering to the book, unlike the show.
Book Review: Terrific series all the way
Summary: 5 Stars
_Proven Guilty_ itself isn't, in my opinion, a 5-star book. I save a 5-star rating for the best of the best. In the case of this review, I've given the series itself a 5-star rating for what the Navy used to call Sustained Superior Performance. All eight Dresden Files books have been solid 4-star books -- 4 stars being the best I usually give.
For a series to earn 5 stars from me is pretty unprecedented. The characters in a series are prone to fall one of two ways, in my experience. Either they solidify into dullness; or they morph into caricature. The authors of series books are at high risk for boredom. After a while, many of them stop caring about the stories, and just start slapping them together willy-nilly. Or, in an attempt to keep things fresh, they change the characters too much, too quickly, and in ways we readers find unbelievable.
Jim Butcher has avoided these traps with the Dresden Files. In book #8, the writing is as good as it ever was -- oh, I grant you, they aren't high literature -- but they are excellent stories, told very well. And Butcher is still clearly *writing* these stories, not just phoning them in. The characters have remained fresh and interesting. They change -- but always in ways that seem believable and are supported within the text. Each book has left me eager to read the next one. Not just out of nostalgia for beloved characters, as is the case with so many other series I've read -- but, actively *eager* to see what will happen next.
Terrific books -- just terrific. I can't recommend them highly enough.
Book Review: There's a new cop in town...
Summary: 5 Stars
...and much to everyone's surprise, it's Dresden himself. With the war against the red vampire court not going well, the white council has drafted him for the good fight. And his first assignment is to track down some evil magik in Chicago being thrown around by person(s) unknown.
Complicating this is a horror convention where the characters from the movies are coming out and killing attendees. They're fear fetches from the Nevernever, but how are they getting through?
And complicating that is the request from the eldest daughter of Dresden's friend Michael, one of the three knights of the swords of the Cross, to bail out a friend and help him.
And when the daughter gets kidnapped, and the sources of the fetches becomes clear; well as you would expect, it gets really complicated....
As with all the Dresden Files books, this one is full of sci-fi references for the fans (it took me three hours for one to come to me), fast action, and great characters. I love the fact that this series can be read as stand alones, but there is a consistant story line that runs through them all. A great read that makes me sorry it's over, even as I snatch as much reading time as I can to enjoy it all the more quickly.