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My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk. I'm a wizard. I work out of an office in midtown Chicago. As far as I know, I'm the only openly practicing professional wizard in the country. You can find me in the yellow pages, under Wizards. Believe it or not, I'm the only one there.
My ad looks like this:
HARRY DRESDEN--WIZARD
Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations.
Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates.
No Love Potions, Endless Purses, Parties
or Other Entertainment
With rent past due and a decent meal becoming an issue of some importance, Harry needs work, and soon. A call from a distraught wife, and another from Lt Murphy of the Chicago PD Special Investigation Unit makes Harry believe things are looking up, but they are about to get worse, much worse. Someone is harnessing immense supernatural forces to commit a series of grisly murders. Someone has violated the first law of magic: Thou Shalt Not Kill. Tracking that someone takes Harry into the dangerous underbelly of Chicago, from mobsters to vampires, while he himself is under suspicion of the crimes. One thing is certain, if he can't stop whoever is on this killing spree, Harry will be the next victim.
My ad looks like this:
HARRY DRESDEN--WIZARD
Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations.
Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates.
No Love Potions, Endless Purses, Parties
or Other Entertainment
With rent past due and a decent meal becoming an issue of some importance, Harry needs work, and soon. A call from a distraught wife, and another from Lt Murphy of the Chicago PD Special Investigation Unit makes Harry believe things are looking up, but they are about to get worse, much worse. Someone is harnessing immense supernatural forces to commit a series of grisly murders. Someone has violated the first law of magic: Thou Shalt Not Kill. Tracking that someone takes Harry into the dangerous underbelly of Chicago, from mobsters to vampires, while he himself is under suspicion of the crimes. One thing is certain, if he can't stop whoever is on this killing spree, Harry will be the next victim.
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Chris B. (
12 member(s) found this review helpful.
This is the best book Ive read this year. Fast paced, action packed, funny and just plain well written. Butcher is another writer who makes you believe. His characters especially Dresden are so well written that its almost as if you could grab a Chicago phone book and really look him up. BIG 5 out of 5
Val D. (
9 member(s) found this review helpful.
I truly enjoyed this book! I'd heard great things from a friend, and had seen the SCIFI TV series, but was unsure of how the reading would go; turns out I couldn't put it down! I truly enjoyed the book, and perhaps my perception is a little biased based on my finding enjoyment out of the TV series, but I highly recommend trying this series to anyone who enjoys supernatural or wizardry novels. (It may not be a "forgotten realms" series, but I believe readers of those type novels would enjoy this as well.) I really enjoyed it and plan to read the rest of the very long series, but I truly believe if you are at all interested in the book by its description or what you've heard about it, you WILL enjoy it! It keeps moving and blends all the humor, intrigue, adventure, la la together. It does of course require telling the reader the universe, but I never noticed any "information dumps" or lost any understanding or enjoyment as Butcher very cleverly kept the story moving and didn't leave the readers behind or waiting. Conclusion: Wonderful read. Highly recommended. Truly enjoyable.
Elizabeth R. (
5 member(s) found this review helpful.
Harry Dresden is a wizard who works as a sort of paranormal P.I. Although a little geeky, Harry has a strong sense of justice and an enjoyable tongue in cheek sense of humor. When a nervous wife hires Harry to find out what her frequently disappearing husband is up to, Harry happily takes the case because it means that he can pay his already late rent for the month. Little does he know that his investigation will open up not a can of worms but a can of scorpions along with conjuring a toad-like demon, commanded by an evil magic-wielding bad guy who wants to kill Harry.
This series has been around for a while and has been adapted for a television series. I regret not reading it sooner. Harry is a likable character, and his sidekicks (such as Bob the talking skull and Mister the giant cat) inject a healthy dose of humor into the book. This book has it all - a mystery to solve, LOL comedy, hints of romance, and lots of "spell"-binding (ha ha) action. Highly recommended!
Jamie Lynn M. (
4 member(s) found this review helpful.
Thank you book gods! This is the very sort of book I want to read. After putting off reading Jim Butcher for far too long (and everyone insisting I wouldn't be sorry) I finally got Storm Front. I devoured it in a day and I can't wait to tackle the rest of the series. This book pulls you in and makes you want more of Harry Dresden's world and his adventures. We're off to a fantastic start, Mr. Butcher and I look forward to the rest of your work.
Karen F. (
4 member(s) found this review helpful.
Fun series, nice debut book. There are some character development issues to address in the series with the secondary characters, but since this is the first one, it's forgiveable. Well plotted with lots of action, this is a supernatural hardboiled mystery.
Charlene V. (
3 member(s) found this review helpful.
I enjoyed this book. Harry is an interesting character and I mean to read the others in this series. The SciFi channel has some shows now this this character but they have changed a few things (don't they always) but not a bad show. Read the books, they're even better.
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
This is a fantastic book and a quick ('cause you'll never want to put it down) read. It is a cross between a typical "whodunnit" and a bit of a fantasy book thrown in. Even those who hate fantasy, as my DP does, seem to like this book.
Robin M. (
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
Harry Dresden is a wizard helping the police solve a double-homicide. Interesting start to the series. It really pulls the reader in. Highly recommended!
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
I was prepared to be disappointed with this book, since it was quite hyped among my friends. However, I was pleasantly surprised. Harry is a likable, believable character that one can cheer for. I can't wait to read more!
Wendy S. (
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
Of course this book came highly recommended and with the television series I felt the need to read it before watching the show. I am glad that I did as I really enjoyed it and feel like I know Harry now. A bit of a flawed hero that I really like. I look forward to reading more of the series as well as finally watching the television show.
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Mark J. (I was surprised that I didn't love this book. I didn't quite hate it, but I didn't enjoy it either. I found it to be fairly two-dimensional and flat. The secondary characters were literary stereotypes. I found Harry, the main character annoying. I am very disappointed. The book came highly recommended, but ultimately, it did not meet my expectations.
I love Harry!!!! He cracked me up through out this book!!! I love Vampires and Warewolves, but don't care for witches, I had never read anything about Wizards, how fun!!! Can't wait for Full Moon to get to me so I can read it too!
This is the 1st in a wonderful series of books about a modern day wizard and his exploits. I was immediately addicted to the character, Harry Dresden, and all of his wacky friends and couldn't wait to read the next in the series ( I believe the total is up to 12 books now). Each one is just as enjoyable as Dresden battles vampires, faeres, ghosts, trolls, wizards, zombies, and all manner of magical and human characters with daring and above all - humor! I absolutely love this series. And, although it was a tv series on SciFi for one season, I tried to watch on Hulu and couldnt get through the 1st episode. It wasn't the Harry Dresden that is in the books. Skip the tv series but DON'T skip this series.
Kerry B. (A battle of good vs evil wages unseen beneath our normal mortal world. The book reads very quick. I read and reposted within 24 hours.
At times, Harry Dresden's repetitious pondering made me want to scan forward. (likely derived from author Jim Butcher's need to make Harry's motivation crystal clear in book one)
The characters remind me of the TV series "Charmed" that first aired in October of 1998. Harry Dresden uses Bob(skull which contains old spirit)instead of Book of Shadows to keep track of spells. Harry is overseen by White Council instead of Whitelighters. Harry's sympathetic and supernaturally naive police connection is Karrin Murphy instead of Darryl Morris. Harry is a wizard from Chicago instead of a witch from San Francisco. Halliwell sisters use power of three to focus power. Harry uses any immediately available powerful emotion, more often than not, this is fear and anxiety.
An entertaining light read. The story is simple to follow, a good book if you are on the run.
For a supernatural detective type story, Laurell K Hamilton's first Anita Blake books are better written.
Trevor N. (I'm not sure why this book would get 4 stars on amazon, but it does. Storm Front is tiresome and poorly written. I didn't enjoy it at all.
This book was a choice for my mystery book club. I am literal and found this book to be too abstract for me. There were members who loved it.
I found this book to be incredibly boring. The hero, Harry Dresden, is a piddling wizard who needs a faery spirit to help create all potions. He is more like a bungling idiot than a wizard. In every chapter of the book, someone or something is out to kill him. Harry didn't have a prayer of investigating the magical homicides for always trying to protect himself mentally and/or physically from all the attacks. It was beyond annoying to try to read this book and figure out the mystery with all the beating interruptions.
Christine H. (Great First book. I love the Dresden Files and the series only gets better from here.
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