This is Book 6 of The Dresden Files.
I continue to stand by a statement I have made before: the series keeps getting better.
As usual, Harry finds himself pressed from all angles by seemingly impossible and deadly circumstances. In this book he has to deal with Black Court Vampires, White Court Vampires, a nasty entropy curse that is targeting women at a porn movie set, and a hired mercenary that will have Harry killed if he doesn't pay his fee by Tuesday morning (Switzerland time, of course). And yet through all of that he still manages to keep his razor-sharp wit and biting sarcasm.
In addition to all of the action and intensity of the cases, Harry finds himself confronted with the ghosts and secrets of his past. This is the book where Harry learns about himself (and where we get to learn right along with him). So much is revealed in the last third of the book...details about Harry's mother, his family, the White Council, the way in which magic has been used and abused throughout the centuries.
This book leaves Harry in an emotionally interesting place and I think his character is so much better and more developed because of it. That is just one of the reasons I think that this installment the best Dresden Files book yet.
I continue to stand by a statement I have made before: the series keeps getting better.
As usual, Harry finds himself pressed from all angles by seemingly impossible and deadly circumstances. In this book he has to deal with Black Court Vampires, White Court Vampires, a nasty entropy curse that is targeting women at a porn movie set, and a hired mercenary that will have Harry killed if he doesn't pay his fee by Tuesday morning (Switzerland time, of course). And yet through all of that he still manages to keep his razor-sharp wit and biting sarcasm.
In addition to all of the action and intensity of the cases, Harry finds himself confronted with the ghosts and secrets of his past. This is the book where Harry learns about himself (and where we get to learn right along with him). So much is revealed in the last third of the book...details about Harry's mother, his family, the White Council, the way in which magic has been used and abused throughout the centuries.
This book leaves Harry in an emotionally interesting place and I think his character is so much better and more developed because of it. That is just one of the reasons I think that this installment the best Dresden Files book yet.
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