Jim Butcher Ghost Story, Matthew Stover Caine Love, DEFIANT at Dungeon Manual
Second week of Dungeon Manual, a boring unrecommendable blog I’ve been working. This week I talked about NPR’s Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy poll, discussing 5 books that really tug at me that I didn’t see in the top 100. I’ve received some feedback and surprised and relieved at the Caine love I’ve seen. [...]
Changes by Jim Butcher – review
Private detective, full-time wizard Harry Dresden is back and faces some strange changes indeed in Jim Butcher’s exciting, page-turning twelfth novel in his Dresden Files series of books, Changes. This is the second review of the novel at this site, because the paperback is just out, and I managed to score a copy of it. [...]
Side Jobs by Jim Butcher – review
Side Jobs, the most recently published Dresden Files book by Jim Butcher, is a compilation of short stories, most previously published in other anthologies or elsewhere. For a Harry Dresden fan, this is a treasure trove. I would not, however, recommend this to a Harry newbie, as many of these stories take place between the [...]
Changes by Jim Butcher – review
In Jim Butcher’s 12th Dresden Files novel, Changes, the title says it all. For the most part, a serial story such as this requires that the protagonist be pretty much the same person throughout while his or her scenery changes. Otherwise an author cannot continue to pull in the loyalty of the fans. They may [...]
Preview – The Dresden Files: Storm Front #1 (Vol 2)
This is a 5-page preview for the first issue (vol 2) of The Dresden Files: Storm Front that wil be in stores on July 22nd.
Check it out after the jump . . .
Book Review – Turn Coat by Jim Butcher
Jim Butcher’s Turn Coat, the eleventh volume of his Harry Dresden series was another good adventure. Each successive book has moved further away from the almost carefree beginnings of Harry Dresden’s Wizard career. Each one a bit darker as more secrets are revealed and more evil is shown for what it is in Harry’s Chicago. This time around Harry finds himself in the position of having to help Morgan, the man who would have destroyed him but for a technicality . . .
A Jim Butcher Signing Report
On April 11, 2009 Jim Butcher did a signing of his latest book Turn Coat at a Barnes and Noble in Omaha. I was fortunate enough to go with a couple of friends . . .
Book Review – Small Favor
Author: Jim Butcher Cover Artist: Janson Publisher: ROC Binding: Paperback Publication Date: April 2008 Small Favor, the 10th book in Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files is another tale full of Harry Dresden’s wisecracking and wizardry. In this episode, Harry has been recruited by Mab, Queen of Winter to find and rescue the mob boss, Johnny Marcone. [...]
Book Review – Storm Front (audio book)
Author: Jim Butcher Read By: James Marsters Produced: Buzzy Multimedia Jim Butcher’s Storm Front is the first of the Dresden Files, a noir detective series with a twist. Harry Dresden is a detective who also happens to be a wizard. He operates out of a modest office in Chicago. He helps the police with special [...]
Book Review – White Knight
Author: Jim Butcher Publisher: ROC Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: April 2007 White Knight by Jim Butcher is the ninth book of The Dresden Files. This latest finds wizard Harry Dresden trying to solve several apparent suicides. Harry’s cop friend Karrin Murphy believes they were murder and calls in Harry to find out what happened to [...]
Book Review – Storm Front
Author: Jim Butcher Cover Artist: Lee MacLeod Publisher: ROC Binding: Paperback Publication Date: April 2000 Harry Dresden is the only practicing wizard in Chicago and he’s the real deal. But business hasn’t been up to much lately, so when the police ask him to consult on a double murder, committed by black magic, he’s seeing [...]
