Great and Awesome at the same time | Storm Front (The Dresden Files, Book 1)

A fun read | Storm Front (The Dresden Files, Book 1) | Jim Butcher

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	• Storm Front (The Dresden Files, Book 1) Jim Butcher Roc, 2000 - 336 pages average customer review:based on 290 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Buy them all NOW!

These books are great so do youself a favor and buy them all now! If you love science fiction you will love these books. The author is funny, witty and holds your interest from cover to cover. I ordered the complete set and read through it in a week! I hope they bring the television series back to SciFi. It is more entertaining a series that SciFi brought back, Dr. Who, or as I call it "the doctor's non habit forming sleep remedy"! I'm going to reread them soon since I enjoyed them so much! I'm sure there were things I missed on the first go around. I'm also looking forward to the next book in the series.

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Great and Awesome at the same time

This book was awesome. It was a cool interpretation of Magic, and well, I liked it alot. Definitely a page turner.

A fun read

A nice distraction from everyday life. Easy to read and hard to put down; especially if one is looking for a page turner to bring to the beach.

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A Great Beginning to a Series

I called my friend M today. I hated to do it, but I had to tell her that her husband was right: I DO like the Dresden Files books by Jim Butcher. At the very least, I liked the first of them.

Harry Dresden is a wizard who advertises his services in the phone book. Not surprisingly, he is the only wizard in the phone book, so he gets a fair share of nut jobs calling him. This time, however, he gets two calls right after the other: one from a local detective looking for his help and another from a woman who is trying to find her husband. The detective is calling about a double murder using magic - and Harry is the only local wizard powerful enough to do it. He is under pressure from the human police and the wizard police because they *both* think he's responsible. Along the way, there is a girl and some interesting fights and meetings with otherworldly creatures.

Initially, I thought this was a male version - and rip off - of Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake. The whole being on retainer to the police, the adversarial relationship with some of the police force and then being a magical creature himself. After I read a few pages, I more or less got over that. The writing is more Sam Spade-like than LKH, which can be distracting at first. Again, once I got a few pages into it, that fell by the wayside and I just enjoyed the book.

The character development isn't that great but that's often true of first books. Lieutenant Karrin Murphy is fairly one-dimensional as is Dresden's love interest, Susan Rodriguez. To compare again to LKH, that was true of Dolph and Jean Claude until at least the 3rd book of the series, so I think there's hope. There are (I think) 10 in this series, thus far, so I'm sure Butcher gets better in that arena. He did well enough this time that I want to continue to read the series.

I'm a fan of series book and this promises to be one that I'll continue.

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Love This Guy!

My sister told me about these and I am very happy she did. Great stories, great characters, nice twists.

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