50 by 2013, #6
Mar. 9th, 2012 06:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
indiana_j#6 Ghost Story by Jim Butcher
Yeah, yeah, I finally got around to reading this.
I bought this right around the time it came out last year and it's just ... sat there on my shelf. Why? Well, honestly, while Changes turned out better than I had expected, I was a little burnt out on Butcher. I finally just gave up the other day and grabbed #13 to read.
I immediately remembered why I loved the Harry Dresden universe. It's easy to get sucked in and with this being #13, it's kind of like connecting with an old friend again. Overall, I thought this was a good romp but nowhere near how good some of the other books were - I hope Butcher's not on a downward spiral. :(
This really, really felt like a transitional book (which IC it was but it shouldn't have felt like it, you know?). I felt that we got a lot of some characters (Molly and Butters; I will never complain about too much Butters, though, in any of these books) but got the short end of the stick with others (Karrin! Jesus, we couldn't have gotten a little more Murphy?). Also, to be honest, I'd completely forgotten who Corpsetaker was and that kind of threw me out of the book while I tried to remember.
Also, it seemed kind of repetitive in some spots. If I heard one more time how it was wrong to take Molly to Chichén Itzá because she was a sensitive, I was going to scream (we got it, what, three, four times?).
However, it was still fun and there were still some really powerful moments. I literally went "Holy crap, no way!" in the kitchen at work when I got to the chapter where you find out that Harry arranged his own murder. And the reunion scenes with both Mister and Mouse were wonderful and heartbreaking. And there were a lot of really great small moments.
But, over all, not my favorite Dresden novel and I hope that Cold Days returns to the awesome we experienced with the earlier novels.
Yeah, yeah, I finally got around to reading this.
I bought this right around the time it came out last year and it's just ... sat there on my shelf. Why? Well, honestly, while Changes turned out better than I had expected, I was a little burnt out on Butcher. I finally just gave up the other day and grabbed #13 to read.
I immediately remembered why I loved the Harry Dresden universe. It's easy to get sucked in and with this being #13, it's kind of like connecting with an old friend again. Overall, I thought this was a good romp but nowhere near how good some of the other books were - I hope Butcher's not on a downward spiral. :(
This really, really felt like a transitional book (which IC it was but it shouldn't have felt like it, you know?). I felt that we got a lot of some characters (Molly and Butters; I will never complain about too much Butters, though, in any of these books) but got the short end of the stick with others (Karrin! Jesus, we couldn't have gotten a little more Murphy?). Also, to be honest, I'd completely forgotten who Corpsetaker was and that kind of threw me out of the book while I tried to remember.
Also, it seemed kind of repetitive in some spots. If I heard one more time how it was wrong to take Molly to Chichén Itzá because she was a sensitive, I was going to scream (we got it, what, three, four times?).
However, it was still fun and there were still some really powerful moments. I literally went "Holy crap, no way!" in the kitchen at work when I got to the chapter where you find out that Harry arranged his own murder. And the reunion scenes with both Mister and Mouse were wonderful and heartbreaking. And there were a lot of really great small moments.
But, over all, not my favorite Dresden novel and I hope that Cold Days returns to the awesome we experienced with the earlier novels.