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Summary: Even better than the first!!
Review: Jim Butcher has a lovely Chandleresque writing style and it just gets better with time. Fool Moon is a few months after Storm Front and Harry's fallen out of the fire and into the frying pan, helping his friend Murphy track down some werewolf killers. We learn a bit more about his past, his history and his (bad) relationships with women. Harry somewhat reminds me of Robert B. Parker's Spenser -- action oriented with a sarcastic mouth. Just throw in some magic and a talking skull named Bob. Fool Moon is a bang-up, knock-down fun ride and you shouldn't miss it.
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Summary: Way Past kewl sequel!!
Review: Man this sequel was awesome. It expanded on the first book without having all that unnecessary recap junk. The characters, especially Harry & Marcone were vividly real. There was far more action in this book than in the last it seemed but that didn't make the book any less awesome. The new characters were also intruiging and hopefully we'll see more of them, especially the Alphas. My only complaint was that there was only a passing mention of Bianca. Hopefully she'll be in the next book. I'm desperatly awaiting the 3rd book!!
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Summary: Decent plot
Review: Sadly, however, Harry is no Anita Blake. And equally sadly, his world does not seem to hold the trace of hope for a normal life that Anita's does... but the story itself is quite good, with interesting characters.
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Summary: Wizards and Werewolves
Review: Since this installment of the Dresden Files pretty much starts out with the discovery of a brutally mangled corpse with no weapon in evidence and a strange paw print by the body (all under a full moon, no less), I don't believe that the word "werewolf" constitues a spoiler. This book is such a great read. Is it predictable? Yeah. Is the plot a little needlessly convoluted? Oh yeah. So if those things bother you then SMACK YOURSELF IN THE HEAD A FEW TIMES AND READ THIS ANYWAY!! Sorry, was that out loud? Seriously, this book is fun in the same way that the old time movie serials were fun. There's a cliffhanger at the end of almost every chapter that will just keep you flipping pages til long after bed time. And the suspense is not in asking "will Harry make it out of this mess?" but rather in asking "how is he going to do it this time?" Yes, some of the things the characters do annoyed me, but at the same time they didn't come out of left field. Every character acts out of who they are, even when who they are is a bit of a dufus. So, if the idea of Terry Pratchett, J.K. Rowling, and Dashiell Hammitt somehow having a love-child makes you giggle with geeker joy then do yourself a favor and read this series.
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Summary: Heigh ho, here we go!
Review: Sometimes I don't want a heavy, thoughtfilled, expounding book. Sometimes I want complications tidied more or less up by the last page. Sometimes I want the main character's personal life to stay more or less intact. So sometimes I just prefer Harry Dresden and The Dresden Files. I turned to this series as an alternative to the increasingly weak and convoluted Anita Blake books. Theses mysteries don't forget they are mysteries. The dectective wizard stays a detective wizard. The book does not over reach itself or wander off from the plot. It's all that, plus Harry is a character I can like. I can root for him and not wonder what it is I'm rooting for. I care how things turn out for him in the end. And, not least of all, it's fun reading. It rollicks along like the best summer-mystery-read-on-a-blanket-in-the-sand. It keeps going. It turns corners and finds things. It manages to be surprising without being bizzare and it doesn't pretend that things not surprising should be surprising. Mr. Butcher is doing a good job in NOT overcomplicating Harry so that the character is constantly having to top himself each novel. He is keeping Harry a small fish in a big pond -- a clever, fast and occasionally lucky small fish with a few friends, but still small -- and that should sustain the ideas through a healthy series run.
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Summary: Werewolves: More than Harry wants to know
Review: Strange grisly murders. Pawprints on the scene. If you're the police, who do you call? Harry Dresden, wizard, of course. Time for our intrepid hero to earn his living and find out a bit more about magical wolves, first hand: hexenwolves, werewolves, lycanthropes, loup-garou? All are different, all are suspect. Once again Harry is helping his favorite cop, Lt. Murphy, and trying to keep her out of harm's way. Which is tough when she keeps close to him, and the facts begin to point to Harry as the chief suspect. Can Harry tell the good guys, or wolves, from the bad guys, and can he discover the identity of the ringleader before the police decide he really is the killer? Another dandy tale, with more about Harry's world of strange events and stranger characters. Did I mention before it's told in Harry's first-person voice? And filled with irony and humor? Try it, you'll like it.
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Summary: Supernatural Fiction at its' best
Review: The claw marks, footprint, and carnage look as if a werewolf is on the loose even though most Second City residents scoff at the notion of a shiftchanger. After working with wizard Harry Dresden on a previous case, Special Investigative Officer Karrin Murphy accepts that the supernatural is real. She believes a werewolf committed the killings. She turns to Harry as America's only wizard to come out of the closet to help her on the Chicago werewolf killings. However, Internal Affairs and the local FBI want Murphy and Dresden kept out of the investigation. The honorable Harry would love to walk away and allow the humans to make a mess of things, but in good conscience knows an "I told you so," means nothing. Harry and Karrin track the werewolf to environmentalist Harley MacFinn, but just because he is one doesn't necessarily mean he is the killer. Perhaps his shapechanging girlfriend or a teen group receiving special tutoring on the finer points of lycanthropy 101 is the culprits. As a dark side of a bruised Harry surfaces, he struggles to survive a war not of his making. Harry Dresden is a unique character in the urban fantasy sub-genre. Harry is a maverick whose mouth seems to get him in as much trouble as his actions. He is a smart know-it-all, but cannot stop himself from saving humanity in spite of mankind's ridicule. FOOL MOON is a fast-paced fascinating noir thriller that keeps readers interest so that the new fan will seek out the previous novel, STORM FRONT and the old reader will re-peruse their copy. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: re: A Harry Situation
Review: The Dresden Files are shaping up to be one of my favorite series of books. Harry is a winner of a character and his supporting cast are all winners. I'm usually not a fan of mobster subplots but they don't seem to bug me here. In this book, Harry has werewolf troubles and we soon find out there are different types of the beasties. All the different types come crashing out of the woodwork around Harry and he must battle his way out of some hairy situations. The supernatural/detective/fantasy angle of the stories is really well done. I've started "Grave Peril" and love it so far. The books seem to get darker and better as Butcher goes along. Harry Potter made me enjoy fantasy fiction more than I have in a long while and Harry Dresden is kicking my obsession into overdrive. I will read anything Butcher writes.
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Summary: Jim Butcher has a winner with Fool Moon
Review: The highest compliment I can give a book is its characters become real to me. Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden now lives with my other literary friends who have reached this status. Harry Dresden is an often misunderstood wizard. His heart is in the right place but people tend to misjudge him. Take Karrin Murphy, Director of Special Investigations for the Chicago Police Department. When a case comes across her desk that is supernatural in origin, Harry is her man. Unfortunately, she doesn't trust Harry because sometimes he isn't forthcoming with all the information she needs to solve the crime. She doesn't know Harry has to answer to the White Council, a "policeman" for those with supernatural ability and it's against the rules to let common mortals know about them. It doesn't help that most people don't believe in the supernatural and think Harry is a scam artist or worse. When corpses begin turning up with shredded and chewed up body parts, she has no choice but to turn to Harry again. It doesn't take Harry long to figure out a werewolf is killing people. Harry really wants to help out and stop the killings but roadblocks hamper his investigation at every turn. Throw in mobsters, being arrested, beat up, chased, confrontations with hungry werewolves, mad FBI agents,and nearly getting killed several times, and you have a glimpse of what Harry's life has turned into. All in all, a very good read and I recommend it very highly.
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Summary: Not just once in a blue moon
Review: The second book in the Harry Dresden series does it again: this time it's werewolves. Harry continues on his adventures as the most hard-boiled wizard in Chicago, it's fun and engaging. The characters that started in the first book grow here, Harry (really Bob, but you could have guessed that) gives you a great tutorial on werewolf theory, and there's a twisted, tricky mystery to solve.
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