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Summary: Another success for Jim Butcher
Review: The second book in the series about Harry Dresden is a resounding success. (IMHO) Despite the backlash of the events of the first novel, (Storm Front) Harry presses on to discover who is repsonsible for a series of gruesome murders that appear to have been committed by a werewolf.This story gives us a little more detail on Harry's background and opens many a question and line of investigation for Harry. (Its all about the parents...) This book was a pleasure to read and will remain with the 'keepers' of my library. Mr. Butcher has produced a well plotted and tightly written yarn that is sure to delight.
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Summary: Butcher gets better
Review: The second book in the series of the Dresdin files series as far as I am concerned is a easier read than the first one. It still contains a little to much going over some things from the first book, but it did keep my attention more then the first and it had some good action sequences that was well described with out to much descriptions into areas not needed which I feel this author seems to do a lot of. I have found that both books, one and two of this series really takes off after the first half of the book. It is at the last part that you then want to read on.
This one made me want to start book three after I had finished it.
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Summary: Cry Wolf
Review: There are many kinds of wolves in the world, and not all of them are human. Not even those that walk on two legs. Someone, someTHING, is shredding people in Chicago, leaving behind huge doggy footprints painted in the blood of the victims. Oh, and of course, it's round about full moon time. Reluctantly Karrin Murphy, Director of Special Investigations for the Chicago P.D., has had to call in Harry Dresden, professional wizard. Not that she trusts him much anymore after the way he left her hanging the last time they worked together. But he's the only with the knowledge and special skills she'll need if she has to deal with a werewolf on the loose. In this second volume of his exciting new "Dresden Files" series, Jim Butcher has packaged up another action-filled detective story with a mystical twist. Like any good gumshoe thriller, "Fool Moon" has a plot full of peril, false leads, near misses, and all the usual (and unusual) suspects. Like any good fantasy tale, it has a believable, well-developed mythology. The reader comes away with an arcane education--werewolf lore, potion-cooking, demon-summoning. As narrator, Harry Dresden lets his audience in on all the little trade secrets of the practicing mage. Now, if only he could learn to be so candid with his colleagues and friends.... In the final analysis, "Fool Moon" is more about learning to trust than about foiling werewolves, more about self discovery than arcane knowledge, more about the demons in Harry's heart than those in his summoning circle. In other words, it is about Harry Dresden himself, a hero of pure intention, tremendous power, and courage in the face of unspeakable danger, who just happens to be afraid to meet his own eyes in the mirror. He infers the blackness of his own soul from the reactions of others brash or foolish enough to meet his gaze. And he fears that the kind of knowledge that has so blackened him will be at least as destructive to others. Harry's struggle to come to terms with himself and those he cares about, his faltering advances and all-too-frequent backslides, are what really keep the reader turning the pages. They are also what keep Harry half a step behind the villains until it is almost too late. If you like action, mystery, magic, or just watching the growth of a compelling character, you'll want to read "Fool Moon."
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Summary: NICELY DONE. I APPLAUD BUTCHER'S GENIUOS.
Review: This book is the 2nd book in the DRESDEN FILES. A wizard P.I. (who is the only wizard in the phone bookand needs money badly)Dresden gets a call from a paranormal homocide cop, who thinks she has a werewolf killer in her hands. Sounds simple. Not so. There are more than three different kinds in this book and all of them are suspect to the murder. There's a lady that likes Dresden and is a paranormal news reporter, a mob boss who wants Dreden on his payroll as a 'bodyguard' and a young fledgling wizard. Dresden's ideas of how a lady should be treated made me smile and telling the story in the 1ST person made it all the better.(1ST: me, I and my)I hate it when a book jumps around from character to character. Reminds me of the VAMPIRE FILES by P. N. Elrod.
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Summary: The most exciting book I have read in decades!
Review: This is the most exciting book I have read in decades. I am now trying Laurell Hamilton's Anita Blake series and it is great; and I have always loved the Angel vampire detective series based on the tv show and the Sixth Sense series (intermediate reading level) based on the kid in the movie; but FOOL MOON is the novel that all others would be measured against.It's a Frank Sinatra in a room full of barking dogs.
And do not miss Naked Came the Sasquatch by John Boston!
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Summary: I'ts official ,I like this series.
Review: This is the second Harry Dresden book in the series of a wizard. I really like Harry he can really be tough when he has to be, but really caring and protective when his close friends and associates need his help. Karin Murphy of the police dept. has asked for his help in solving some very vicious and grusome crimes, which lead to the association of Tera and few locals of the werewolves of a couple of tribes. This book is a little harder to follow to keep all the people straight,but if you keep on reading and following the story he nicely bring everything to a nice closing. He can still show a lady a very exciting evening. I really want him to get together with Susan the local reporter they really make a nice couple, and I like Karin to, and I would like to see more of of Tera and the local werewolves. Now I have to read the next book in my collection of Harry Dresden.
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Summary: Great follow up to the first book in this series
Review: This is turning into a very enjoyable series. Harry Dresden, wizard and main charcter of this novel is very well written and likeable. He's fallible and has his limits, but he's also not someone you'd want to cross the wrong way lightly. This book is about a werewolf "invasion" of Chicago. People start dying messily on the full moon and it doesn't take long for it to click with Harry and Detective Murphy from the Special Unit of the Police that "werwolves" are the most likely culpret. However if you are the police, no matter how messy it is that's not really the sort of conculsion you can come out with publicly. And besides, there are more than one type of werewolf and silver doesn't always do the job of stopping them. This is more violent than the first book, but you also get some more insights into Harry's past and Harry also realises that he has been taking the wrong approch to some things in his present. If it keeps up it's current quality, this is a series I intend to an eye out for.
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Summary: Jim Butcher does it again!!
Review: Well, I have loved the first book on Dresden Files and, you know, a sequel ei not mormaly as good as the first one. But this time, it was even better. We are learning more about Harry Dresden as the book goes, and the more I learn about him, the more I like him. Definitively, a great book, better than the first one.
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Summary: A Wizard Named Harry & A Special Investigation Unit
Review: Well, not exactly the wizard at the top of the children's reading list - closer to X-Files with a bit of humor. However, this is an imaginative spin on the ever after battle of good vs. evil, with the wizard Harry Dresden (who isn't really 'nother one Harry grown up). Unique and darkly magical, the author
obviously has a grand time weaving a scary spell of a story, having license to throw in ... unexpected elements. Harry Dresden walks a fine line between the Nevernever and the criminal side of Chicago, practicing his idiosyncratic magical talents within the boundaries and principles of each world. Will he forfeit his own mortality for the greater good? Humorous or seriously scary, the adventures of this wizard named Harry are close enough to life to make you wonder at times. Haphazard and hard on electronics, Harry has issues with cars, computers, as well as a fat cat named Mister (that the author gets Just Right with the "mrow" and the wizard tumping shoulder butt) and a nasty minded skull named Bob. Alchemy and potions, demons and handcuffs, maybe a little too much - but clever. I enjoyed it and look forward to Fool Moon.
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Summary: A sophomore effort, but still great fun...
Review: When I told my wife that this book was even more action-packed than the first title in the series, Storm Front, she looked at me and said, "You're kidding." As much of a roller-coaster ride as Storm Front was, Fool Moon seems to be going twice as fast, in three times as many directions. The premise, again, is that Harry Dresden--who seems as if he were written by the love-child of Dashiell Hammett and JK Rowling--is the only real wizard in the Chicago phone book; he's a contractor with the Chicago PD (though his relationship with the department is somewhat strained since he withheld information from his buddy, Detective Murphy, in the previous book).
Having said that, Fool Moon feels a bit formulaic. I'm not giving anything away by saying that all of the nasties in the book are variations on the werewolf mythologem. Early on, Harry discovers that there are a certain number of such variations, and, lo and behold, that's exactly how many different kinds of baddy he's up against. Too, Harry spends much of the book promising to tell Murphy everything that's happening, and then either going off on a quest-lette without telling her, or holding back critical pieces of information. I began wanting to hit Harry over the head and tell him he had a commitment problem.
Even so, Mr. Butcher spins the tale wonderfully, at a breathtaking pace. Neither I nor my wife was able to figure out exactly who was behind everything until very late in the game, and, even then, the plot took some unexpected twists. Even with some of its shortcomings, Fool Moon is full of surprises, serendipitous moments of wonder, a little romance (provided by fringe journalist Susan Rodriguez, who seems to want to recreate Harry in the fashion image of The Matrix's Neo), a couple of wild action sequences (one that takes place in a Chicago police station shows Butcher's willingness to go WAY outside the lines) and hints of pieces of Harry's past, and of things to come in this still-promising series.
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