Battle Ground
The Dresden Files 17
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4.6 • 104 Ratings
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Publisher Description
THINGS ARE ABOUT TO GET SERIOUS FOR HARRY DRESDEN, CHICAGO'S ONLY PROFESSIONAL WIZARD, in the next entry in the No. 1 New York Times and No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling Dresden Files.
Harry has faced terrible odds before. He has a long history of fighting enemies above his weight class. The Red Court of vampires. The fallen angels of the Order of the Blackened Denarius. The Outsiders.
But this time it's different. A being more powerful and dangerous on an order of magnitude beyond what the world has seen in a millennium is coming. And she's bringing an army. The Last Titan has declared war on the city of Chicago, and has come to subjugate humanity, obliterating any who stand in her way.
Harry's mission is simple but impossible: Save the city by killing a Titan. And the attempt will change Harry's life, Chicago, and the mortal world forever.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
With this urban fantasy blockbuster, Butcher swiftly pays off on the major cliffhanger from Peace Talks, launching wizard Harry Dresden and the city of Chicago into a no-holds-barred battle. As the previous work ended, the Fomor King Corb and the Last Titan, Ethniu, daughter of Balor, threw down the gauntlet to the assembled supernatural nations, who had gathered for peace talks. Mere hours later, Fomor forces rise out of Lake Michigan and besiege Chicago with the intention of killing everyone in the city. What follows is an "epic mythology fight" in which nearly every living friend or foe to have appeared in a previous Dresden novel fights either alongside or against Harry, with some nasty new enemies arriving on the scene as well. The battle is unrelenting as Ethniu's army levels city blocks and kills thousands. Harry begins this volume still able to toss off his usual wisecracks, but he turns grim as the toll of battle mounts and the physical, magical, and emotional blows keep coming. Butcher doesn't neglect his usual narrative sleight of hand, either while the war rages, he sets up several subplots sure to play out in future installments. This is urban fantasy at its best, combining spectacular magic and deeply explored character.
Customer Reviews
battleground
Best read ever , Jim Butcher just gets better with every book . Highly recommend this book it’s a real Page turner .
I never thought….
……that the perfect book existed. By accident, or maybe magic, a whole series of them appeared, just when they were most needed.
Thank you Mr Butcher. Thank you very much. Thank you for a world to escape into, whenever this one became tiresome, or sad or just plain too much.
Thrice I have thanked you and I believe I will be revisiting this series many more times than that.
Start at the beginning, fellow reader, focus and concentrate, and allow yourself to be drawn into Jim Butcher’s world of Wizards, Warlocks and wonder.
Fix format
The total number of pages is the number is what it says is left in this chapter.. “520 pages left in this chapter” “513 pages left in this chapter”
It’s super annoying when I’m in bed reading and seeing if I should start a new chapter or stop / keep reading to get it finished.
Get it sorted please