Proven Guilty
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4.7 • 886개의 평가
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Wizard for hire Harry Dresden has to track down the things that go bump in the night in this novel in Jim Butcher's #1 New York Times bestselling series.
There’s no love lost between Harry Dresden, the only wizard in the Chicago phone book, and the White Council of Wizards, who find him brash and undisciplined. But war with the vampires has thinned their ranks, so the Council has drafted Harry as a Warden and assigned him to look into rumors of black magic in the Windy City.
As Harry adjusts to his new role, another problem arrives in the form of the tattooed and pierced daughter of an old friend—all grown up and already in trouble. Her boyfriend is the only suspect in what looks like a supernatural assault straight out of a horror film. Malevolent entities that feed on fear are loose in Chicago, but it’s all in a day’s work for a wizard, his faithful dog, and a talking skull named Bob...
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Harry Dresden, Chicago's only consulting wizard, takes on phobophages, creatures that feed on fear who attack a horror film convention, in the diverting eighth installment of Butcher's increasingly complicated Dresden Files series (Dead Beat, etc.). Harry finds that fighting monsters is only the prelude to maneuvers amid the warring wizards of the White Council and the vampire Red Court. Less and less V.I. Warshawski with witchcraft, Harry aims his deductive powers at political intrigues rather than crime solving. The body count from the magical melees, however, would do any hard-boiled gumshoe proud. Butcher's believable, likable set of characters go for the jocular much more than the jugular. Deeper fears do run through the book, and Harry, taking on an apprentice, has to face up to the consequences of his all-too-human failings. Look for the series to really take off with the debut of a two-hour pilot on the Sci-Fi Channel this summer produced by Nicholas Cage.
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Long story that satisfactorily and an adventure
While setting up the continuing saga. I think it's because the story is so full. Yet story is easy to read. Good escape reading.
Excellent read
Outside of an unforced sexual tension this book was terrific. The start had the death of a young man accused of black magic and that would show its face again later in the book with someone Harry cares about. We also get some more detail about why Michael’s wife Charity does not like Harry. Michael doesn’t have a big appearance in this book but continues to be my favorite character in this series. Harry also causes more tension among his peers (and higher ups) and the ending of the book I’m sure will lead into the next and I’m excited for Harry’s next journey.
Absolutely amazing
Best book series I have read Ever. I have read lots of series.