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#714609 Wed 25/06/14 18:45 UTC
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So, anyone reading Skin Game, the new Harry Dresden Novel? I'm a notoriously slow reader as I usually take my time with a book, but I've zipped through more than half of this in a couple of days. Good book so far!

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I didn't enjoy it as much as the previous one, but it's still quite good. And manages a few interesting surprises before it's done.

Though I'm not sure a Leverage-style "reveal an important thing you didn't know" flashback works quite as well in a first person narrative like this. (You'll know it when you get to it.)

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I enjoyed it. I'm not sure where I'd put it in my ranking of Dresden books.

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Well, so far I like it better than Cold Days. Cold Days was a lot like Empire Strikes Back to me. Yeah, it did set a lot of things up and explain a lot of others, but it was kind of depressing and I've got to admit, I'm a happy ending guy. Yeah, it's a weakness.

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I liked the book a lot. It felt more like the earlier books in the series that I really loved. The last two, Cold Days and Ghost Story I did not care for that much.

And I liked getting back to Michael and Charity and seeing a peek into what was going on with the Carpenter clan.



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Oh good, I need to read this one next then. I prefer the earlier books as well Mina.

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Warning Spoiler in last paragragh...

I just finished reading Skin Game and I also, liked it a lot better than the last few. Less pontificating on the nature of good and evil, right and wrong, life and death and a lot more of Harry and the gang, which IMHO, is what these books should be about. The only ones I missed were Thomas and Toot, though both were mentioned.

I know that Butcher is probably aching to write 'something important' but the Dresden Files should be fun not literature! Again my opinion.

Personally I was beginning to think that he should just have ended the series with Changes but I'm certain, even if he wanted to, Butcher's publishers would refuse to let him off the hook at 12. Unlike my friend, who turned me on to the books in the first place and who bailed after the 'betrayal' of Side Jobs, I've stuck with the series and now there appears to be a glimmer of hope on the horizon.








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I am firmly in Barry's camp as regards happy endings and I have to admit to getting a little verklempt when Butters pops the lightsaber, if I wanted a steady diet of doom and gloom I'd have stuck with Donaldson after The Wounded Land, but I couldn't and didn't.


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