Cold Days
Didiao says:
Let me preface this review with the fact that I really like the Dresden Files. Harry Dresden is a great character. I like the world he lives in, and the plots are interesting.But...The pacing of these stories drives me crazy. Around book 3 I first noticed it, after book 14, it's maddening. Every single one of these books follows this formula:Harry gets a case or starts to solve some problem. He goes somewhere to talk to someone about it. He gets ambushed. He barely fights off the att...acker, goes somewhere to lick his wounds. Harry then decides to go interview someone else, he gets ambushed again, he barely fights off the attacker, then he goes somewhere to lick his wounds. Harry then decides to go interview someone else, he gets ambushed again, he barely fights off the attacker, then he goes somewhere to lick his wounds. Harry then decides to go interview someone else, he gets ambushed again, he barely fights off the attacker, then he goes somewhere to lick his wounds. Harry then decides to go interview someone else, he gets ambushed again, he barely fights off the attacker, then he goes somewhere to lick his wounds. Harry then decides to go interview someone else, he gets ambushed again, he barely fights off the attacker, then he goes somewhere to lick his wounds. Harry then decides to go interview someone else, he gets ambushed again, he barely fights off the attacker, then he goes somewhere to lick his wounds. Harry then decides to go interview someone else, he gets ambushed again, he barely fights off the attacker, then he goes somewhere to lick his wounds. Then add the final act which is usually pretty exciting.Jim Butcher is a good author (I especially think this after reading his Codex Alera series) I just wish he would change up his writing style a bit.
deziera says:
A guilty pleasure veering towards a self-torturing pleasure or just masochism. Molly in her train-bra, with Harry giving full vent to violent sexual thoughts (don't care if they are 'magically induced' that is a plot manipulation to allow characters to go nasty places). The whole swampy morass of fucked up male sexuality. It's a train wreck that is hard to look away from. Butcher is good at his plotting as usual. Lots of action. Not enough fun, sort of heading towards end of Buffy self-seriousness and buzz kill. I wrote a whole ranting review but deleted it. These books mess with my head but I keep coming back for more. A 'special hell' Butcher, a special hell.MoreLess
Let me preface this review with the fact that I really like the Dresden Files. Harry Dresden is a great character. I like the world he lives in, and the plots are interesting.But...The pacing of these stories drives me crazy. Around book 3 I first noticed it, after book 14, it's maddening. Every single one of these books follows this formula:Harry gets a case or starts to solve some problem. He goes somewhere to talk to someone about it. He gets ambushed. He barely fights off the att...acker, goes somewhere to lick his wounds. Harry then decides to go interview someone else, he gets ambushed again, he barely fights off the attacker, then he goes somewhere to lick his wounds. Harry then decides to go interview someone else, he gets ambushed again, he barely fights off the attacker, then he goes somewhere to lick his wounds. Harry then decides to go interview someone else, he gets ambushed again, he barely fights off the attacker, then he goes somewhere to lick his wounds. Harry then decides to go interview someone else, he gets ambushed again, he barely fights off the attacker, then he goes somewhere to lick his wounds. Harry then decides to go interview someone else, he gets ambushed again, he barely fights off the attacker, then he goes somewhere to lick his wounds. Harry then decides to go interview someone else, he gets ambushed again, he barely fights off the attacker, then he goes somewhere to lick his wounds. Harry then decides to go interview someone else, he gets ambushed again, he barely fights off the attacker, then he goes somewhere to lick his wounds. Then add the final act which is usually pretty exciting.Jim Butcher is a good author (I especially think this after reading his Codex Alera series) I just wish he would change up his writing style a bit.
deziera says:
A guilty pleasure veering towards a self-torturing pleasure or just masochism. Molly in her train-bra, with Harry giving full vent to violent sexual thoughts (don't care if they are 'magically induced' that is a plot manipulation to allow characters to go nasty places). The whole swampy morass of fucked up male sexuality. It's a train wreck that is hard to look away from. Butcher is good at his plotting as usual. Lots of action. Not enough fun, sort of heading towards end of Buffy self-seriousness and buzz kill. I wrote a whole ranting review but deleted it. These books mess with my head but I keep coming back for more. A 'special hell' Butcher, a special hell.MoreLess
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