Carl Klutzke ([info]sirvalence) wrote,
@ 2008-09-17 12:47:00
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White Night, by Jim Butcher
I just finished White Night, the 9th book in the Dresden Files series. They just keep getting better. Amazing.

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[info]erichris
2008-09-17 05:10 pm UTC (link)
I like the books too, though I am only on book 3.

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[info]mazlynn
2008-09-17 05:41 pm UTC (link)
I love that series. The world setting just gets richer with every book, the characters actually grow, threads from earlier books are woven into later ones - it's a great world setting. And unlike many books of the "the main character makes new enemies every book" type, Dresden doesn't tend to paint his characters into an unresolvable corner - some of the old ones actually get resolved or changed enough to allow continuing progression of the story. I really do enjoy that series quite a bit.

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[info]kriz1818
2008-09-17 06:20 pm UTC (link)
So many people I know like those, that I purchased and read one - and didn't like it all.

*Shrugs* I plan to ship it to Afghanistan, as soon as I get around to buying some cookies & stuff.

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[info]sirvalence
2008-09-18 12:36 am UTC (link)
Like I said, they keep getting better. The first book was fun, but it was pretty cheesy. I've heard it was the author's attempt to deliberately use the gimmicks of popular writing to make something saleable. It's come a long way from there. But obviously, not everything works for everybody.

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[info]mazlynn
2008-09-18 01:20 am UTC (link)
Yup. It was also his way of diversifying - his real love is the full on sword and sorcery stuff, but that wasn't selling so he started writing in random genre cliches as a bit of a writing exercises, and Dresden sold. And the success of that let him write the series it seems he really wanted to do in the first place, the Alexa Codex. Which is different enough from Dresden that I have a hard time believing they're the same author at times, but which also rocks very hard.

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