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A whole lot of fighting happens

Battle Ground by Jim Butcher

December 21, 2020 by Malin 1 Comment

Spoiler warning! This is book 17 in a long, ongoing series. This really isn’t the place to start. In fact, this book doesn’t even work on its own, so don’t even think to read this review if you’re not caught up. Normally, I’d recommend that you start with book 1, but the first three books of The Dresden Files are pretty bad, so you’d be better off starting with book 4, Summer Knight. I highly recommend the audio books, narrated by James Marsters. They’re what finally sold […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: battle ground, cbr12, demons, faeries, Jim Butcher, magic, Malin, paranormal fantasy, Peace Talks/Battle Ground, shapeshifters, the Dresden Files, war, wizards

Malin's CBR12 Review No:83 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery · Tags: battle ground, cbr12, demons, faeries, Jim Butcher, magic, Malin, paranormal fantasy, Peace Talks/Battle Ground, shapeshifters, the Dresden Files, war, wizards ·
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Battle Ground (The Dresden Files, #17) by Jim Butcher

November 11, 2020 by narfna 4 Comments

I am going to do the opposite of what I did for Peace Talks for this book, which is I’m not going to write hardly anything, and only one thing will be under spoiler tags. If you have read the book, you know what that thing is. So, bullet points! I do not think either of these books was really served well by being split in two. I think they should have been one big book, and maybe cut like 100 pages from both. Maybe […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, battle ground, James Marsters, Jim Butcher, narfna, Peace Talks/Battle Ground, the Dresden Files, Urban Fantasy

narfna's CBR12 Review No:171 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, battle ground, James Marsters, Jim Butcher, narfna, Peace Talks/Battle Ground, the Dresden Files, Urban Fantasy ·
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Harry’s back, and this is only the first of the books we get this year

Peace Talks by Jim Butcher

September 28, 2020 by Malin Leave a Comment

No rating until I’ve read the second part of the story. Spoiler warning! This is book 16 in a long, ongoing series. This really isn’t the place to start. Normally, I’d recommend that you start with book 1, but the first three books of The Dresden Files are pretty bad, so you’d be better off starting with book 4, Summer Knight. I highly recommend the audio books, narrated by James Marsters. They’re what finally sold me on the series. Official book description: When the Supernatural nations of the world meet […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: cbr12, faeries, Jim Butcher, magic, Malin, mystery, paranormal fantasy, peace talks, Peace Talks/Battle Ground, shapeshifters, Suspense, the Dresden Files, vampires, wizards

Malin's CBR12 Review No:64 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: cbr12, faeries, Jim Butcher, magic, Malin, mystery, paranormal fantasy, peace talks, Peace Talks/Battle Ground, shapeshifters, Suspense, the Dresden Files, vampires, wizards ·
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Most of this review is whited out spoilers, because I just needed to say some things.

Peace Talks (The Dresden Files, #16) by Jim Butcher

September 4, 2020 by narfna 7 Comments

No fifth star here, folks. What we’ve got here is a part one of two situation. This is basically the first book in a duology inside the series proper, with Battle Ground being part two. We now know why the surprise second book! And I can’t fully judge this one until I see how (most of) it turns out. Luckily, September 29th isn’t that far away. I had to step away from this one for a bit to try and see what Butcher was going […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy Tagged With: #fantasy, James Marsters, Jim Butcher, narfna, peace talks, Peace Talks/Battle Ground, the Dresden Files, Urban Fantasy

narfna's CBR12 Review No:123 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy · Tags: #fantasy, James Marsters, Jim Butcher, narfna, peace talks, Peace Talks/Battle Ground, the Dresden Files, Urban Fantasy ·
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A nice little Dresden Files snack.

November 29, 2018 by narfna Leave a Comment

I really like these story collections because I don’t have the patience to track them all down in their various anthologies. Extremely convenient, thumbs up. And to top it all off, I really enjoyed all the stories here. There were a couple in the last collection I was a little bored with, or that showed their age, etc. But they were all good here, entertaining and fit well into the larger Dresden Files universe. I especially liked that three of them took place after the […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: brief cases, Jim Butcher, narfna, novellas, short stories, the Dresden Files

narfna's CBR10 Review No:148 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: brief cases, Jim Butcher, narfna, novellas, short stories, the Dresden Files ·
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Still my fave. I think closely followed by Dead Beat. Anyway, Dresden Re-read complete!

September 6, 2018 by narfna 2 Comments

I should have written this review three weeks ago. This will not be long or comprehensive. I’m behind in my reviews, but so close to catching up! (Only two more after this one!) Mostly, whatever I’m about to write will boil down to, “This is still my favorite Dresden Files book and it is so fun.” Warning: free floating spoilers for events in the first fourteen books below. In this book we have: *Harry teaming up with his mortal enemies, the Denariians. *Harry confronting his […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy Tagged With: fantasy, James Marsters, Jim Butcher, narfna, re-read, skin game, the Dresden Files, Urban Fantasy

narfna's CBR10 Review No:108 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy · Tags: fantasy, James Marsters, Jim Butcher, narfna, re-read, skin game, the Dresden Files, Urban Fantasy ·
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