Rating: ⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️ First Response: i’m not ok. One Sentence Summary: Harry and ALL his friends, enemies, and everyone else gather to take down an apocalyptic titan. Tell Me More: This book was worse than Changes when it came to emotional trauma. Harry lost so much, and honestly, it kinda broke me. I thought losing Susan was bad; but it had nothing on this book. Susan was off screen for most of the series, and while her loss was particularly devastating for Harry, I didn’t re

Rating : 🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️ First Response: I need to go read Battle Ground NOW. One Sentence Summary: Thomas Raith is accused of murder mere days before a massive peace conference of supernatural powers is set to take place in’s Chicago. Tell Me More: This one only gets 4 stars, and I feel conflicted about it. One the one hand, I know this book is actually only the first part of the book that was supposed to include the content of both Peace Talks and Battle Ground , and it doesn’

Rating: 💼💼💼💼💼 First Response: This one was better than Side Jobs overall, but no one story stood out the way The Warrior did. One Sentence Summary: This is a collection of short stories set in the universe of the Dresden Files, focusing on side characters. Tell Me More: This collection is a series of parts that together are greater than their sum would imply. (Wow, that's a really convoluted way of saying what I wanted to say, but I guess it works...) The stories in thi

Rating: 🍵🍵🍵🍵.75 First Response: MICHAEL CAME BACK AND I GOT FULL-BODY CHILLS! One Sentence Summary: Harry gets roped into helping his worst enemy heist Hades' vault for the holy grail. Tell Me More: This book felt like Butcher bringing Dresden back to his pulp roots, but instead of noir, we're in heist novel territory. There were parts of this book that felt like they were ripped straight out of a James Bond or Mission: Impossible film, and there were parts that felt lik

Rating: ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️ First Response: Ok, THIS one is my favorite of the series. I mean it this time! One Sentence Summary: Harry's back from the dead, and takes up his position as the winter knight; but when Mab tasks him to kill Maeve, her immortal daughter, he learns that there's a lot more to the job than even he imagined. Tell Me More: Yo, this book is WILD. Changes pushed Dresden emotionally. Ghost Story pushed him intellectually. This book pushes him (quite literally) all

Rating: 👻👻👻👻.75 First Response: This one might be my favorite so far! One Sentence Summary: When we last left Harry Dresden at the end of Changes , he was dead… until he gets sent back to solve his own murder! Tell Me More: This book has put me in a tough position. On the one hand, it might be the best book of the series so far. We get to see Harry dealing with new challenges in a new world— the world beyond . As a ghost, Harry is limited in his ability to affect the mate

Rating: 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹 First Response: I almost cried at the end of The Warrior . One Sentence Summary: This is a short story collection with an assortment of Harry's adventures at various points between the books of the series. Tell Me More: This book was a fun little break after the emotional trauma of Changes . I got to see Harry in his nascency, as well as some behind-the-scenes action from both Thomas and Murphy's point of view. I'm choosing to give it 5 stars primarily for

Rating: 😭😭😭😭😭 First Response: I... I need a minute. One Sentence Summary: I can't even. I just... I can't. Tell Me More: This book broke my heart and short circuited my brain. It was a wonderful ride, and is probably the best book in the series so far. It almost defies description. But I'm gonna try. Last chance to hop off before <spoilers> . Harry has a daughter. Susan Rodriguez is the mother (you remember Susan, right? The reporter for the Arcane ? Got bit by a vampire

Rating: 🧥🧥🧥🧥🧥 First Response: I need them to figure out this Black Council thing, like, YESTERDAY. One Sentence Summary: Warden Morgan (yes, that Morgan) has been framed for the murder of a member of the High Council, and needs Harry to prove he didn't do it. Tell Me More: This book was fun, but something about it felt like filler. Like I was watching a couple of chess grandmasters play through the opening moves of a game by rote, before the first few captures that send

Rating: ✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️ First Response: THANK GOD MICHAEL'S ALRIGHT! WHY DIDN'T ANYONE WARN ME?!?!?!?! One Sentence Summary: Someone has kidnapped Johnny Marcone and Queen Mab is calling in one of her 3 favors to get Dresden to find him. Tell Me More: The wicked web keeps getting webbier. But first, some background. I was clipping along through The Dresden Files at a pretty good pace, and my library seemed to have all the audiobooks somewhere between Libby and Hoopla together-- a

Rating: 🧙🏻‍♀️🧙🏻‍♀️🧙🏻‍♀️🧙🏻‍♀️🧙🏻‍♀️ First Response: Thomás is FABULOUS 💅🏻 One Sentence Summary: Women are dying of apparent suicides, but there's a pattern to the deaths, which leads Harry Dresden to hunt down a serial killer. Tell Me More: I noted that the tone of The Dresden Files had shifted in my review of Proven Guilty ; and in this book, that fruits of that shift are coming to bear. White Night is only nominally a detective novel in the vein of Storm Front , G

Thank God we’re escaped the uncanny valley. Rating: 🍿🍿🍿🍿.75 First Response: The tone of this one was different. I’m not sure I liked it. One Sentence Summary: Harry’s given the heads-up that black magic is coming to Chicago— and when monsters start popping up at the local horror movie convention, he jumps on the case. Tell Me More: There’s been a shift in the Dresden-verse. Usually The Dresden Files are fun, even silly mystery/ adventure novels. Harry Dresden is a wisecra

I still refuse to accept this CGI uncanny valley abomination as my Harry. Rating: 💀💀💀💀💀 Initial Response: POLKA WILL NEVER DIE! One Sentence Summary: Harry is blackmailed into locating the grimoire of a particularly notorious necromancer-- unfortunately, the necromancers disciples are also looking for it. Tell Me More: This is the best one yet! Every book in the Dresden Files has gotten 5 emojis-of-choice, but I wish I could give this one even more. The stakes go up! Th

What even IS this cover? If that's a real person, I'm sorry, but that's some uncanny valley shit right there. That's not my Harry. I refuse. Rating: 🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸 First Response: This book has no spice. I'm shocked, considering it's about porn. One Sentence Summary: Someone is trying to magically sabotage an... <ahem> ... adult film, and the producers what Harry to figure out who. Tell Me More: I'm pretty sure this is the one with Vampires, but it's kinda hard to tell. Consideri

I could not find this cover anywhere for the life of me, so I just screenshotted it from the audiobook I was using. It looks nothing like any of the covers that show up if you Google this book. Rating: 👘👘👘👘👘 (This is the closest emoji I could find to a shroud. Bite me.) First Response: MICHAEL IS BACK AND HE’S A BADASS! Also his kids are adorable and Charity is terrifying😱. One Sentence Summary: Harry Dresden has a lot on his hands— a duel with a vampire, the mutilation

I think we need to have a conversation about cover art, because these covers are fire, but a little sexist. The new ones all look the same though, cause they're just Harry. Rating: 🧚🏻🧚🏻🧚🏻🧚🏻🧚🏻 First Response: I need Michael and Morgan to duel. One Sentence Summary: Under heat for kicking off a war between the White Council of Wizards and the Red Court of Vampires, Harry is “asked” to investigate a supposedly accidental death that might have major ramifications for th

They just keep getting better. Rating: 👻👻👻👻👻 First Response: Who you gonna call? HARRY DRESDEN! One Sentence Summary: Chicago's paranormal denizens have been particularly troublesome of late; and Harry Dresden is determined to find out why. Tell Me More: I need to start this review by talking about Stranger Things . When season 1 of Stranger Things came out, I thought it was fantastic. I loved every second of it; and even thought that the ending, with it's unresolved pl

Ratings: Storm Front:🌩️🌩️🌩️🌩️🌩️ Fool Moon: 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 Initial Reaction: I HAVE FOUND MY NEW OBSESSION! One Sentence Summary: Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden is a hardboiled detective -- I mean, wizard-- who investigates crimes that are just a little too... unusual for the normal police force. Tell Me More: When I was but a wee lad, I discovered a book called The Falcon's Malteser by Anthony Horowitz (of Alex Rider fame). It was the first of the Diamond Brothers'