![]() ![]() And, as always seems to happen in every volume, he gets the snot kicked out of him in new and creative ways. Although much is bleak and tense, Harry's trademark dark humor is never far from the surface. What he risks, what drives him to do it, and the jaw-dropping outcome are all "turned up to 11" in this volume. It's remarkable that after all Harry has been through in the series so far, Jim Butcher manages to to reach a new high in terms of the stakes for Harry in this book. The same can be emphatically said for Changes. Amidst the amazing action scenes, political intrigue, and even romance, he never loses sight of the need to drive the story and his characters forward. I eventually caved in and read that series, and I was impressed by the way Butcher had a very clear idea of the arc of the story right from the start. Not intrigued at the possibility of getting to read a new milieu created by a wonderful author, but genuinely mad that he would divert his amazing creative energies and time away from the Harry Dresden books. ![]() I must say I was actually angry when I saw that Jim Butcher was taking time out to write the Codex Alera (Codex Alera, Book 1) series. ![]() I'm going to start this review a little unconventionally but bear with me. ![]()
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