“Faeries, why did it have to be faeries?”–Harry Dresden, Small Favor
Chicago wizard and private investigator, Harry Dresden, still owes two favors to Queen Mab and she’s back to collect in this 10th installment in Jim Butcher’s Dresden series. On the surface Harry’s mission seems straight forward enough–find out who kidnapped crime boss Gentleman Johnny Marcone and get him back–but nothing is ever as it seems with the Sidhe. It’s up to Harry to dodge increasingly powerful hit squads of gruffs (as in Billy Goats Gruff), the minions of the Winter Court, the demonic Knights of the Blackened Denarius, and some major bad winter weather to save his city and the world once again.
If you’re a Dresden fan as I am, this book will leave you yelling “write faster, Jim, and give us more Dresden adventures!” Incidentally, author Jim Butcher is as witty in person as he is on the page as you can see from the below video. This is part of 2007 talk he gave at a bookstore in Seattle.
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