Saturday 2 May 2009

URBAN FANTASY: Small Favour - Jim Butcher


BOOK BLURB:

No one's tried to kill Harry Dresden for almost an entire year, and his life finally seems to be calming down. For once, the future looks fairly bright. But the past casts one hell of a long shadow.

An old bargain has placed Harry in debt to Mab, monarch of the Winter Court of the Sidhe, the Queen of Air and Darkness-and she's calling in her marker. It's a small favor he can't refuse...one that will trap Harry Dresden between a nightmarish foe and an equally deadly ally, and one that will strain his skills-and loyalties-to their very limits.

It figures. Everything was going too well to last...


REVIEW:

If you want a story that pretty much rewrote the Urban Fantasy genre then you will more than likely have been recommended a book by Jim Butcher. This is because no one truly does it better than Butcher who’s intrepid investigative Wizard PI, Harry Dresden gives you a story that will not only impress but will allow the reader to have a pure guilty pleasure series to enjoy. Each time a new novel comes out I reread the series to such a degree that of some of the earlier novels I’m already on to my second copy which has been a real pleasure to enjoy. No one really does this genre better and to be blunt it’s a series I use time and again to introduce new readers to the genre, after all if they don’t like Harry, they won’t like a lot of the other stuff out there. That said never start a Butcher series part way into it, you have to start at the beginning and when you do that, you really won’t need me to tell you how good this series is.

1 comment:

ediFanoB said...

So far I read the first two books of the Harry Dresden series and I have no regrets about it. Therefore I fully agree with your review.