Book Log 39/2010 - Jim Butcher: Fool Moon
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jaceyJim Butcher Fool Moon – Harry Dresden #2
Roc 2001
What's not to like about Harry Dresden? Think of all those hard-boiled PI novels and now imagine that one of those PIs is the only publicly practising wizard in Chicago whose bread and butter work is being the go-to guy for the local police department's special investigations unit. It's a good set-up premise and as this, my second Dresden novel, keeps up the pace of the first one, I think I'm going to enjoy working my way through the whole series.
This time it's werewolves... or is it? When a thug is found at full moon, ripped apart, Murphy, Harry's police employer, calls him in. The conclusion seems obvious, but Murphy's investigation is somewhat hampered by an elite FBI squad. Undaunted she instructs Harry to dig up all the information he can on werewolves. It turns out that's a lot. There are three different kinds, some of them mad, bad and dangerous to know, others magically induced who retain some semblance of their own humanity.... Er, right, that makes them madder, badder and even more dangerous under certain conditions. And then there are shapechangers...
Harry goes through the mill, falls out and back in with Murphy, make a few mistakes, takesa few a lot of knocks and finally solves the case – as we all knew he would. It's just the route he takes to get there that's the meat of this story. Highly recommended.
Roc 2001
What's not to like about Harry Dresden? Think of all those hard-boiled PI novels and now imagine that one of those PIs is the only publicly practising wizard in Chicago whose bread and butter work is being the go-to guy for the local police department's special investigations unit. It's a good set-up premise and as this, my second Dresden novel, keeps up the pace of the first one, I think I'm going to enjoy working my way through the whole series.
This time it's werewolves... or is it? When a thug is found at full moon, ripped apart, Murphy, Harry's police employer, calls him in. The conclusion seems obvious, but Murphy's investigation is somewhat hampered by an elite FBI squad. Undaunted she instructs Harry to dig up all the information he can on werewolves. It turns out that's a lot. There are three different kinds, some of them mad, bad and dangerous to know, others magically induced who retain some semblance of their own humanity.... Er, right, that makes them madder, badder and even more dangerous under certain conditions. And then there are shapechangers...
Harry goes through the mill, falls out and back in with Murphy, make a few mistakes, takes
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Date: Nov. 7th, 2010 11:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Nov. 8th, 2010 12:37 am (UTC)This year I've deliberately picked up books by new authors in the hope of finding new favourites. Unfortunately some of the ones I thought would work for me just haven't.
I'd now like to check out Jim Butcher's other books, too.