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Changes (Dresden Files, Book 12)

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  • EAN: 9780451463173
  • Manufacturer: Roc Hardcover

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  • ISBN13: 9780451463173
  • Condition: New
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  • The new novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Dresden Files series.

    Long ago, Susan Rodriguez was Harry Dresden's lover-until she was attacked by his enemies, leaving her torn between her own humanity and the bloodlust of the vampiric Red Court. Susan then disappeared to South America, where she could fight both her savage gift and those who cursed her with it.

    Now Arianna Ortega, Duchess of the Red Court, has discovered a secret Susan has long kept, and she plans to use it-against Harry. To prevail this time, he may have no choice but to embrace the raging fury of his own untapped dark power. Because Harry's not fighting to save the world...

    He's fighting to save his child.

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  • Summary: good
  • Comment: This is one of the best Butcher novels so far. Reading them was a bit like indulging in junk food. Many books in the series follow a repetitive if fast-paced framework in which 2-3 story lines, many cliches later, reach a climactic release. There are lots of fireballs, the bad guy is repealed and justice restored. In Changes, JB raised the stakes and opted for a simpler, cleaner and psychologically more complex narrative. Gripping from the beginning to the end.

    Butcher has clear ideas about reality, the mind and the 'supernatural'. No mere fantasy, his views seem coherent and based on deep personal investigation, study, reflection and commitment. I like that. His wizard, an alter ego of sorts, is not perfect yet Butcher makes the very imperfection into an embodiment of humanness, humor and style. And the characters, well, one gets to love'em from the cat, the dog and the skull to the heroes and antiheroes. Looking forward to the next installment.
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  • Summary: Harry is going to the next level of power and danger.
  • Comment: The title Changes is accurate. Everything in Harry's life changes in this book. Harry must save his daughter that he didn't know he had. He must confront enemies much more powerful than before. He must call in allies and make deals that he normally would not make. A great book. Please read the previous books in the series to fully understand and enjoy this book. Harry is more powerful and wiser than ever. Will it be enough?
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  • Summary: Simply outstanding
  • Comment: In my opinion this is one of the best books of 2010 - simply outstanding.

    Tight plotting, wonderful use of characters and development thereof. Mouse particularly is terriffic!

    I was stunned and startled by the ending and gnashed my teeth at the long wait ahead for the next book by Butcher - March is WAY too far away at this point.

    Absolutely wonderful - Butcher's best so far!
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  • Summary: Second sight
  • Comment: Jim Butcher opened up his second sight and we got to see all of the characters true selves. It was part "Dirty Dozen" and part "the Magnificent Seven" everyone going balls out, use it if you got it, there will be no tomorrow so leave it all on the field...you get where I am going with this.
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  • Summary: Changes: The Best Dresden Files Novel Yet
  • Comment: Jim Butcher is, to me, the Robert B. Parker of Urban Fantasy. He has, in his excellent series The Dresden Files, created an almost mythical universe of wizards, warlocks, fairies, vampires, werewolves, witches, and the like, and placed it smack dab in the middle of one of the largest and loudest cities in the world, Chicago IL. Though trying to attempt something like that, mixing fantasy in a modern day setting, sounds impossible, Butcher has done it on a magnificient, almost a majestic level, and in the process has created one of the most interesting, most complex, and certainly one of the most entertaining characters I have seen in fiction in a long time, Harry Dresden.

    Think of legendary fictional detectives Lew Archer, Matthew Scudder, Philip Marlowe, and Sam Spade blended together, and then give that blend magical powers, arm him with a staff, a blasting rod, and dress him in a cool leather duster and you have a good idea of the complexity of the character that is Harry Dresden. But what makes this character unique in the realm of urban fantasy is that he is also very real as he is mythic. Harry may be a wizard capable of casting lances of hellfire at monsterous enemies, but he is also still very human, burdened with the problems of life just as the rest of us. He may be battling werewolves one minute, then worrying how he will come up with the month's rent on his cheap apartment the next. And because he is this way, the reader can readily identify with him, and that is what makes Harry so likable. He is a wizard who can make wisecracks and crack inhuman skulls at the same time

    In the 12th novel in the series, Harry is faced with probably the biggest challenge in his entire life. He must rescue a daughter that he never even knew existed, one who has been taken captive by his mortal enemies, the vampires of the evil Red Court. Enlisting the aid of his friends and even some of his enemies, Harry embarks on a breath-taking action-packed adventure that literally takes him from one end of the country to the other, and eventually to an absolutely shocking and hair-raising climax among the Mayan ruins in Mexico.

    During the course of his various escapades in the story, Harry rekindles a romance with a former lover, one who brings him to to the place where he will make one of the most tragic decisions in his life. He also makes choices that will likely have a major impact on him for the next few novels to come, and learns things of his past that will have far reaching implications for him in the future. The book concludes with the first cliffhanger ending I have seen Butcher employ, one that will have readers breathlessly wondering up until the next Dresden Files novel coming up March of 2011 what happens next.

    Changes is definitely the best Dresden Files novel to date, and one of the most complex as well. I would highly recommend listening to the most excellent audio adaptation of the novel, entertainingly presented by actor James Marsters, to really get a feel for all the action and excitement happening in this story. But for those of us who are wild about the Wizarding World's other Harry, this book is the most entertaining read of the summer.

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