i love the dresden files

>>24454747 (OP)
Just got done with Battle Ground after reading the series over the last 2 years. I didn't hate BG like i've seen others. It was like a Dresden files movie.

I'm just fucking tired of the winter knight bullshit. White council also sucks dick.

First two books are genuinely awful then it becomes kino. Why don’t authors just write well the whole time?

I like the bit where he sexually bdsm rapes his half turned latina ex girlfriend

Sounds similar to the Laundry Files series by Charles Stross. It combines Lovecraftian horror, computers/mathematics, and bureaucracy.

the first three books in the series are awful imo

Read the Sandman Slim series by Richard Kadrey.

>>24455080
>>24456743
Agreed. All three books have their moments but they aren't good. I remember enjoying the first book, hating the second, and stopping for a while to read something completely different during the third. Also book 4 whilst much better, left me hoping for no more fae, winter/summer stuff. Little did i know.

Dead Beat is where the series goes full throttle.

>>24455085
Pretty hot NGL

>>24457052
I might be a little too hard on Ghost Story, it was a good idea and there are some scenes i really liked, but overall the whole thing didn't work for me.

>>24454747 (OP)
I have a seething annoyance with Harry since he turned down Marcone. Marcone offered him an incredible deal that would have solved almost all of his problems. Harry even admits that Marcone is a good guy in his soul vision thing, and he still turned him down for some bullshit ethical reasons. Harry is like what a 16 year old thinks is cool. Turning down Marcone wasn't cool or heroic, it was suicidally stupid.

>>24457199
I don't know about that, Marcone isn't a good guy, just extremely practical. And whilst he does often help Dresden, things like the reveal at the end of Battleground prove that he will do anything practical to continue his expansion of power.

But yeh Dresden being like "Hey we are working together now but one day i'll take you down" everytime they work together is pretty stupid.

I also like the bit where molly takes her just legal bra off

>>24457436
Dresden should've just plowed her silly. Would've solved alot of problems. And Daddy Carpenter seemed cool with it.

>>24457317
Marcone is more like an anti-hero than anything. He's the "good mafia" trope. His offer in the first book was basically, "I will give you literally anything you want, you just have to give me advice, sometimes." Harry pisses me off. I read 10 books, and he still pisses me off.

What ARE the Dresden Files? Is this just fantasy sleuthing or what? Blank meets blank meets blank = Dresden Files.

Well lads?

>>24458186
He's a Wizard Detective/Investigator at the start and it grows into a kind of epic urban fantasy, lot's of factions, lot's of consequences for the things Harry does. Harry keeps doing what's right and he keeps getting deeper in trouble.

Like if the Buffyverse had better more serious worldbuilding. Philip Marlowe meets Buffy maybe.

>>24458302
>Philip Marlowe meets Buffy
>>24458186
This is the best explanation for Dresden Files' first couple of books
Seventeen novels later it's entered the final arc so we're now in apocalyptic supernatural war territory

>>24455068
Battle Ground was annoyingly just a massive FREAKING fight scene
Skin Game is terribly underrated

>>24454747 (OP)
Bartimaeus Sequence

>>24459349
Skin Game was great, I wasn't sure about it until the heist itself kicked off, came together quite nicely. Micheal being a bro as per usual.

>>24459538
other than trying to shoehorn Karrin in, it's one of the best heists I've ever read, in and of itself

i read a couple years ago, voice is overly masculine

>>24454747 (OP)
>urban fantasy
Fate/Stay Night (vn). I had never watched the anime and knew nothing about it. Reading the vn was amazing.

>>24460218
He chills out after a few books. Not every woman is described like a pornstar bio.

>>24460218
and that was good

>>24460604
and that was bad

>>24457052
Grave Peril really is the gift that keeps on giving in this series despite its flaws.

>>24460803
Grave Peril is what got me hooked, I was fully primed to dump the series until then
no way it should be this low on the list

>>24460816
Harry will end up as the new Merlin and Butcher will tie it back to that party somehow lol

Sex with my imaginary girlfriend Lasciel

I like how horny he is

>>24460803
>>24460816
It is a mess though. It introduces Michael and family, but really just stumbled it's way from scene to scene before getting to the red court party which was obviously the whole idea for the book.

Lots of important plot threads start here but the book itself isn't good.

>>24461497
perhaps
but like I said, one way or another, it was THE book which hooked me
Storm Front and the second book were so obviously amateurish that I was ready to pack it in as I picked up Grave Peril, I told myself it was the last book I was going to read in the series

so what can I say? it is what it is

>>24461882
Book 4 sold it for me and Book 7 cemented it.

what got me hooked was when summer knight
especially the scene where he and the werewolf manlet goes down to the tunnels and finds a booming 20s dance floor and all the enslaved jazz sax player dying
that was fun