Battle Ground
By Jim Butcher
Dresden Files #17
I've been reading the Dresden Files for almost 20 years. Mostly as the book came out. About once per year.
I got tired of them for a while and stopped reading them a few years back. but with another new book and the quarantine I thought I would catch up.
Battle Ground is the latest in the series.
Strange, but I just checked and for some reason I never posted about Dresden before. I guess most of my time here has been when I was tired of him. And the last couple of books I read were just working up to this book. But I see a number of other VFers are fans of the series. The posts about Dresden are all before my time here.
I didn't like the last 4 or so books in the series that much. I realize that character need to change/evolve or we would get bored with them. but I don't like the direction the author choose.
BTW, in case you didn't know, Harry Dresden is a "working wizard" in Chicago. He has a PI license and the first dozen books definitely have a hard boiled detective/noire mystery thing going. The police don't like him meddling with active investigations, and the council of wizards don't like him working in plain sight. He has few friends and many enemies. His wizard powers are a work in progress.
The first half dozen books are pretty much small scale magic stuff. but by the end we get into major magical acts, super-powerful enemies, and epic battles.
Throughout Dresden is a likable character full of pop culture references and witty banter. Also although the books stop being the detective solving a mystery, there always is some twists, turns and surprises along the way.
Oh, and there was a short lived TV series. I only watched one or two episodes. they miscast everyone, left a lot out and changed too much. I hate when the do that.
