Blood Rites (The Dresden Files, Book 6)

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Blood Rites is the sixth installment of The Dresden Files. Blood Rites not only introduces more about the White Court and vampires but also about H... (show more)

Blood Rites is the sixth installment of The Dresden Files. Blood Rites not only introduces more about the White Court and vampires but also about Harry himself. Of course, this time Harry's adventures bring him onto a porn set. (You've read that correctly.) Butcher's Blood Rites makes for a fun, suspenseful read that will make you want to keep turning each page.

This book also introduces one of my favorite characters in The Dresden Files, Mouse. Mouse is Harry's new dog, but he is not any ordinary dog to say the least. He brings a lot of humor into a series that could use it from time to time. He also is a valuable ally to Harry.

I won't spoil the plot, but you certainly won't regret picking up Blood Rites. While it's not my favorite book in the series, it's still a solid read and Butcher hasn't let up in the quality department for his books. (show less)

 

 

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It was the hardest Dresden book to get through. It just didn't capture my attention very well. I'm not likely to read it again. The plot was lac... (show more)

It was the hardest Dresden book to get through. It just didn't capture my attention very well. I'm not likely to read it again. The plot was lacking, and I had to force my self to read it so I could move on in the series. Better luck next time Jim. (show less)

 

 

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  Jim Butcher continues the saga of the long-suffering but indefatigable wizard Harry Dresden. The story centers around Harry's efforts to unmask the culprit behind a series of supernatural murders at a porn shoot. Up to this point Butcher has gradually, but effectively, crafted a rich world inhabited by his oft-beset hero complete with its own rules and history, only some of which Harry has been privy to previously. This book, however, is the one in which, to apply the cliche, "everything... (show more)

  Jim Butcher continues the saga of the long-suffering but indefatigable wizard Harry Dresden. The story centers around Harry's efforts to unmask the culprit behind a series of supernatural murders at a porn shoot. Up to this point Butcher has gradually, but effectively, crafted a rich world inhabited by his oft-beset hero complete with its own rules and history, only some of which Harry has been privy to previously. This book, however, is the one in which, to apply the cliche, "everything changes." Harry Dresden - and, by proxy, the reader - learns things that are, doubtlessly, going to pay off in spades at some point down the road. Butcher ups the ante with gratifying assurance. He's not the most poetic wordsmith of American letters, but in exchange for the intellectual stimulation of finely wrought prose Butcher gives us a crackerjack yarn about, and related by, a wonderfully entertaining character the reader empathizes with at their own emotional peril. Butcher's greatest strength, from the beginning of the Dresden Files, has been his ability to bring to life Harry Dresden, a fantastical being too engrossing - and too human - to ignore. (show less)

   

   

  by Tony on Aug 28, 2010 at 01:13AM

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  I've got to stop reading these for a little while. Here is the full review of basically all of these books I've read.
  Harry Dresden is a compelling character. A public wizard trying to make his way through the technological age, which largely spurns him. Jim Butcher does a wonderful job of high level, long range story telling in the development of this character and his relationships to the other characters in the story.
  He does a good job on the book level of creating several lines of ten... (show more)

  I've got to stop reading these for a little while. Here is the full review of basically all of these books I've read.
  Harry Dresden is a compelling character. A public wizard trying to make his way through the technological age, which largely spurns him. Jim Butcher does a wonderful job of high level, long range story telling in the development of this character and his relationships to the other characters in the story.
  He does a good job on the book level of creating several lines of tension, which pull the characters in different directions, ultimately concluding some and extending others into the longer storyline.
  Jim Butcher does a phenomenal job, particularly during times of high tension, of writing on the sentence/paragraph level.

  The problem is that ultimately and despite the twists and turns, these stories feel like cookies cut with the same cutter. Like a wonderful classical music piece played in exactly the right way, the books loose something because they have checked off all the boxes of what makes a good book. While the character of the writer comes out on both the level of the well turned phrases and the higher 20 book character development level. The structure in between seems like it was transcribed from a class on how to write a book well.

  Example: In almost every book he introduces his car (The Blue Beetle) with a nearly identical paragraph, likely because an editor said, you can't assume the reader will have read all the other books, so you have to reintroduce things.

  Worse Example: At one point in this book the main female character, a tomboy cop, puts on a dress for a family reunion. Butcher wastes an entire page of narrative blather on redescribing her character, and finally why the dress is so out of character. By the middle of the sixth book, if you haven't gotten the fact that this character is out of place in a dress, you need to read the other books. This is the equivalent of JK Rowling taking a page out of the sixth Harry Potter book to explain that Hermione is smart...

  The problem with all this, is that for all the drama and the laughter that makes the books hard to put down, there's no feeling of larger accomplishment. It's nothing more than, one bad guy down, bring on the next.

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  by Karl on Aug 11, 2010 at 04:12PM

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