• Summer Knight

  • The Dresden Files, Book 4
  • By: Jim Butcher
  • Narrated by: James Marsters
  • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (29,838 ratings)

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By: Jim Butcher
Narrated by: James Marsters
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Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden is a very powerful wizard and a dedicated private eye. He is also a wise cracking trouble magnet. Fueled by a tempest of guilt, sleep deprivation, malnutrition, bad temper and frankly awful personal grooming. Harry is hurtling toward oblivion. According to Harry that is nobody's business but his own.

The Winter Queen of Faerie manipulates him into accepting a case to solve a murder and stop a war between the courts of Summer and Winter that could have literally earth shattering consequences. His own soul is up for grabs. Dresden must dig deep to discover that at time a willingness to accept a little help from your friends, be they a cub pack of werewolves, old loves in sheep's clothing, or a battalion of pizza loving dewdrop fairies, is a very good thing.

©2002 Jim Butcher (P)2006 Buzzy Multimedia

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I'm Just Wild About Harry!

...and he's just wild about MAGIC! All of the Dresden file books have a thread of continuity, referring to previous stories and characters. But each book stands on its own, with enough flash back and referent allusions to inform the reader without overburdening the flow. In Summer Knight you learn more about the composition of the Faerie Courts and the concept of debt, meet new/old characters, and learn his new title bestowed by the pixies. James Marsters does a masterful job of creating all the voices and keeping them straight. Since language is music to my ears,and he does mispronounce a few words, I gave James 4 stars instead of 5(because I can't give a 4-3/4!). All in all, if you like magic, and an improbable-but-game hero of a wizard with dogged persistence and determination and the mind of a gumshoe, try the Dresden files.

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Enjoyable listen!

Another nice read and story. Butcher is getting better with each story and Marsten is the perfect reader for these stories.

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one of the best stories by Jim Butcher

I love the fairies world of Butcher and can't wait for the next book... fortunately, it's one click away :)

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job well done I'm hooked!

Harry takes yet another plunge into certain despair & complains every step of the way.

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This was not my favorite gym but your book

I love the Dresden files this book I think just had too many characters for me to follow my poor simple mine was overwhelmed

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Another masterpiece

Jim Butcher and James Marsters do it again! This time Harry Dresden faces off against the odds with trolls and tree monsters in his path! A beautiful and mysterious woman, a suspicious death, and a sudden reaquantance all spell trouble for Harry as he battles to gain credibility with a council of old, scraggly wizards.

Love your work Jim, and it is even better the second time through!

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I'm hooked

Just a great written story! Loved the performance from beginning to end. Jim Butcher is my kind of contemporary fantasy writer.

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Next!

I really love this series. Love every characters. I can't wait to start the next one!

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One of the Best !

Voices were like watching a movie !
Plot was very well written !
Characters came to life !
A really interesting turn of events !

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Fairy Feud

Very Intense book. Harry will get killed by the white counsel unless he gets the White Fairy queen to grant them passage through the Never-Never. But there's been a murder and he has to solve it or there'll be war between the Summer and Winter Queens of Faeridom.

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There's deaths. And some sweetness as he learns to overcome some of his pains. Accepts help from his friends.

And still the mystery of why everyone expects him to be evil.

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