Changes: The Dresden Files, Book 12

By: Jim Butcher

Narrated by: James Marsters

Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins

Publisher's summary

The new novel in the #1 New York Times best-selling 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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Excellent

another great entry in the series. butcher hasn't disappointed yet. I definitely recommend this one.

WOW! WOW! WOW! 6++

This is one of the best Harry Dresden books I have read. There is one exciting thing happening after another and we find out the most incredible things that I just did not see coming. I cried, I laughed and then I cried again. If there was any way to give this book 6 stars I would. You can't really say anything because that would give the story away and Jim Butcher has out done himself with this book. It is wonderful and you will love the story. James Marsters is an incredible reader and adds such depth to the story and the individual conversations. This is well worth a credit. Buy it you will love it too.!!!

wow

simply put WOW!
best yet. cant say more than that, this book is a roller coaster ride without the lap bar

Sh*it just got real

So the 12th Book is one of the best Dresden. the whole series so far has been awesome.This just kick it up a to 11 And new world starts in one fell swoop. Audible20

The best in the series so far!

Would you listen to Changes: The Dresden Files, Book 12 again? Why?

yes, It was the most emotionally motivated story thus far in the series.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Changes: The Dresden Files, Book 12?

Can't say without a spoiler alert.

Which character – as performed by James Marsters – was your favorite?

Harry Dresden, of course!

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

Again with the spoiler.

Any additional comments?

This book brought tears to my eyes, something that rarely happens, let alone in a Dresden File. Harry had the hardest choices to make of any other of his stories.

Holy Fuck, yo.

HOLY FUCK
WHAT?
WHY
AAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!


THAT'S NOT EVEN REMOTELY REASONABLE

WORTH THE READ IF YOU LIKE THE SERIES

I MEAN WOW

HOLY FUCK

The book that breaks Harry's limits.

Note: I feel that Death Masks, Book 5, is where reading this series out of order starts to do you an injustice. This book does work as a stand alone to some extent, but you will get major spoilers for the previous books in the series and it also pulls in characters we have met before. So I recommend reading the previous books before you jump into this one.

Out of Harry’s past, Susan Rodriguez gives him a call, though it isn’t to swap the latest news of their lives. Their daughter, Maggie, has been taken by the Red Court vampires and Harry is ready to go on the war path. Harry will give up plenty in this book in order to save a child he has never met.

Way back on my review for Book 3, I said that’s when the series gets real and the ante was upped. Now, this is the book that showed me the author isn’t afraid to push that envelope to the breaking point. I had plenty of emotions on this one, even on the reread. Harry can take only so much abuse!

Susan, who is tainted with Red Court vampire bite but has held off the change all these years, flies into town with her sidekick, Martin (who shares the same affliction). They work with Harry, Thomas, and Murphy to dig up info on one of the leaders of the Red Court, Arianna Ortega. Harry soon learns that he’s got a pair of vampire assassins after him and they have some monstrous near-jaguar thing (which he calls the Ick) with them. The Ick quickly scraps his car and the assassins take out his office. It only gets more heated from there.

Harry calls in every favor owed him and then some in his hunt for info on his daughter’s location. He even burns a few bridges with the White Council of wizards in doing so. A handful of folks guess why this one human child is worth so much to him and all who know advise him to keep that very, very quiet. Meanwhile, Harry is advised to seek out some assistance from crime lord John Marcone, who points him to Monoc Securities. This is one of my favorite little parts of the book. I love that the author starts to pull in some deities as Harry gains in power.

The assassins aren’t done with Harry and he continues to lose things that matter to him. Eventually, he’s trapped between a rock and a hard place and he has to do something he never wanted to do. That was tough. It makes a great read and a great story but I also felt for Harry in that moment when he makes the decision.

The last quarter of the book is this long running battle full of individual triumphs and failures as Harry and his friends face off with the Red Court. It’s incredible! So many people laying it all on the line against such odds and Harry really letting his inner dark side out to play! It was intense but not fatiguing.

There are plenty of repercussions to that lengthy fight. Some we know by the end of the book and some we don’t until later in the series. That’s one thing I really enjoy about this series: your actions have repercussions, no matter your reasons. For instance, Murphy took yet more time off from work to assist Harry and she will pay for that. We also learn some things about Harry’s past and about his mother. All in all, I think this is one of the best books in the series.

Narration: James Marsters continues to do awesome work with this series. He is angry Harry, tender Harry, sad Harry, relieved Harry, etc. He really owns this character. In this book, he also does a great job with some Mayan words (such as the full name of the Ick). His voice for the Red King of the Red Court Vampires is chilling. I also love his voice for the delighted, and perhaps slightly demented, Liana (Harry’s fairy godmother).

Great book

Fantastic series. Not many authors have the guts to unmake the protagonist. He does it well.

THE BEST ONE YET!!!

Changes is hands down THE BEST Dresden Files book yet!!! It is phenomenal!!! Harry at his best!

I just love Jim Butcher's Dresden Files -

If you could sum up Changes: The Dresden Files, Book 12 in three words, what would they be?

Another great adventure

What was one of the most memorable moments of Changes: The Dresden Files, Book 12?

There are too many to list and I don't want to give the story away

What does James Marsters bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

James is a master voice actor. He does not just read the story he performs it. It is like there is a whole host of actors performing the story, not one person reading it. This is more like a radio play than a reading of a book.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

I laughed, I cried, I cheered and I loved it.

Any additional comments?

I am following the while series and I hope Jim Butcher never stops the Dresden Files series.

I have been listening these on my phone. So I put on the headset, go rake the lawn, vacuum the house, run errands as I enjoy the adventures of Harry Dresden.