Skin Game

A Novel of the Dresden Files, Book 15

By: Jim Butcher

Narrated by: James Marsters

Length: 15 hrs and 49 mins

Publisher's summary

Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, is about to have a very bad day.…

Because as Winter Knight to the Queen of Air and Darkness, Harry never knows what the scheming Mab might want him to do. Usually, it’s something awful.

He doesn’t know the half of it.…

Mab has just traded Harry's skills to pay off one of her debts. And now he must help a group of supernatural villains - led by one of Harry's most dreaded and despised enemies, Nicodemus Archleone - to break into the highest-security vault in town, so that they can then access the highest-security vault in the Nevernever.

It's a smash-and-grab job to recover the literal Holy Grail from the vaults of the greatest treasure hoard in the supernatural world - which belongs to the one and only Hades, Lord of the freaking Underworld and generally unpleasant character. Worse, Dresden suspects that there is another game afoot that no one is talking about. And he's dead certain that Nicodemus has no intention of allowing any of his crew to survive the experience. Especially Harry.

Dresden's always been tricky, but he's going to have to up his backstabbing game to survive this mess - assuming his own allies don’t end up killing him before his enemies get the chance.…

©2014 Jim Butcher (P)2014 Penguin Audio

Excellent!

While still dripping with a few too many feelings, this was Dresden at his best!

Butcher continues to build toward Armageddon

What made the experience of listening to Skin Game the most enjoyable?

First off I have to say that James Marsters is phenomenal in his performance of these characters. I have bought both the hardcover book and the audible recording and I love listening to Marsters do his thing every time!

What did you like best about this story?

Jim Butcher continues to build a fantastic series that makes you wonder how many books this could actually go on for... but it really does get better from book 3 on through 15 now. Butcher has said he intends the series to be 20-ish books ending with a Apocalyptic trilogy, so no doubt as we've seen things are starting to get even worse for our favorite wizard and Skin Game continues to help set the stage for what should be an amazing ending to this incredible series.

Which scene was your favorite?

As for my favorite scene in the book... it would have to be the one where Harry is talking about someone's dog named Spot... I'll leave it at that so as not to spoil anything. =)

Any additional comments?

Overall another incredible book from Butcher and well worth the wait. If you can't get enough and don't know what to do while waiting for Book 16 to come out, do yourself a favor and read Butcher's other series, The Codex of Alera. Fair warning, much like Dresden files the first 2 books are a little slower (still good), but by book 3 the story takes off and becomes great. It is "only" a 6 book series, but well worth your time!

Worthy addition to an increasingly landmark series

Any additional comments?

Harry's character arc is one of the most impressive feats in genre fiction. It is why I adore this series, and Skin Game is no exception. Harry continues to develop as a man, father, friend, mentor, leader, and protector. He continues to learn from his mistakes, learns to trust others, begins to allow others into his life and become vulnerable to them. Jim Butcher does a superb job reweaving aspects of previous stories into the narrative, enriching the fabric. The majority of this story is a caper which is seemingly divorced from the primary foreboding conflict in the series, but does serve to complete Harry's return to Chicago, friends and family and to acknowledge and nudge the story back toward the conflict revealed in Cold Days. Butcher gives each character a moment to shine, to reveal themselves and the growth they have experienced since we last saw them. No one is static in this universe, and that is unique and rewarding.

Excellent

Can't wait for the next book in the series, I want to see how the new character develope.

Good even the second time.

Good series. it doesn't get the respect it deserves. I read the book for the second time and still great.

great book like all of the Dresden files books

just a great book too read. can't wait for the next book peace talks just read it

Amazing Book and series! More Dresden please!!

So glad I started this series. Little rocky in the beginning but great later. And this book was great.

Parkour!

What made the experience of listening to Skin Game the most enjoyable?

James Marsters's just make the book, he has become Harry Dresen to me.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Harry, he just comes off a what I think a real wizard would be like.

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

All of them, he just makes them more real.

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

Always laugh at Harry's view on the situations he gets himself into.

Any additional comments?

Great book in a great series.

As always, another great Dresden files installment

Great book, and agreat way to wrap up the series, can't wait for the new ones!

Jim Butcher and James Marsters Bring Their A game.

Is you're read Dresden Files 1-14 this review is irrelevant, you know what quality to expect. If you haven't read 1-14 you owe it to yourself to read them, and really owe it to your friends to get them to read them as well. They';ll thank you for it.

This is another BIG book, in that there is major development in a lot of the characters.

If I have any complaint its that the book references a number of short stories butcher has written for various anthologyseries that haven't been collected in one place yet. And I hope that another collection of Dresden short stories will be offered soon.