Storm Front

The Dresden Files, Book 1

By: Jim Butcher

Narrated by: James Marsters

Length: 8 hrs and 1 min

Publisher's summary

My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk. I'm a wizard. I work out of an office in midtown Chicago. As far as I know, I'm the only openly practicing professional wizard in the country. You can find me in the yellow pages, under Wizards. Believe it or not, I'm the only one there.

With rent past due and a decent meal becoming an issue of some importance, Harry needs work, and soon. A call from a distraught wife, and another from Lt. Murphy of the Chicago PD Special Investigation Unit makes Harry believe things are looking up, but they are about to get worse, much worse. Someone is harnessing immense supernatural forces to commit a series of grisly murders. Someone has violated the first law of magic: Thou Shalt Not Kill. Tracking that someone takes Harry into the dangerous underbelly of Chicago, from mobsters to vampires, while he himself is under suspicion of the crimes.

©2000 Jim Butcher (P)2002 Buzzy Multimedia

The start of something beautiful!

A perfect start to my favorite series out there. It's my second time going through the series and I have loved it more this listen through. Jim butcher makes the best characters.

A Fun Listen

Great book. Hard to put down. Narration was well done, too. Excited to listen to the next one.

Simply a lot of fun

I a relatively new to Fantasy genre and in the midst of other heavy Epic Fantasy series reading. This book was a simple, well written and read delight. I liked the small cast of characters and straight ahead storytelling. I'm looking forward to sprinkling this series in between Malazan and Stormlight books.

Either they fixed it by the time I got to it or it's just negative nellies, I didn't notice the production value being too bad. Yes, they could have used a thicker sock on the mic but there was not an over abundance of background noise noted in other reviews.

A Wonderful "New to Me" Series

I have just discovered the Dresden Files series and I can't wait for the next (already purchased and downloaded)! Great characters, plenty of action and humor, an interesting world, and a consistently good story made this book a terrific listen. Storm Front is a well woven mashup of mystery and fantasy and if either genre appeals to you, then you're going to enjoy this story.

one of my favorite audio series.

great tone from narrator and the story was witty and enjoyable. I am throughly loving the series

I hope the narration gets better.

I rather enjoyed the story and the concept of a modern day wizard. I would like to listen to overs but the narrator bothers me immensely. He sounds as if everything is just so unbelievably tedious. Huge breaths is strange places (like the middle of a sentence) and lots of other mouth noises that were generally distracting. He tended to sound as if he was sighing through the whole book. I have read other reviews that seem to indicate the reader might actually get better (he reads all of the Dresden stories as far as I could tell) so I might give more in the series a chance because I did enjoy the story for the author’s part. We will see...

Quite a lot of fun!

Quite fun and easy listening. Great voice acting. Sometimes you may hear a little white noise in the background, but once I managed to think of it as if Dresden himself was recording his story, It made even more sense and I stopped paying attention to it.

Harry Dresden--Never a peaceful moment

If you are worrried about falling asleep while driving, this is the book series for you. Filled with vivid tense scary events, it keeps me on the edge of my carseat!! James Marsden is an awesome reader. I'm going purchase every one of these books!

A fun story

A fun story with a great narrator. I am looking forward to listening to the rest of the series.

Best narrator

James Marsters is the best narrator I've ever listened to. The story was really fun, I give it a 4 as a great rating. I plan on listening to more.