Cold Days

The Dresden Files, Book 14

De: Jim Butcher

Narrado por: James Marsters

Meet Harry Dresden, Chicago's first (and only) Wizard PI. Turns out the "everyday" world is full of strange and magical things - and most of them don't play well with humans. That's where Harry comes in.

A bargain made with the Queen of Air and Darkness has forced Dresden into a new job: professional killer. His first task is to bring death to an immortal. As if that wasn't hard enough, Dresden learns of a danger to Demonreach, the living island hidden upon Lake Michigan. A danger that could destroy billions and land Dresden in the deepest trouble he has ever known.

Dresden has only 24 hours to gather the allies he has left and prevent a cataclysm - all while the power he bargained to get, but never meant to keep, lays siege to his very soul. Magic - it can get a guy killed.

©2012 Jim Butcher (P)2012 Penguin Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

"The most reliable post-Buffy supernatural series on offer." ( Time Out)

A great story.

I have really enjoyed the dresden series. Am sad that I am at the end...but stars and stones dresden will remsin with me. Thank you.

Rough ride

An enjoyable reread (in the hopes of the next book coming out one day.)
Harry is brought back and, as always in his life, things just keep getting worse and worse. Being the Winter Knight brings him a lot of power but the difficulty of the things he has to do are raised exponentially. The politics of Faery are impossible for a mortal to understand well and poor Harry mucks up a lot.

Great Listen

heartwrenching, thrilling, funny just like always. Hope the goodness keeps on coming. The narrator is still my favourite part of the series though

I just dare you to try and put this book down.

As you're almost smugly waiting for the anticipated next explosive event in a logical progression, it doesn't! Lean back and take a breath from the judder bars of terror, finally a time to rest. BANG!! Where the hell did this unexpected horror come from?! Jim Butcher: Wow! Narration from Spike, James Marsters' huge repertoire of accents and variety of voices, reading with elegant care and appropriate emotion...Wow!!

Better, but still out of shape

This book has a lot going for it, some of the most interesting and lore shaping situations in the whole series, with profound impact on the overall story for Harry and those around him. The twists and turns were surprising, but overall, it has its issues - particularly a very tangible, unignorable bloat.
This one and the previous entry are the longest in the series so far, with nearly 20%, and it is clear they are outside the range where Butcher writes his best work for Harry. The book felt like it should have already ended 5 different times, the yo-yo whiplash of "oh, we're still going" definitely deprived me of some of the fun, the overall pacing noticably hurt. I did enjoy my time with it ultimately and it is one of the big ones, but there is such a thing as "less is more".

No notes to Marsters, guy's a legend.