Watched a few episodes of the Dresden Files TV show online… decent by themselves, but when you know the books, they just fall very short. Too much of a crime show, not enough magic. It was probably budgeting issues at the ground level. It’s such a shame, because Paul Blackthorne really fits as Harry Dresden. And the ‘cover art’ with him holding up that little ball of bluish-white flame is gorgeous.
Storm FrontJim Butcher Storm Front is the first book of the Dresden Files, about which I’d heard a lot of good things in the corridors of the internet. Urban fantasy has been my genre of choice since I first discovered it, but the books that I’ve read in the same vein as the Dresden Files normally have female main characters. (And female authors, of course, but that’s a much more convoluted issue.) The differences, under Harry Dresden, are a surprising pleasure. With a female main character, there’s always this sort of desperate drive to prove herself, a ramrod tension where […]