Dresden Files: Storm Front

[jackofallgeeks]

So, just the other day I finished reading Storm Front, the first book in the Dresden Files series. This says something significant because I only started it, what, a week ago maybe? Sure, it was only about 400 pages long, but I've never been known for my reading speed. it usually takes me several weeks or over a month to finish a book, at the very least because I don't take time to read. Not so with this; I didn't want to put it down.

Some of it was pretty formulaic. like how the author would explain some key point a chapter or two before it became a crucial tool for the hero to get out of a tight spot. I think I would have liked to be a little less aware of that. But I really liked the modern-fantasy/noir feel to the setting. I liked how magic was handled, and the way it interacted with the 'regular' world. I might have a couple gripes with a detail here or there, but I liked it.

I just ordered Book Two off of B&N.com; I'm gonna get some value out of that Membership I got for Christmas, after all. I also threw in a Jars of Clay CD and a Palladium RPG book -- both of which I would have gotten eventually, anyways -- so that I could get free shipping.

I wonder if that's a fallacy of some sort, that somehow it's foolish to buy fewer large oders in an attempt to save on shipping, kinda like saving $2.00 on an 8lb jar of mayonnaise. Except that I'll actually read all these books (eventually); I hardly ever read mayonnaise.

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I've also read the first book in that series; Mina lent it to me. I think I am really hooked. It's al ot different from the other books I read that deal with magic, and the tasteful and not graphic sex was a big plus for me.

You'll have to let me know how the next one goes. I am waiting for the library to pick it up so I can read it.