Archetypes of “The Dresden Files”
By Theresa Bane
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By now I am sure everyone knows how much I adore The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher. However, for those of you who just landed on this planet and are unaware… The Dresden Files are a series of books written by novelist extraordinaire Jim Butcher. The series is centered on the main character, Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden, Chicago’s only P.I. wizard.
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Bone Crossed by Patricia Briggs
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Jemma 7729
Author: Phoebe Wray
Publisher: Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy
ISBN-10: 1894063406
ISBN-13: 978-1894063401
Rating: 4.8/10
One might wonder what a book about a butt-kicking, gun toting female rebelling against the male-dominated patriarchy is doing with a 4.8 rating. Simple. It’s a great idea. But it is a great idea executed poorly. While Wray’s anguished, nonconformist main character is sympathetic and believable (for the most part) the two dimensional plot and the ham-handed supporting cast render it less than ideal.
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White Witch, Black Curse
Book 7 of The Hollows
Author: Kim Harrison
Publisher: Eos (February 24, 2009)
ISBN-10: 0061138010
ISBN-13: 978-0061138010
Warning:
Spoilers for The Outlaw Demon Wails (The Hollows, Book 6)
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Harry In Hot Water:
or why is my shower cold and my ice cream warm?
Physics in The Dresden Files and how a wizards’ life might be made more comfortable.
Having read sci-fi and fantasy all of my life, I am always fascinated when the author goes to such trouble as to try make the work believable rather than just depend upon the suspension of disbelief by the reader. Jim Butcher has woven a most cohesive Dresdenverse out of what has always been such diverse lore of the supernatural, occult, and fantasy realms. Most of the authors who do put forth the effort to make their worlds work, don’t discuss it openly within the work, but just let it be there humming in the background of the story. Jim Butcher is different that way and he let’s us in on how things tick. Butcher’s characters are constantly acknowledging the harmonies and conflicts between the laws of physics and the laws of magic. It set my mind to wondering how and why certain things work and at times do not work within the carefully crafted structure of Harry Dresden’s world.
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