Grave Peril
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- ISBN13: 9780451462343
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Now in hardcover from the New York Times bestselling leader of The Dresden Files.
Harry Dresden’s faced some pretty terrifying foes during his career. Giant scorpions. Oversexed vampires. Psychotic werewolves. All par for the course for Chicago’s only professional wizard.
But in all of Harry’s years of supernatural sleuthing, he’s never faced anything like this: the spirit world’s gone postal. All over Chicago, ghosts are causing distress—and not just of the door-slamming, ‘boo’- shouting variety. These ghosts are tormented, violent, and deadly.
A name—or something—is stirring them up to wreak unearthly havoc. But why? And why do so many of the victims have ties to Harry? If Harry doesn’t figure it out soon, he could wind up a ghost himself.
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Harry Dresden is back again as self-righteous, irritating, and painstakingly unlikable as ever.
The plot of this book is appealing, but can’t overcome shallow, insipid characters and dialog so terrible that you’ll find yourself thinking that whoever wrote ‘The Hardy Boys’ series should be place up for a Nobel prize.
Play it safe and avoid this book and all “Dresden Files” books.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I selected up and loved the first book in this series, so bought the second and third together expecting more like STORM FRONT. Sorry to say Butcher fell into the same trap so many authors have done. The reviewers compare this series to that of Laurell Hamilton, and it does do the same pattern only quicker. It only took three books for Butcher to change what was a excellent urban fantasy/mystery about a private investigator/wizard into an attempt at a modern fantasy epic in which the main character is the pivotal element in a worldwide war between wizards and vampires.
I don’t know why so many of the fantasy writers seem determined that any character they make has to become Frodo. I was looking for a nice urban fantasy/mystery like Mercedes Lackey or Tanya Huff do so well.
Buy the first book, skip the rest.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
This would be a far better book if I had never lived in Chicago. But I did live in Chicago for a few years — long enough to admit MANY inaccuracies in Butcher’s geography of Chicago. Some of them could have been avoided if he’d looked at any map of the city. These errors distract from the tale enough to make it annoying to read at times: some of the things the character does do not make sense, or are not even possible, in real-world Chicago. (One example: Why take city streets through one of the worst parts of town when an entrance to Lakeshore Drive is two blocks away?) My spouse, a Chicago native, establish the inaccuracies about Chicago painful enough that he couldn’t end the book. These problems cost the book 1.5 stars.
The additional problem is his writing style, which feels forced at times. The paragraph about how Dresden likes to decorate with textures rather than colors seems like it was lifted nearly-verbatim from the previous two books. (No, I didn’t search for it.) There are additional things like this that bug me about his books. This costs another half-star.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
About middle into this book, having read the first two, I started to grow concerned regarding the heavy Christian themes. The further I read, the worse it got, until I finally I had to place the book down.
After a bit of research into the following books, I establish that this wasn’t a theme that was likely to change.
Until I got sick of it, this was the best book in the series. It’s too terrible the religious pinnings ruined it.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
I cannot judge this book got such excellent ratings. It was poorly written, with such a scatterbrained plot that I could barely follow the tale…in fact, I even skimmed over pages that got too windy, just to keep the tale flowing. And for the like of God, we are in the third book already, I reflect we all know that Dresden is a GREAT wizard, more powerful than most…blah, blah, blah…I don’t need to keep reading his self-centered rambling every additional page on how excellent of a wizard he is. We get it, he is the poo…go on and stop stalling the tale with his mental ego-stroking every chapter. Oh, and teach the man some additional catch axiom than “Hells-bells” already. Jesus, he says it like 20 times in the book, sometimes in consecutive sentences! He sounds like a 5 year ancient that just learned a new “terrible” word. And finally, the climax of the novel to the end of the tale is less than the last 1/4 of the book. It needed to be a small more developed than just bringing the tale to a crashing end in as few pages as possible. Maybe if Harry had not been so caught up in telling us over and over how fantastic he is, there would have been more room for a properly paced progression from the climax. Maybe.
Now before a name comes in and tries to tell me that I am just hating and all…I loved the first book in this series, the second was not terrible either…but this, the third one, sucked. I thought I would try ordering #4 and #5 since they had excellent reviews, but then I saw the reviews for this one and have chose to punt. There is too much additional excellent fiction out there to waste time on a chance like this.
And what really kills me, is I loved the show on Sci-Fi, and they cancelled it. I wanted to like this series, but I am worried that this series and character needs more refinement. Maybe that is why it is not offered in hardcover or trade paperback.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5