Proven Guilty: The Dresden Files, Book 8

. From Publishers Weekly Harry Dresden, Chicago's only consulting wizard, takes on phobophages, creatures that feed on fear who attack a horror film convention, in the diverting eighth installment of Butcher's increasingly complicated Dresden Files series (Dead Beat, etc.). Harry finds that fighting monsters is only the prelude to maneuvers amid the warring wizards of the White Council and the vampire Red Court. Deeper fears do run through the book, and Harry, taking on an apprentice, has to face up to the consequences of his all-too-human failings. The body count from the magical melees, however, would do any hard-boiled gumshoe proud. (May)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Less and less V.I. Butcher's believable, likable set of characters go for the jocular much more than the jugular. Look for the series to really take off with the debut of a two-hour pilot on the Sci-Fi Channel t

Malevolent entities that feed on fear are loose in the Windy City, but it's all in a day's work for a wizard, his faithful dog, and a talking skull named Bob.. Unabridged CDs ? 13 CDs, 16 hoursThe White Council of Wizards has drafted Harry Dresden as a Warden and assigned him to look into rumors of black magic in Chicago

another solid book in a great series Sneaky Burrito I finished the Dresden Files books I got on promo and so now I'm working my way through the rest (at regular price). I'd be hard pressed to say anything too negative about the series because I've been enjoying it a lot. But here are my thoughts, a few days after finishing the latest installment.This book opens with an execution -- of a teenager who'd stumbled into his magical abilit. TKnite said Another Good Installment. After a bit of hiatus from The Dresden Files, I found this book to be a little bit of a letdown. The plot didn’t seem as well organized to me as the ones from past books, and the stakes, while high, didn’t really surpass those of previous books. Proven Guilty, from my point of view, read more like a lead-in to another stage of the series — which isn’t necessa. A Turning Point This book is a tremendous read. It displays all the qualities Jim Butcher's works have: good characterization, great pacing, interesting twists, and great action sequences. Butcher, with this book, turns down the road from fledgling author who can tell a good story to a Veteran author comfortably able to weave a fantastic tale. He is far more confident in this stage of his career. H