Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, Book 4) by Jim Butcher

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Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, Book 4)
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Updated on 12-28-2008.

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Audio CD

Publisher: Buzzy Multimedia; Unabridged edition (March 31, 2007)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0979074924

ISBN-13: 978-0979074929

Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 5.3 x 1.4 inches

Shipping Weight: 8 ounces ()

Product Description
Summer Knight Audio Book
10 CD's - Unabridged
Written By Jim Butcher
Read By James Marsters (Spike from Buffy The Vampire Slayer & Angel)
HARRY DRESDEN WIZARD Lost items found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, or Other Entertainment
Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden is a very powerful wizard and a dedicated private eye. He is also a wise cracking trouble magnet.
Fueled by a tempest of guilt, sleep deprivation, malnutrition, bad temper and frankly awful personal grooming. Harry is hurtling toward oblivion. According to Harry that is nobody's business but his own.
The Winter Queen of Faerie manipulates him into accepting a case to solve a murder and stop a war between the courts of Summer and Winter that could have literally earth shattering consequences. His own soul is up for grabs. Dresden must dig deep to discover that at time a willingness to accept a little help from your friends, be they a cub pack of werewolves, old loves in sheep's clothing, or a battalion of pizza loving dewdrop fairies, is a very good thing.
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From AudioFile
If Harry Dresden is familiar to you from The Dresden Files on the Sci Fi Channel or from other books in the series, you will find him once again up to his neck in trouble. If new to you, Harry is easy to get to know. A bit unorthodox as wizards go, he finds his wisecracking gets him into trouble with just about everyone. James Marsters helps make extraordinary events and characters seem a part of ordinary life, even gatherings where Latin is spoken. He uses accents and tone to good effect in conveying the attitudes and personalities of the characters. Maintaining control of the story, he skillfully heightens the suspense as necessary but also ratchets down the intensity when appropriate. J.E.M. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

Reader Reviews
This review is from: Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, Book 4) (Mass Market Paperback) In the previous volume of this series, 'Grave Peril,' Harry Dresden's heroics had ruined a relationship, made enemies of just about every vampire in the world, and put all his fellow wizards at considerable risk. It is no surprise to find this volume opening with Harry succumbing to severe depression, hiding in his basement laboratory desperately seeking a cure for Susan's vampire curse, while his life gradually crumbles around him. Nothing is worse than a guilt filled wizard who has given up on housecleaning. Harry's life being what it is, in no time at all things get very much worse. First, a little old lady turns into a ghoul and nearly eats him, then Queen Mab of the Faerie's Winter Court informs him that she now holds his debt, and then the White Council of the wizards comes to Chicago to have a wee chat with their most wayward member. The only way Harry can avoid becoming toast is to make a deal with (you guessed) Queen Mab herself. This will provide the wizards have another option besides offering Harry up as a blood bag. Mab doesn't want much, she just needs Harry to find out who killed the Summer Knight before Armageddon breaks out all over. Other than some assistance from a troop of pizza eating pixies, a den of young-adult werewolves, and a few faerie may-not-wannabees, Harry is on his own in this one. Unless you want to count the people (and not quite people) who are trying to kill him as company. Whatever the reason for the murder was, no one wants Harry to find it. Out of the six queens who rule Faerie, one has hired him and the other five just might kill him on sight. Yet he must talk to them all, as well as their supporters. Sometimes it seems that the vampires would have been a better choice. I grumbled a bit about Harry's haplessness in my review of 'Grave Peril,' and 'Summer Knight' started out the same way. Harry has this compulsion to be a hero. And this continually gets him in trouble. Unlike the previous volume, however, the crises of this one seem to make Harry begin to pull himself back together. He develops enough gumption to keep him from always playing the role of victim, and this makes 'Summer Knight' a very likeable effort. The result is an interesting story with a rich variety of characters. A good read all around. Hard-boiled, tongue-in-cheek, wizard detectives are a rare commodity, and need to be nurtured. The dash of grittiness that Butcher used is just what is needed to keep the fantasy from becoming overblown. Harry's spell casting is a bit too theatrical for me (everyone else waves a hand, Harry uses a wand AND a staff, as well as shouting in Latin). But a wizard has to do what a wizard has to do. I believe that Jim Butcher has begun to show the quality of which he is capable. This bodes well for the future of the series.

Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, Book 4)
List Price: $44.95
Available from Amazon
Price: $44.95
Updated on 12-28-2008.