Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, Book 4)

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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: 0451458923
Manufacturer: Roc
Release Date: 2002-09-03
Average Customer Review: (From 73 total reviews)
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Editorial Reviews

Product Description:
Private detective/wizard-for-hire Harry Dresden is suckered into tangling in the affairs of Faerie, where the fate of the entire world-and his soul-are at stake.

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Private detective/wizard-for-hire Harry Dresden is suckered into tangling in the affairs of Faerie, where the fate of the entire world-and his soul-are at stake.

Customer Reviews

A series that only gets better by Michael Hickerson
With the Dresden Files, Jim Butcher is doing the impossible–writing a series that gets more entertaining with every book. Easily the best fantasy series on the market today, I’d even go so far as to say that the Dresden Files novels are as good as, if not better than another series of books with a guy name Harry in them.

The fourth book in the series “Summer Knight” is one that will not disappoint readers. Picking up a few months after the events of “Grave Peril” in which Harry lost a girlfriend, made a deal with his faerie godmother to save himself and his friend and precipiated a war between the White Council and the Red Council, Harry starts the novel in a bad place. He’s obsessed with finding a cure for his lost love Susan, he’s barely been in the office in months, he’s aliennating his friends and he’s got a price on his head by the Red Council. And that’s even before he finds out that his faerie godmother sold the favors he owed her to another and the White Council is coming to town.

The story unfolds at a natural but rewarding pace. Butcher has a natural ability to have events build on each other and he pays off hints from previous novels as well as dropping in hints of things to come. And this book feels like just a snapshot of a few of the big events in Harry’s life over the course of a couple of days from the grander scheme of things. The strength in these stories is they’re rewarding to read just as stand-alone novels, but taken within the greater context of the series, they add even greater layers. And while I will recommend reading them in order, Butcher does enough to bring in new readers that you can drop in on Harry at this point and not feel hopelessly lost. All the while, he doesn’t aliennate long-term readers with pages of recap.

A great series of books that only gets better. This is the best I’ve read in the series and I can’t wait to start the next one.

Oh one word of warning: Don’t start any of the Dresden books if you’ve got things to do like sleep, go to work, spend time with the family. These are the types of books that will consume you, demanding your attention to savor every page and anticipating what will come on the next.

Author is a great story teller by Suzanne Metaxas
These books are great! If you love science fiction you will love these books. The author is funny, witty and holds your interest from cover to cover. I ordered the complete set and read through it in a week! I hope they bring the television series back to SciFi. It is more entertaining a series that SciFi brought back, Dr. Who, or as I call it “the doctor’s non habit forming sleep remedy”! I’m going to reread them soon since I enjoyed them so much! I’m sure there were things I missed on the first go around. I’m also looking forward to the next book in the series.

Summer Knight by Randall H. Blinn
I thoroughly enjoyed this novel,Mr Butcher keeps you engrossed through the entire experience. I would like to thank him for a well written book.

dresden files by Elizabeth A. Reed
I first saw a segment of the Dresden Files on TV. Had never known about it before, so I thought I would try a book. Enjoyed the book, so I have now read the whole series of books and am waiting for the next ones. I personally don’t know how much magic there is, but the principles of the book are good. Light, dark, good , bad and all the temptations out there that send people to the dark side of life.

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