must read series: the dresden files.
A recent series my husband discovered while browsing buy 3, get 1 free books at Books-a-Million is The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher. This faced paced series is both easy to read and hard to put down. Dresden is a wizard with a good heart, and is a sucker for a woman in distress. He fights everything from demons and vampires to werewolves to save the damsel as well as his own hide. He’s normally paired up with Karen Murphy, a saucy police offer in charge of SI, the Special Investigations unit of the police force. Murphy gets all of the “strange” cases, and Dresden is often paid as a police consultant to help with solving these unusual crimes. As you proceed through this series, you’ll find yourself becoming completely enamored with the lives of all the players in these stories as well as the mysteries that seem to constantly surround them. This is paranormal fiction at its best, pulling you through a full range of emotions from page 1 to the very end. It’s also the only series that both my husband and I can agree on that we like. Adam, the husband, is typically more of a history buff, leaning toward books about either World War I or World War II, code breaking, and I guess what you would call P.I. novels. I reluctantly started this series at first, then zipped through all six books within a matter of weeks. Jim’s newest addition to the series is White Night due out in bookstores April 3rd. But you’ll want to start with the first book, Storm Front.
Once you’ve read the series, be sure to check out the new television show, The Dresden Files, on SciFi, Sundays at 9pm. While I’ve found the tv series can’t compare to the books - the books are still leaps and bounds better than the show - they’re fun to watch regardless just to see the changes they’ve made to some of the prominent characters. Oh, and did I mention Harry has a spirit, named Bob, who lives in a human skull and who feeds him information, helps him with spells, that sort of thing. In return, Harry keeps Bob well stocked with Victoria’s Secret catalogs and trashy romance novels.
