Fool Moon

I wanted to quit this book so many times but I powered through it, this is a series that has been recommended to me over and over again. I really hope it gets better soon or I am quitting. There are some good things here, but they are utterly undone by frustrating and annoying characters. Somewhere around the 50th time Dresden slipped into a \”poor me\” monologue of him blaming himself for things that are usually in no way his fault, I decided that he might be the whiniest character I have ever read. But at least he is somewhat redeemable, with his never give up attitude, no matter what is in front of him he just keeps going and fighting. Which is good because the other annoying quality to his character in this book is he is always almost dead, from almost go in this book he is always one inch from death, which would be a great tension builder if it wasn\’t so overused here. But the thing about this book that made me want to hurl my headphones across the room is Murphy, she is one of the most infuriating and insufferable characters I have ever put up with in a book. She is way too much of a hot headed to be remotely believable as the great detective that Dresden says she is. The second something supernatural happens that Dresden didn\’t tell her about she is punching, trying to arrest him, or saying she can\’t trust him. Jim Butcher does such a huge disservice to what should be a strong female character by making her unreasonable and distrusting, and the only reason he does this is to advance the plot. If Murphy and Dresden are working together the plot of this book is resolved much easier and quicker, so she is turned into a character whose death I wished for on every page just to push the plot along. The next book in this series better be worlds better or I think I am done. This is the worst book I have suffered through in years.

I don\’t know if detective Murphy it\’s supposed to be likeable or easy to relate to but her bitchyness in combo with Dresdens self loathing nature completely ruin this book.

The story was good but the reader needed to drink some water or something. He keeps lip smacking throughout the book which is like listening to someone eat hot wings. Very distracting.

I first discovered The Dresden Files series on NetFlix and was instantly hooked. I was nervous about reading Jim Butcher\’s books after seeing the series, worrying that my preconceptions and possible knowledge of plotlines might take away from the experience, but there\’s so much more to the characters and stories that I didn\’t even think of the TV series as I listened. Wonderful characters, wonderful stories, wonderful prose. I liked Marster\’s narration better in the second book. In fact, as much as I loved the first book, I found the second far more enjoyable, suspenseful, and thought provoking.

I was looking for another engaging series to try after reading all of Charlaine Harris\’ Sookie Stackhouse books and found Jim Butcher\’s books. Harry Dresden, a wizard/detective in Chicago, is a very quirky, compelling main character who gets himself in one unbelievable predicament after another. I found the writing style of this second Dresden book to be decidedly improved from the first (Storm Front). Although there is still some hackneyed detective-genre prose to make me cringe at times, I am won over by Jim Butcher\’s talent for painting these characters, creating an intriguing paranormal universe, and some twisty-turny storylines that keep you guessing. Fool Moon (nice pun, BTW) is about Harry\’s search to discover the source of a recent spate of killings, presumably by a werewolf. You will learn more about the different flavors of werewolf than you ever thought you wanted to know, and how they kill their prey (warning: not for the squeamish!) I\’m going to download the rest of the Dresden series because I just have to know what happens next to Harry and how he\’ll get out of it!

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