Storm Front (The Dresden Files #1)

I\’ve heard a lot of great things about the Dresden Files and for all I know it gets much better in the later books but I found this book sooo boring and kind of obnoxious. 1. Writing feels very poor. Lots of cliché, weak character, and personally I found a lot of the trends very obnoxious. For example, every time Dresden meets a female character, she\’s described in this weird sort of sexual way as though Dresden is a really insecure lonely teenager. The pace is slow, soooo slow. It just drags along with piles of uninteresting details. 2. The narration drove me mad. There is a ton of sort of mouth noises, the sound of his spit or lips clicking and him breathing in loudly, I could barely stand it. And since the whole book is in first person every line is very over acted, the cadence and rhythm lurches around like a amateur theatre actor\’s reading the whole thing. I\’m listening to it now and I swear if he swallows audibly one more time I\’m going to scream.

The. Worst. Mouth. Noises. Ever. I seriously wondered if he was eating bananas. Who hurt you James!? Who hurt you!? Drink some water and stop licking peanut butter off the microphone. I couldn’t finish the book and I really tried.

It was a good book, but the narrators heavy breathing got really old really fast. Listen if you can manage.

I wanted to like the main character, Harry Dresden, and the story, especially given that this book was highly rated when I came across it, and the concept of a modern-day wizard detective (as Dresden is) holds good entertainment potential for me. However, from his heavy sighs to sharp intakes of breath to sounds of his mouth opening and closing to mumbling, the narrator made listening to this story a torturous experience for me. I struggled to finish and was relieved when the book was over. (I could have stopped midway and returned it, but I really wanted to give the story a chance despite the flaws in the delivery.) I chose this book because I was hoping to get wrapped up in a new mystery series and this is the first book. Maybe I\’d consider another if there is a different narrator; however, at this point, I\’m planning to try my luck elsewhere.

Love the Dresden files. I think it takes a little while to get rolling. The characters are strong from the outset and the plot is well constructed, but my favorite part of the series is world building.

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