I loved the TV series first...Paul Blackthorne makes a great Harry and I love Terrance Mann (great singing voice, btw) as Bob!! But I'm finding that I really enjoy the books as well. I find that the adaption for the tv series is done well, tweaking things to make it more hip and not so complex - fun to watch and highly entertaining - and the book has the depth of background (that may one day be developed in the show).

Their both great on their own, but together they are fabulous!!

I highly recommend them both ;-p

Harry Dresden faces down a variety of werewolves in fights across Chicago. ( )

Great books great show too (too bad they took it off air) ( )

I really enjoyed Fool Moon. I loved the wizarding stuff with the spells and the potions. The mystery was solid and kept me guessing. My only problem was that certain parts were a bit confusing due to the multitude of different kinds of werewolves. It took a while for the definition of each one sunk in enough for me to remember which was which but once I got it the story flowed smoothly. A really fun paranormal mystery. ( )

The second in the Dresden Files series; Harry is facing multiple species of werewolf and the growing sensation that someone is out to kill him (someone other, that is, than the ferocious Loup-Garrou, a group of hexenwolves, a pack of shape-shifters, Murphy – who wants to arrest him, and John Marcone who wants to recruit him). Butcher manages to inject pathos and humour into his chaos; this and a couple of small teasers setting up later trails for Harry to chase, layers his already round personality very nicely… the sense that there’s a continuing life here, more than a page one to page done story, is the most satisfying element to the tale.

I get a big kick out of the speed at which Harry’s life goes to hell every time I open one of these books. Butcher’s stories are all pace, torture, and lightening-fast scary scenario changes, with Harry’s slightly distanced but forthright first-person narration never taking you out of the moment. For all the pace, the plotting is as tight as the first book… Butcher is apparently a maestro at the private-detective-with-a-twist genre; I’ve yet to encounter a dropped ball of any description, except (and this is a personal taste thing) the super fast narrating of events that occur after the last action scene, a tidying-up in almost short-hand form that feels as though it’s primary goal is to leave Butcher free to drop Harry into something hot on the first page of the next book, rather than discuss life-since-we-left-him-last.

I’m really enjoying this series. *heads back to the bookshelf for the next one* ( )