Storm Front by Jim Butcher

Storm Front by Jim Butcher

My rating: 2 of 5 stars


For the group reread. My God, I’d forgotten what a terrible book this is, in my wryly pained affection for the later series. It’s not even just that the protagonist is an asshole, though he is (and a multi-flavor asshole for extra points, with ‘sexist’ and ‘patronizing’ for topnotes). It’s not even that I hate this sort of lone ranger secretive warrior bullshit. Particularly with a character like Harry Dresden, who at this point is all clichés and traumatic history (or is that redundant?) and who definitely can’t support the entire book on his own.



No, it’s actually just a bad book. It runs on coincidences, it’s all external forces and no internal. There’s even a glaringly obvious continuity error at the end with a pair of handcuffs which are apparently both open and closed at the same time. It must be magic. But I can’t blame the copyeditor for having gone glaze-eyed at that point.



Ah well. I’m here for the fandom, anyway.





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