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White Night
Jim Butcher
Roc, April 2007, $23.95, 416 pp.
ISBN 0451461401
If someone told Chicago wizard Harry Dresden that he would one day be a warden in the White Council of Wizards, he wouldn’t have believed them. Many of the council think he is too much of a troublemaker, but with the war with the Red Court Vampires, the ranks of the powerful wizards are needed. Harry had no choice but to accept the mantle of responsibility.
His friend Sargent Murphy (yes she got demoted) calls him to look at a dead woman. He opens his inner sense to find she was murdered and was a mid level practitioner of magic. When another corpse is found dead, killed in the same manner by someone, who left her to die, Harry believes it has something to do with the White Court Vampires who feed on emotions rather than the blood like their red court cousins. This makes no sense to Harry because the white court is seeking peace with the wizard’s council. Across the country at least thirty-six were killed in the same manner. It soon becomes evident that some of the white court members don’t want to make peace with the wizards and at each scene men in a grey suit that the warden’s wear is seen. If the peace treaty is to take effect Harry and his allies have to find out who the rebels are and defeat them in the traditional manner.
Each novel starring Harry Dresden is better than the one that precedes it as Jim Butcher is a great world builder who makes the reader believes the hidden supernatural community is very real. Harry has changed and grown with the passage of time and now is part of the establishment that once wanted to destroy him. He handles responsibility as if to manor born with his dry wit and self deprecating humor which is part of the plot as it keeps him focused while using his adept skills. As Dresden goes the TV route, Mr. Butcher is a first class talent in the supernatural mystery fantasy genre as this book shows he remains true to his protagonist’s roots.
Jim Butcher
Roc, April 2007, $23.95, 416 pp.
ISBN 0451461401
If someone told Chicago wizard Harry Dresden that he would one day be a warden in the White Council of Wizards, he wouldn’t have believed them. Many of the council think he is too much of a troublemaker, but with the war with the Red Court Vampires, the ranks of the powerful wizards are needed. Harry had no choice but to accept the mantle of responsibility.
His friend Sargent Murphy (yes she got demoted) calls him to look at a dead woman. He opens his inner sense to find she was murdered and was a mid level practitioner of magic. When another corpse is found dead, killed in the same manner by someone, who left her to die, Harry believes it has something to do with the White Court Vampires who feed on emotions rather than the blood like their red court cousins. This makes no sense to Harry because the white court is seeking peace with the wizard’s council. Across the country at least thirty-six were killed in the same manner. It soon becomes evident that some of the white court members don’t want to make peace with the wizards and at each scene men in a grey suit that the warden’s wear is seen. If the peace treaty is to take effect Harry and his allies have to find out who the rebels are and defeat them in the traditional manner.
Each novel starring Harry Dresden is better than the one that precedes it as Jim Butcher is a great world builder who makes the reader believes the hidden supernatural community is very real. Harry has changed and grown with the passage of time and now is part of the establishment that once wanted to destroy him. He handles responsibility as if to manor born with his dry wit and self deprecating humor which is part of the plot as it keeps him focused while using his adept skills. As Dresden goes the TV route, Mr. Butcher is a first class talent in the supernatural mystery fantasy genre as this book shows he remains true to his protagonist’s roots.
