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It is hard to express my complete enjoyment while reading Cold Days: A Novel of the Dresden Files
I never want a good series to end. However, without naming names, we all know authors who should have ended it while it was still good. Luckily, Jim (may I call you Jim?) is keeping my favorite series going, and making it better and better. His writing, his character development, his depth of emotion, have only improved with each book. The great thing about a series is that certain plot lines can take several books to pan out. I LOVE THAT. It means the author is dedicated to the series, and putting his whole big, beautiful brain to work, just for my enjoyment! (well, and other people too.)
Cold Days is the fourteenth book of the series (not counting a book of short stories) and it's hard to talk about without giving away so much of what has happened overall.
In this book, Harry Dresden, a wizard in modern-day Chicago, is joining the battle against a horde of otherworldly creatures before they let loose an ancient prison of really horrible creatures that he happens to be in charge of. And he's battling an annoying gang of fae creatures who keep getting in the way. And he's trying to avoid a battle with someone whose job it is to battle him. And he's trying to rebuild a life when he lost pretty much everything in the last two books. And he's trying to reconnect with those who love him, even though he knows he's turning into a monster. But he's really battling a bargain he made with a really, really bad-ass queen of the faerie, who now owns him.
If you don't feel like starting at the beginning, start with the previous book Ghost Story.
Although I got this book out of my library, I'm slowly purchasing the series so I can reread at my liesure.
