Title: Fool Moon (Book 2 of the Dresden Files)Author: Jim Butcher
Genre: Urban fantasy
Verdict: A worthy and thrilling follow-up. Very satisfied.
I read and Chopped the first Dresden Files novel, Storm Front, back in December. You all have Porter to thank for getting me started on this series, which is well-written, enjoyable, interesting, and hangs with you for days after you turn the last page.
Harry Dresden, wizard-for-hire, has a problem: werewolves are killing people every full moon. It'd be an easy case to solve if it was just a case of a random person who turned into a wolf when the moon did its thing, but knowing Harry it's never that simple.
Soon he finds himself embroiled in a huge conspiracy/cover-up case between the local crime bosses and the FBI, leaving a trail of dead civilians in their wake.
The overall scope of the plot was very intriguing. Butcher did his homework on werewolf lore and put it into the story with a well-defined set of rules for each type of werewolf (lycanthropes, hexenwulves, etc). You had street gangs, mafiosi, federal agents and rich fat cats who all turned into different kinds of wolves for different reasons. You had good guys doing bad things for misguided reasons, and bad guys doing misguided things for personal reasons, while Harry is doing reckless things for the right reasons and getting constantly screwed.
I'd been warned that this was the most lackluster of all the Dresden novels. If that's the case, then the rest of the series will be mind-blowingly awesome. I really liked Fool Moon and the way it used the elements at its disposal. Jim Butcher hit the mark with this one dead-on.
Caveats: this book had remarkably more profanity than the first one, as well as its fair share of F-bombs. Sexual content present as well. Readers 18 and up.
Sheesh! I told Graham Chops about Dresden Files ages ago, but like the teacher in the Charlie Brown comics, all kids ever hear is blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, with an occasional whah whah throw in. But to give Porter the nod for introducing him to this author, well Mom Chops is going to get all kinds of distance out of that faux pas!! Me thinks he forgot who lent him the DVD collection she got like THREE years ago. Ahhh! This too shall pass, but I'm going to have fun with it whilst it passes ever so sloooooooowly. Mwahahahahaha!
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