![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Proven Guilty by Jim Butcher
Jun. 10th, 2007 07:55 pmThe Blurb On The Back:
Faeries.
Black magic.
And a genuine fallen angel living inside your head.
It never rains but it pours.
Harry Dresden is the only wizard in the Chicago phone book. He consults for the police department on 'unusual' cases, and has even appeared on talk shows. And this makes him no friends on the White Council of Wizards, who find Harry brash and undisciplined. However, now that vampire wars have thinned the ranks of wizards, they need him, and he's assigned to investigate rumours of black magic.
Harry's other problem is an old friend's daughter, all grown-up and already in trouble. Her boyfriend insists he's innocent of what looks like a supernatural assault straight out of a horror film. This impression turns out to be ... well, pretty accurate, as Harry discovers malevolent entitites feeding on fear in Chicago. All in a day's work for a wizard, his faithful dog, and a talking skull named Bob ...
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Not very good. This is a rushed and botched attempt to give the reader the information needed for the next book in the arc, i.e. it's filler - and not particularly entertaining filler at that - cliche packed and ripe with stereotypes. Avoid.
Black magic.
And a genuine fallen angel living inside your head.
It never rains but it pours.
Harry Dresden is the only wizard in the Chicago phone book. He consults for the police department on 'unusual' cases, and has even appeared on talk shows. And this makes him no friends on the White Council of Wizards, who find Harry brash and undisciplined. However, now that vampire wars have thinned the ranks of wizards, they need him, and he's assigned to investigate rumours of black magic.
Harry's other problem is an old friend's daughter, all grown-up and already in trouble. Her boyfriend insists he's innocent of what looks like a supernatural assault straight out of a horror film. This impression turns out to be ... well, pretty accurate, as Harry discovers malevolent entitites feeding on fear in Chicago. All in a day's work for a wizard, his faithful dog, and a talking skull named Bob ...
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Not very good. This is a rushed and botched attempt to give the reader the information needed for the next book in the arc, i.e. it's filler - and not particularly entertaining filler at that - cliche packed and ripe with stereotypes. Avoid.
