In 'Ghost Story', part of 'The Dresden Files' series by Jim Butcher, Harry Dresden finds himself as a ghost in Chicago's dead zone, navigating a new existence without his body and magic. As he struggles to come to terms with his situation, he must find his murderer to save his friends from danger. The book is described as a departure from the usual formula of the series, focusing more on psychological angst and character development, with a quick pace and a great deal of mystery and suspense. Readers praise the complexity of the story, the character development, and the engaging dialogue that Butcher is known for.
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The eagerly awaited new novel in the #1 "New York Times" bestselling Dresden Files series.
When we last left the mighty wizard detective Harry Dresden, he wasn't doing well. In fact, he had been murdered by an unknown assassin.
But being dead doesn't stop him when his friends are in danger. Except now he has nobody, and no magic to help him. And there are also several dark spirits roaming the Chicago shadows who owe Harry some payback of their own.
To save his friends-and his own soul-Harry will have to pull off the ultimate trick without any magic...
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A good plot twist to mix up the series a bit, but damn can it be sad.
Wowee!
Really, wow. I mean, wow.
There isn't much to say that won't ruin the game for people who haven't gotten this far in the series yet, so we'll leave it with this:
This is one of those things that was about the journey, not the destination.
If the last book was the utter un-making of Harry Dresden, this book was his rebirth. We see him sort through the man he was - what shaped him, the decisions he made - and we see him choose what man he's going to be from here on out.
Great things are happening.
And when the hell do we get the next one?!
No sé en que pensaba la primera vez que leí el libro, pero esta segunda le ha sentado mucho mejor.
Si, es un cambio de ritmo muy grande con respecto al clímax del anterior, pero es necesario para que tanto el lector como el personaje procesen los golpes que da la historia hasta este punto.¨
Aprovecha para recuperar a un personaje del principio de la saga para dar otro punto de vista a Dresden, y también presenta el statu quo de una manera bastante buena, explicando cómo están los personajes secundarios y esbozando el por qué.
En resumen, es un buen libro para hacer el cambio de arco.
An excellent regrouping point in a series that would have fallen apart by now in any other hands. Butcher has put his hero into a lot of dangerous situations, and I was worried we were entering neverending apocalypse territory. This volume acts as a reboot, effectively summing up where Harry has been and how he will act in the future. The changes of the last volume (entitled, appropriately,
Changes) don't get a chance to fall out until this one. Here is where we see how the major events of the last book have changed Molly, Karrin, Thomas, and even Bob the skull.
Speaking of Thomas, every time I thought Butcher was leaving a thread dangling, he didn't. Shame on me for thinking this book was anything less than watertight.
It only misses five stars for a little bit of pop-culture reference overload. Just....a bit too much for me.
What can you read after
Ghost Story?
About the Author:
A martial arts enthusiast whose resume includes a long list of skills rendered obsolete at least two hundred years ago, Jim Butcher turned to writing as a career because anything else probably would have driven him insane. He lives with his wife, his son and a ferocious guard dog.
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