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Skin Game
Dresden Files #15
Jim Butcher

ROC
March 3, 2015 / ISBN 978-0451470041
Urban Fantasy

Reviewed by Jan Fields

 

It's almost difficult to believe that a character can remain fresh and compelling after fifteen novels, but somehow Harry Dresden manages to fascinate every time he appears on the page. In Skin Game, Dresden is still Mab's winter knight, and he's been sent on another assignment he hates. This time, he must help the much-hated Nicodemus Archleone retrieve something from the most secure location in any world. The vault belongs to Hades, and no one is expected to come out of this one alive - but Harry never fails to turn an expectations on its head. The book is a roller coaster of scary monsters, death traps and things that blow up - more than enough to keep you turning pages with a mixture of desperate desire to know how it ends and sadness that it'll ever end at all. As always, Harry is a nice mix of angst and snark, and there's a twist ending that is a bit of a reach stylistically, but I still found it fun. For fans of the Dresden Files, this one is definitely a keeper and leaves us eager for more.

Reviewed 2015
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