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Book review: Storm Front
Aug. 7th, 2007 09:51 pmToday's book review is Storm Front by Jim Butcher.
This is the first book of The Dresden Files, a fair sized and presumably still growing pile of novels and also, I understand, a TV show. It came out in 2000, so presumably everyone's already read it. It's sort of similar to the modern urban vampire books I talked about in my last review, except that instead of being about a werewolf or a vampire, it's about a wizard. Fairly nice world building; he presents magic as being able to do quite a lot without spoiling it by giving many silly details of how it works.
Lots of action and explosions; it would look great on a big screen as long as you had a big FX budget and spent it wisely. The characters are maybe a little thin, since there isn't much time between explosions to develop them, but they're convincing. Not too long on deep inner meaning, but enjoyable.
7 out of 10.
( plot summary, abridged )
This is the first book of The Dresden Files, a fair sized and presumably still growing pile of novels and also, I understand, a TV show. It came out in 2000, so presumably everyone's already read it. It's sort of similar to the modern urban vampire books I talked about in my last review, except that instead of being about a werewolf or a vampire, it's about a wizard. Fairly nice world building; he presents magic as being able to do quite a lot without spoiling it by giving many silly details of how it works.
Lots of action and explosions; it would look great on a big screen as long as you had a big FX budget and spent it wisely. The characters are maybe a little thin, since there isn't much time between explosions to develop them, but they're convincing. Not too long on deep inner meaning, but enjoyable.
7 out of 10.
( plot summary, abridged )