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Harry Dresden is the only wizard in the Chicago phone book and consults for the police department on those so-called unusual' cases. But there's no love lost between Harry and the White Council of Wizards, who find him brash and undisciplined. Yet now the vampire wars have thinned the ranks of wizards, the White Council needs Harry, like it or not. He's drafted as a Warden, and assigned to look into rumours of black magic in the Windy City. And, if that isn't enough, another problem arrives for Harry in the form of the tattooed and pierced daughter of an old friend, all grown-up and already in trouble. Her boyfriend was the only one in the room when an old man was attacked, but in spite of this, he insists he didn't do it. What looks like a supernatural assault straight out of a horror film turns out to be well, something quite close to that, as Harry discovers that malevolent entities that feed on fear are loose in Chicago. All in a day's work for a wizard, his faithful dog, and a talking skull named Bob
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40 of 42 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
First, if you've never read a Dresden File novel and you're contemplating buying Proven Guilty then don't. This is not a series you can simply dip into at any point and pick up the story so far. Over the previous seven books (this is number eight) Jim Butcher has created a fully realised, deeply detailed world with a wealth of back-story. Trying to follow the events of this or any of the other Dresden Files without knowledge of everything that has gone before will be almost impossible. You will also miss out on some hugely entertaining stories and some wonderful character development. Go and read Storm Front, the first in the series, and work through the rest in order until you reach this latest adventure. You will not regret it.....
....because Proven Guilty is yet another excellent trip into the world of Harry Dresden and friends. As this series progresses and matures I am enjoying it more and more. The wealth of carefully crafted back story and characterisation lends this book, like Dead Beat before it, great depth. You feel fully immersed in the world Butcher has created, and its a wonderfully colourful and textured place to visit. Its a shame when you have to leave.
Its not as if Butcher is resting on his laurels though. Like the books the precede it Proven Guilty has its own identity. There is less of the bombast or large scale action of Dead Beat, and not as much outright horror as some of the other novels. This is very much a book aimed at progressing characters, relationships and wider plot elements. At times this makes it feel like something of a transitionary effort; intended to get wider events from point A to point B as quickly and with as little fuss as possible, but even if that is the case it does it well and entertainingly. The central plot, dealing with black magic & teenage rebellion, may be slight compared to Dead Beat for example (there's no world saving for Harry to do this time) but its engaging. It also carries far greater significance than it apparently slight and intensely personal nature at first implies.
Something that the book as a whole also does. As it unfolds Proven Guilty becomes a chance for Butcher to pick up on a lot of the plot elements he has put in place over the past seven novels. Seemingly disparate elements, some of them going right back to the earliest days of the series and almost forgotten now, are suddenly brought up and given far greater significance as a result of seemingly low key events during the course of the book. Pieces of a larger and hitherto unseen jigsaw, including the war between vapires and wizards and the politics of Faerie, begin to slot into place, until by the end a whole new backstory has emerged that will give Harry's adventures a entirely new spin.
Harry himself also undergoes some significant character development during the course of the book, as do some of the other key players in his world. He also finds time to 'resolve' some critical personal issues as well as developing some completely new and interesting ones.
So overall Proven Guilty may not have th glorious action set pieces to rival some of the earlier Dresden Books and may appear far more low key, but for fans of the series it is revealing, exciting and fascinating. It also sets up a protentially great new phase in Harry's adventures and one I can't wait to experience.
....because Proven Guilty is yet another excellent trip into the world of Harry Dresden and friends. As this series progresses and matures I am enjoying it more and more. The wealth of carefully crafted back story and characterisation lends this book, like Dead Beat before it, great depth. You feel fully immersed in the world Butcher has created, and its a wonderfully colourful and textured place to visit. Its a shame when you have to leave.
Its not as if Butcher is resting on his laurels though. Like the books the precede it Proven Guilty has its own identity. There is less of the bombast or large scale action of Dead Beat, and not as much outright horror as some of the other novels. This is very much a book aimed at progressing characters, relationships and wider plot elements. At times this makes it feel like something of a transitionary effort; intended to get wider events from point A to point B as quickly and with as little fuss as possible, but even if that is the case it does it well and entertainingly. The central plot, dealing with black magic & teenage rebellion, may be slight compared to Dead Beat for example (there's no world saving for Harry to do this time) but its engaging. It also carries far greater significance than it apparently slight and intensely personal nature at first implies.
Something that the book as a whole also does. As it unfolds Proven Guilty becomes a chance for Butcher to pick up on a lot of the plot elements he has put in place over the past seven novels. Seemingly disparate elements, some of them going right back to the earliest days of the series and almost forgotten now, are suddenly brought up and given far greater significance as a result of seemingly low key events during the course of the book. Pieces of a larger and hitherto unseen jigsaw, including the war between vapires and wizards and the politics of Faerie, begin to slot into place, until by the end a whole new backstory has emerged that will give Harry's adventures a entirely new spin.
Harry himself also undergoes some significant character development during the course of the book, as do some of the other key players in his world. He also finds time to 'resolve' some critical personal issues as well as developing some completely new and interesting ones.
So overall Proven Guilty may not have th glorious action set pieces to rival some of the earlier Dresden Books and may appear far more low key, but for fans of the series it is revealing, exciting and fascinating. It also sets up a protentially great new phase in Harry's adventures and one I can't wait to experience.
24 of 28 people found the following review helpful
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In this one, Harry is warned by the gatekeeper that there is black magic in Harry's neighbourhood... or their will be very soon. Messing around with time is forbidden, but that never really bothered the gatekeeper, so Harry takes the warning seriously.
The war with the vampires is getting serious now with no quarter asked or given. The white council, of which Harry is now a member, gives their newest warden (Harry) a job to do. He must find out why the summer and winter courts are not helping the council against the vampires. They need the help badly. The problem is, every time Harry gets involved with the never never and its politics, he ends up over his head and in debt to someone too powerful to live with. Literally!
He asks help from his friends the summer knight and summer lady, but they are under a geas not to help directly. So who walks into the bar and into their meeting? The winter lady!! None other than the wife of the winter knight, the man Harry destroyed in recent times and the opposite to his friend the summer knight. Things go from bad to worse when his best friend's daughter is kidnapped and taken to the winter court, leaving Harry no choice but to mount a rescue. Things come to a climax in the Winter Queen's stronghold, where he slaps Queen Mab in the face (not literally thank god) by unleashing summer magic at the very heart of her domain. To top it all, the girl he is looking to save might be the very black magic user he is oath bound to kill!!
A must read for all Dresden fans.
The war with the vampires is getting serious now with no quarter asked or given. The white council, of which Harry is now a member, gives their newest warden (Harry) a job to do. He must find out why the summer and winter courts are not helping the council against the vampires. They need the help badly. The problem is, every time Harry gets involved with the never never and its politics, he ends up over his head and in debt to someone too powerful to live with. Literally!
He asks help from his friends the summer knight and summer lady, but they are under a geas not to help directly. So who walks into the bar and into their meeting? The winter lady!! None other than the wife of the winter knight, the man Harry destroyed in recent times and the opposite to his friend the summer knight. Things go from bad to worse when his best friend's daughter is kidnapped and taken to the winter court, leaving Harry no choice but to mount a rescue. Things come to a climax in the Winter Queen's stronghold, where he slaps Queen Mab in the face (not literally thank god) by unleashing summer magic at the very heart of her domain. To top it all, the girl he is looking to save might be the very black magic user he is oath bound to kill!!
A must read for all Dresden fans.
Format:Kindle Edition
I know the world of Dresden so was looking forward to book 8. I found it hard going to finish it. so much talking and the action scenes were quite tedious as they were very similar. I hated the characters of Charity and Molly, not believable as real living human beings, charity the embodiment of motherhood and Molly a angst ridden teenager with so many issues! I found the book to be far too long with Dresden repeating himself a lot and too much exposition that a quick explanation from the narrator to move things along would have done. Hopefully the next one will be better.
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A page-turner of a Dresden
Proven Guilty is a hard book to review.For someone having read only a handful of the Dresden books, a detailed review of Proven Guiltywould be very spoilerific in that it would... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Leo Elijah Cristea
Good installment
This is a good installment in the series and deals with Molly becoming Harry's apprentice, of course there is plenty more going on but it isn't the best story in the set.
Published 4 months ago by R. Burn-smith
Harry reaches a crossroads
Proven Guilty is the eight book in the Dresden series, so I'm going to assume that if you are reading this you've read the previous seven. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Steve (Walker of Worlds)
One of several
This book forms part of an 11 book (thus far) on-going series, read in order for the best results, wherein the main characters are well rounded, the plots, while slightly... Read more
Published on 30 Oct 2009 by Dr. Nicol J. Murray
There's ups and downs
I'm a bit let down by this book in the series. Sure, we are thrown immediately into the thick of action, followed on the heels by mystery. That's a good thing in my opinion. Read more
Published on 11 Sep 2009 by Wizarding Fan
Harry keeps going from strength to strength
Magicians in the modern world are really becoming the vogue currently and whilst a number of them follow trends this is one of the originals and the best. Read more
Published on 18 Sep 2007 by Gareth Wilson - Falcata Times Blog
As bad as Fool Moon
I read this feeling as though I'd missed a book somewhere along the line. Butcher casually deals with a number of things that happened off-page, which turn out to have a certain... Read more
Published on 26 Jun 2007 by quippe
Excellent as always
First, if you've never read a Dresden File novel and you're contemplating buying Proven Guilty then don't. Read more
Published on 19 Mar 2007 by C. Green
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