When I realized wizards and PIs were the same character, it became real easy.” Whether they are plunging into the underworld of Chicago’s criminal scene or plunging into the literal underworld like in LOTR, they’re both people who go to dark places and are a threat, not necessarily because of what they can do, but mostly because of what they know. “They perform the same role they just have a different hat on. “I realized wizards and private eyes do the exact same things,” Butcher told Strand Magazine. The world’s only “consulting wizard,” he faces off against a variety of beings-including spirits, vampires, werewolves, and other monsters-accepting cases from human and nonhuman clients, as well as the Chicago PD’s Special Investigation unit. The Dresden Files is a hard-boiled detective and urban fantasy series by Jim Butcher that follows private investigator and wizard Harry Dresden, who investigates supernatural cases in Chicago. The supernatural mixes with the mundane to produce a wonderful mix of "oh, of course that's how it would have to work" reactions as you go.“When I realized wizards and PIs were the same character, it became real easy.” Like the previous Dresden books, 'Ghost Story' is a rollicking read, the very definition of a good urban fantasy. There was no flash of white-hot flame that would have incinerated the apparition coming toward me. There was no current of equal parts giddy excitement, vibrating tension, and raw lightning flashing through my thoughts. There was no stirring of forces deep inside me.
Be that way." I lifted my right hand, drew in my will, and snarled, " Fuego."Īnd nothing - nothing at all - happened. I took a pair of quick steps back and said, "Fine. The creature came forward with another little touch of its toes to the earth, as mindless and graceful as a hungry jellyfish, and a hell of a lot creepier. And there are wraiths that can eat him, powerful sorcerers who can touch him, and some old enemies he's previously killed who might be looking for revenge.Īll he has is his wits, his memories and his will.
His apprentice has become almost as dangerous as their foes. His friends are battling the hordes of baddies that descended on Chicago once they heard it was no longer under Dresden's protection, and all he can do is watch. He can't enter homes without invitation, can't affect the physical world (much), and he has to be in a safe place come sunrise or he'll vanish in the morning sun.
As a newly arrived ghost, Dresden has no powers, no magic.
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