Hit men using Harry for target practice The missing Shroud of Turin - and the possible involvement of Chicago's most feared mob boss. Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden has had a rough couple of weeks. As the only openly practicing professional wizard in the Chicago area, he has squared off against a multitude of supernatural bad guys.
Harry has won the day against demons, poltergeists, sorcerers, trolls, vampires, werewolves, and even an evil faerie godmother. You might think nothing could spook him.
You would be wrong. Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden is Chicago's only openly practicing wizard. He is also dead broke. His vast knowledge and magical skills are unfortunately matched by his talent for making powerful enemies and alienating friends. With little more than his integrity left, he accepts an offer of work from Lt.
He wants to redeem himself in Murphy's eyes and make enough money to quiet his rumbling stomach. Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, is about to have a very bad day. Usually, it's something awful. This time, it's worse than that. Mab's involved Harry in a smash-and-grab heist run by one of his most despised enemies, to recover the literal Holy Grail from the vaults of the greatest treasure horde in the world - which belongs to the one and only Hades, Lord of the Underworld.
Dresden's always been tricky, but he's going to have to up his backstabbing game to survive this mess - assuming his own allies don't end up killing him before his enemies get the chance This is the final book in the Dresden Files so far and is a reread, hoping that rumours of the next book coming this year are true.
Harry faces overwhelming odds as he is loaned out by Mab to one of his arch enemies to assist in the heist of a valuable artifact. Good story telling. James Marsters does a super job narrating, as usual. Jim butcher has done it again. I've blitzed through 7gh all 15 audio books in the main series this past month and love them all. James Marsters gives a brilliant performance of a beautifully written story. Everyone should experience this!
This was as expected awesome. As always Jim Butcher is a genius and brings the reader to a remarkable world and story. James Master does a great performance as usual and is well suited to the story.
A must listen book :. I love the Dresden files and the narration is as excellent as always. If you could sum up Skin Game in three words, what would they be? Non stop action! What did you like best about this story? One of the best Dresden Files books in the series. Liked how it brings back so many characters from previous books and intertwines them in ways I didn't see coming.
He nailed Dresden again! Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting? Hell's Bells man! Any additional comments? Keep them coming! Among the highest. Who was your favorite character and why? At this point? All of them really. That's pretty much what I did.
Jim Butcher and James Marsters created something wonderful, again. Jim Butcher delivers another fantastic Dresden file. This book completes brings a couple of long story arcs to a satisfying and in some cases surprising close, only to throw a few more spanners in the works and leave us eagerly anticipating the next chapter.
There is some excellent character development with moments to both cringe and cheer for our favourite good guys. Plus plenty of Dresden wit and very up to date pop culture references to keep us amused, one in particular almost groan worthy but both hilarious and uplifting at the same time. As always five stars for James Masters narration.
Flawless character definition, comedic timing and every emotion where it should be. The only flaw is the time we will now have to wait for the story to continue. This time he is called upon by Queen Mab to assist in breaking into the most heavily fortified vault in existence: the personal vault of Hades, Lord of the Underworld. The story starts slower than is usual for the series, with a lot of character introductions and planning of the heist. Harry is as wise-cracking in his smartassery as always and we even see the return of an old friend to watch his back.
Marsters is back to narrate again and does a steller job as always. He is hands down one of the best in the business and his personality lends every character a lot of weight. But he really shines when voicing Dresden. His voice has just the right tone to convey every nuance of the character. Now the arduous wait for the next novel begins…. That was tough book. Probably the best book in the Dresden Files. Harry Dresden had no good choices left. He executed the woman he loved knowing that, through this act, he would destroy thousands of people fairly nasty vampires for the most part in an instant.
He had good reasons. He saved good people. But all actions have consequences. I assumed, at the end of "Changes" that one of the consequences was no more Harry Dresden. I should have remembered, long-term Stephen King fan that I am, that sometimes they come back. Dresden came back as a literal shadow of his former self in "Ghost Story" and then all the way back in "Cold Days" when he transformed fully into "The Winter Knight", a role that he'd previously protected people from.
I started to dislike Dresden in those two books. I admired Jim Butcher for following through on the storyline and the character progression, not just of Dresden but of his friends and his enemies. Dresden's actions in "Changes" had consequences for them all. That didn't prevent me from both disliking the broken Harry Dresden I was being presented with and from mourning the Harry we all used to have: the wizard for hire.
Like many of the people around him, I almost walked away from Harry Dresden at the end of "Cold Days". Then, eighteen months later, "Skin Game" came out and I decided to give it at try as an audiobook. Good decision. Dresden is back. Or at least, he's moving in the right direction. In "Skin Game" Jim Butcher gives us the traditional heroic quest but with a twist: he turns the quest into a heist and heroes into villains, with Harry working with them. The quest format gives Harry some wonderful set-piece duels against various configurations of bad guys, all described with a vim and gusto that made me smile.
The plotting is truly Byzantine with constantly shifting perspectives on who the good guys are and what the bad guys want and how any of it is going to work out. Woven into this, sometimes a little heavy-handedly seriously - let's have a discussion on whether Harry is a monster or not which he over-hears because no one notices that he's no longer unconscious? The usual themes on the possibility of redemption, the need for hope, the opportunity for corruption and the reality of loss are all there.
They're also a little more grown-up and a lot darker than they used to be. At one point Dresden says something like: "I used to think I knew a lot about many things but then I got older and I realized that, most of the time, I haven't got a clue about what's going on. The pace is fairly rapid, accelerating nicely towards the end without becoming hurried.
The characters continue to develop in believable ways. The good may win a round or two but the fight doesn't stop. And there are always those decisions to make. The ones with consequences attached. This time, Harry makes some interesting ones: to start to forgive himself, to allow himself to spend time with his daughter, to let his next steps be guided by hope for the future rather than a need to survive the present.
He's still not the man he was, but I think there's hope for him yet. I've rejoined Team Dresden. I'll probably also stick the audiobook format. Skin Game Audiobook Free. Harry Dresden has had a bumpy ride of it up until now, as well as the books so far have had their ups as well as downs; lots of fist-in-the-air minutes juxtaposed with some cringe-worthy scenes of required, unpleasant dialogue.
He is much less mopey regarding being the Winter season Knight, or at the very least much less singing about it, as well as he is equally as affably awkward around attractive women as he was at the begin of the collection.
Nonetheless, this absence of character advancement was in fact a bonus, due to the fact that it made him much more like the Dresden of old, the young renegade wizard that really did not bring the weight of the globe on his shoulders. Harry has actually been a pretty awful good friend for the past couple books, and that karmic justice is reaching him now. He can not maintain the lone-wolf guard regular forever, and Butcher brings several of these concerns to the fore here.
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