This book was recommended to me by both my mother and Brandon and it's the first in a seven book series. Because it came so highly recommended I decided to bump it to the top of the "need to read" pile. I'm very glad I did!

Harry Dresden is one of very few practicing Wizards in America. Look it up, he's in the phone book. :P And he isn't a fledgling starting off. This boy has seen some action and that's a very intriguing characteristic in a protaganist. It's nice to have someone with a fully developed backstory that we get to discover in parts throughout the books. Harry has demons in his past, and in his present. No, real demons. Gonna-rip-your-face-off demons and they won't stop coming until he's dead in a ditch. What's a wizard to do?

Butcher writes Dresden like he's an old friend. Even though this is Harry's first book he seems like a character that Butcher has spent half a dozen books developing. He comes across as incredibly, well human for lack of a better adjective. He doesn't always succeed, he has flaws, he doesn't always do things for the right reasons, but damn it he does the best he can. I can't wait to spend the next six books with Harry Dresden following him along on his supernatural life.

- Katie Wilks
November 3rd, 2005