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Harry Dresden has a problem\u2026and if I told you what it was, you\u2019d have to kill me.<\/p>\n

Having revisited the first eleven novels in Jim Butcher\u2019s Dresden Files<\/a>, I grabbed the twelfth, Changes<\/em>, eager to see if that last chapter was as disturbing as I\u2019d been warned.<\/p>\n

<\/a> $\"\"$ <\/p>\n

Now, here\u2019s the problem. I want to tell you all about this book. I want to explain what\u2019s going on. There are many details to linger over. But I don\u2019t do spoilers. And in a long-running series like this, with long-running story arcs, spoilers are all over the place. But let me try.<\/p>\n

Harry Dresden discovers that unless he acts, an innocent person dear to him is going to be killed and the world as he knows it might come to an end. But if he acts to prevent it, his chances of survival are nil.<\/p>\n

There, was that so hard? Of course, I could say the same of many of the books in the series. The challenge here is a big one though: he has to go beard the Red Court of Vampires\u2014pretty much all of them\u2014in their Latin American stronghold. And though Harry\u2019s pretty tough, the Red King hasn\u2019t survived since prehistoric times by being a push-over.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll simply add that I enjoyed the book very much; it grabbed me from the very first paragraph, and didn\u2019t let go; and that the twist in the last chapter didn\u2019t disturb me nearly as much as I had feared, or in the way that I had feared. Mind you, I was still calling Jim Butcher rude names.<\/p>\n

All in all, Changes<\/i> might be the best installment in the Dresden files to date. It\u2019s certainly as good as its predecessors.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve already started its successor, Ghost Story<\/em>, and so far it hasn\u2019t grabbed me. But we\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"