Battle Ground (Mini-Review)

Battle Ground is the seventeenth book in Jim Butcher's Dresden Files series. The Titan Ethniu's plan to wage war against humanity comes to fruition and Chicago is her first target. Everyone must band together to defend their city whether they be magical or non-magical. Harry Dresden has to battle impossible odds in an attempt to lock Ethniu away in Demonreach. No matter the outcome: Chicago will never be the same.

Peace Talks (Mini-Review)

Peace Talks is the sixteenth book in Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files series. In this book Harry Dresden has impossible goals he is forced to achieve. When Thomas Raith attempts to assassinate an important figure, Harry is forced to figure out a way to save his half-brother. Queen Mab tells him that she is lending his services to Lara Raith. Finally, he is tasked by the White Council to keep the peace at the peace talks.

Skin Game (Mini-Review)

Skin Game is the fifteenth book in the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher. In it Harry Dresden is ordered by Queen Mab to work with Nicodemus in order to pay off a debt. But working with an evil man like Nicodemus is never what it appears. And Mab is never honest about her true intentions. With three days until he dies, Harry must figure out what's really going on which probably isn't as simple as robbing a vault.

Cold Days (Mini-Review)

Cold Days is the fourteenth book in Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files. Harry Dresden's first order as the new Winter Knight is to kill the Winter Lady. But why would Queen Mab want to kill Maeve? Has Mab gone mad? Harry's job is made even harder when he must protect Demonreach from danger.

Ghost Story (Mini-Review)

Ghost Story is the thirteenth book in Jim Butcher's the Dresden Files series. This book picks up shortly after the previous one where Harry Dresden is going to whatever lies after death. But whatever that is will have to wait as he takes on the task of finding out the identity of his killer.

Changes (Mini-Review)

Changes is the twelfth book in Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files series. Harry Dresden is shocked to find out that he had a child with Susan Rodriquez. He is then horrified to learn that his daughter has been captured by the vampires of the Red Court. So he has no other choice than to rescue her. But what cost will Harry end up paying?

Turn Coat (Mini-Review)

Turn Coat is the eleventh book in The Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher. In this book Harry Dresden is shocked when a dying Warden Donald Morgan comes to him for help. As the mystery deepens, Harry gets a much more personal reason to help clear Morgan's name: if Morgan's name isn't cleared then both Harry and Molly Carpenter's lives are at stake.

Small Favor (Mini-Review)

Small Favor is the tenth book in The Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher. In this entry Queen Mab orders Harry Dresden to find out what happened to Johnny Marcone. What starts out as a simple favor for the faerie queen soon gets much more complicated when Harry runs into the Denarians. Will Harry be able to find Marcone while preventing the end of humanity as we know it?

White Night (Mini-Review)

White Night is the ninth book in Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files series. In this entry Karrin Murphy calls Harry Dresden in to look at a murder that looks suspiciously like something Thomas Raith, Harry's half-brother and White Court vampire, would do. But Harry is insistent that Thomas isn't the killer and seeks to prove his half-brother's innocence.

Proven Guilty (Mini-Review)

Proven Guilty is the eighth book in Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files series. In this entry Harry Dresden is warned of black magic occurring in Chicago. The hard task of tracking down a black magic user is made even harder when Harry must save congoers of a horror convention from their worst fears. Yep, some dark creatures are able to turn into what a person fears the most. As if that isn't hard enough, Harry must also reconcile Molly Carpenter with her mother.

Dead Beat (Mini-Review)

Dead Beat is the seventh book in Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files series. This entry follows Harry Dresden who is told by the very much alive Mavra to find the Word of Kemmler. Making this task all the harder is the fact Harry doesn't know what the Word of Kemmler is and necromancers have arrived in Chicago that are very interested in the Word of Kemmler.

Blood Rites (Mini-Review)

Blood Rites is the sixth book in Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files series. Thomas Raith asks Harry Dresden for help. An adult film director is finding keeping the women around him alive extremely hard. Harry must discover what is going on in order to stop the killings. What starts out as a simple enough job turns into a hectic mess involving vampire politics and revelations about Harry's family.

Death Masks (Mini-Review)

In Death Masks, the fifth installment of Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files series, Harry Dresden has found business to be much better than before. One could even say things have become comfortable for him. That is about to change. After appearing on a talk show to get information from a sometimes reliable source, he finds himself with more trouble than he can deal with. Not only does he have to duel a vampire and cope with how the return of Susan Rodriguez affects their relationship. He also needs to find the Shroud of Turin before fallen angels can use it to their own ends.

Summer Knight (Mini-Review)

Susan Rodriguez left Chicago as she was a vampire and her feelings for Harry Dresden made her too confused. Ever since she left Harry has been in a downward spiral and his mind is focused only on finding a cure to make his girlfriend human once again. But his mind is stable enough to know making a deal with a faerie is not something a sane person does. However, Harry finds himself having to find who killed the Summer Knight for Queen Mab because if he doesn't the White Council will hand him over to the vampires as a peace offering.

Grave Peril (Mini-Review)

The ghosts in Chicago are being very active up to the point Harry Dresden enlists Micheal Carpenter to help him fight them. Harry soon finds out that someone is stirring up the ghosts for a reason. If he doesn't find out who is doing so and why, himself and all those he cares about could die.

Fool Moon (Mini-Review)

There has been a grizzly series of murders but finding the killers is the least of Harry Dresden's worries. His frayed friendship with Karrin Murphy causes her to believe he is involved with the murders. So while trying to bring the killers to justice, Harry must also avoid the law.

Storm Front (Mini-Review)

In this first novel of the series: Harry Dresden is the only professional wizard in Chicago. As he needs the money, he ends up agreeing to solve the mystery of a woman's missing husband. At the same time he tries to help the police to figure out who is behind a grizzly murder. If he plans to survive the week, he needs to solve both cases.

Dresden, His Subconscious, and Me

 The Dresden Files, by Jim Butcher, is an awesome series. You follow the adventures of Harry Dresden, a wizard detective, who has a lot of sass. And who doesn't love some sass? Not anyone I'd want to be around, that's for sure.

There are some ways in which I admire Harry Dresden and other ways I connect with him. Today I'll be talking about how I connect to him via his subconscious.

The Dresden Files: Skin Game (Jim Butcher)

Title: Skin Game

Series: The Dresden Files

Author: Jim Butcher

Released: 2014

Shipping Confessions: Harry Dresden/Karrin Murphy (The Dresden Files)

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I am a fan of The Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher. I have never seen the short-lived tv show and I don't really feel a need to see it. I've heard from others how it strays from the series and I feel I'll have the same reactions to it that I did for the Animorphs series. Which isn't something I need to experience again anytime soon.

The Dresden Files follows the adventures of Harry Dresden who is a wizard. The series is very interesting and I'd highly suggest it for those who like fantasy/mystery series. And if you're already a fan of the series: feel free to fangirl with me!

Throughout the series Harry Dresden and Karrin Murphy seem to be an almost couple. They always seem to hover around the issue with Cold Days being the first instance where they really talk about their feelings for each other.

I hadn't finished Cold Days when I decided to talk about this couple and technically they're not together so I'm counting this as non-canon enough for this series.

Harry Dresden is a wise-ass even when he faces death. That's a trait that I really admire in him. He's able to look death in the face, be scared, and is ready with a quip.

Harry is very powerful and can think through situations before the shit hits the fan. That's not to say he doesn't make mistakes or that his emotions don't get the better of him. But he is usually able to contain the trouble and figure stuff out by the end of each book.

Harry doesn't really have a good record with the ladies. The mother of his child he had to kill due to something really bad happening and now he's afraid to talk to his daughter. He's afraid to talk to his daughter because she was there when he killed her mother.

Of course Bob helps Harry out a lot of the time, but that genius deserves a blog post of his own.

Karrin Murphy is a former police officer who helps Harry in his adventures. She is a strong woman character and it's easy to see why Harry likes her.

Karrin is athletic. She can kick serious ass in one on one combat. Her ability to kick ass like that has been remarked on more than once in the series. She is also good while using a gun and her ability to use one is about as amazing as her ability to take people on one on one.

Finally, she is able to wield Fidelacchius which is one of the three swords made from the nails used to crucify Christ. Fidelacchius is the sword of faith. Besides that sword she also has possession/guardianship over Amoracchius.

Harry and Karrin work very well as both a team and a couple. They have worked together so often that they know each other very well and are also loyal to each other. It's always good when fighting to have someone you know will have your back. To say they've been in a few life and death situations is an understatement. In Cold Days, when they finally kissed, it was at a point when Harry decided to since he didn't want to die without doing something with Karrin.

Even in the first book there seemed to be something budding. As the series went on that something just seemed to increase. It got to the point of them needing to be a couple or else I'd lose my shit (and, yes, I lost my shit at the end of Cold Days since they decided to just be friends for the time being).

Harry is very good with magic while Karrin can back him up with more mundane things like guns and doing one on one fights. They are both smart people and they both do well under pressure.

There are just so many moments between the two where you go 'yeah, they belong with each other so why the hell aren't they already'. Both Harry and Karrin have had other relationships. This doesn't bother me since we all go through a few relationships before ending up with 'the one' (aka the one we are with until death or whatever you want to call them).

I hope in the next book they FINALLY get a solid relationship or else you'll hear me complaining for a long time.

What will I talk about in the next Shipping Confessions? Next Shipping Confessions will be a special one and I will be breaking a rule to talk about something that has been bothering me for some time. I kind of covered it in a former Shipping Confessions but I'd like a whole one to state my full feelings about the issue at hand.

I will be talking about a human and a human cursed with a very angry side from The Incredible Hulk (2008).

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