Blood Rites (The Dresden Files, Book 6)
by Jim Butcher
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Author: Jim ButcherEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-08-03
ISBN: 0451459873
Number of pages: 372
Publisher: Roc
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Book Review: Family Ties
Summary: 5 Stars
After the epic events of both Summer Knight and Death Masks, Jim Butcher switches to a more personal tale for his 6th Dresden Files book, Blood Rites. There is not the imminent threat of Faeriegeddon or Nicapocalypse, but the danger is still just as real and deadly to Harry as ever before.
Blood Rites is all about Family. Harry uncovers a great deal about his family, while adding to it along the way. We are given an in depth look into a slice of life in a family of Incubi/Succubi as we learn more about Thomas and his family. We also meet Murphy's family.
The book is seemingly structured to afford the reader a nice contrast between different families. Not just families of blood, but those formed in the trenches of life and solidified in the face of death. Butcher really details how Family can be found in the "lowest" of places, but even there it is every bit as warm and comforting as it is in the traditional sense.
The basic plot has Harry being tasked by Thomas to protect his actor friends making a porno movie. In return, Thomas finally tells Harry his big secret, why it is he has been helping Harry out over the last couple years.
Also, Mavra, the Black Court Vampire Sorceress, is back in town and gunning for Harry. Yet more fallout from Harry's actions at Bianca's masquerade ball in Grave Peril.
Of course in Harry's world things generally tend to go from bad to worse, so it is as Lord Raith, The White King, and his first in command, daughter Lara (Thomas' family), also show up with hidden agendas.
Kincaid and Ebenezar McCoy make welcome returns (along with stunning revelations about them both), and between the two of them Harry is forced to learn two of the hardest lessons of his life: one physical, one psychological.
While not as epic, or quite as good, as Death Masks, Blood Rites is very satisfying on a more personal level. Reading a 1st person series has its inherent limitations, but it is quite effective at making the reader really feel for Harry. Those limitations also work for the series, as revelations like those we uncover in Blood Rites are satisfying for the reader as much as Harry, because it is information we genuinely did not know. So it is both nice to fill in some gaps, as well as surprising when Butcher drops the big reveal.
I think Blood Rites also has the "sandwich" problem (that the later Proven Guilty also suffers from). That being that while it is very good, it is between two of the best books of the series and two of my personal favorites at that.
But by no means is Blood Rites anything less than spectacular, another just all out action thrill ride through the Dresdenverse, and it even has a dog!
4.5 out of 5 stars
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Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, takes on a case as a favor to his friend Thomas-a vampire of dubious integrity-only to become the prime suspect in a series of ghastly murders.Contemporary Books
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