Grave Peril (The Dresden Files, Book 3)
by Jim Butcher
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Author: Jim ButcherEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-11-04
ISBN: 0451462343
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Roc Hardcover
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Book Review: Dresden grows up
Summary: 5 Stars
While Fool Moon made me a full-fledged Dresden fan, it was not until I read Grave Peril for the first time that I became a lifetime fan. For as long as Jim Butcher writes Dresden Files books, I will be reading.
Grave Peril, to me, is The Dresden Files equivalent of Buffy's Second Season. Both characters are forced to do a lot of growing up in a very short period of time, both are forced to give up someone very dear and both characters finish their journeys (temporarily) very much lost.
Being contemporary Urban Fantasies, I find there is a lot of similarities between Joss Whedon's Buffy/Angelverse and The Dresden Files. To me they are both quite excellent and it is enjoyable to see how much they have in common.
Aside from that, Grave Peril introduces two very important characters into the Files for the first time, and they are two of the best characters in the series:
Michael Carpenter is a Knight of the Cross/Sword, one of Three men chosen to wield swords given to them by The Archangel Michael, each containing a Nail from the Crucifixion in their hilts. We learn that Michael has actually been an ally of Harry's for many years now, and he is working with him to counter the most recent supernatural threat.
Thomas Raith is an Incubus of the White Court of Vampires, the youngest and lowest ranking member of the House Raith. Harry meets him for the first time in this book and he really doesn't know what is going on with him yet.
Both become important supporting characters in Dresden's future adventures, and they have very stirring introductions in Grave Peril.
What is so good about Grave Peril, and what makes me compare it to Buffy's second season, is that for the first time there are consequences. Both characters' lives are completely changed as a consequence of their actions, even nobles ones. One such consequence comes in the form of Bianca, the Vampire Madame Harry offended in Storm Front. Thanks to that encounter Bianca has it in for Harry.
Add to that a Sorcerer who Harry, Michael and Murphy's SI unit took out a couple months before the book who is back looking for revenge, an increasingly violent Ghost problem and Harry gets a healthy dose of consequence dumped on his seemingly ever crowded lap.
And it is not just taking a beating fighting the Big Bad this time, both characters are hit hard in their personal lives. Huge relationship changing events that rip their hearts out and leave them lost and alone, isolated.
I really like Grave Peril, in many ways it is the framework for how the later books would go. It ups the stakes on a personal level for Harry and in the overall Dresdenverse. Because even when you save the day and beat the bad guy, there are consequences, there is fallout, and Harry is not going to find them very pleasant.
346 HC pages. 5 out of 5 stars
Summary of Grave Peril (The Dresden Files, Book 3)
Now in hardcover from the New York Times bestselling author of The Dresden Files.Harry Dresden?s faced some pretty terrifying foes during his career. Giant scorpions. Oversexed vampires. Psychotic werewolves. All par for the course for Chicago?s only professional wizard.
But in all of Harry?s years of supernatural sleuthing, he?s never faced anything like this: the spirit world?s gone postal. All over Chicago, ghosts are causing trouble?and not just of the door-slamming, ?boo?- shouting variety. These ghosts are tormented, violent, and deadly.
Someone?or something?is stirring them up to wreak unearthly havoc. But why? And why do so many of the victims have ties to Harry? If Harry doesn?t figure it out soon, he could wind up a ghost himself.
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