Small Favour / Jim Butcher

Small Favour

(category: fantasy)
book 10 of The Dresden Files by

Jim Butcher

published by Orbit in 2008, read in February 2010

Agamedes' rating: 7 out of 10

Agamedes' opinion:

A lot of fun, with a wizard and all sorts of mythological magic wielders battling it out in modern-day Chicago. Yes, there is a lot of brutal violence -- but it takes a lot of hitting (and gouging and cutting and burning) to keep a good monster down. In fact... most of the main monsters seem to survive anything that is thrown at them. Which is a bit annoying: This is the tenth book of The Dresden Files and there are a lot of "well known" characters. On the other hand... it is easy to read by itself, and makes me want to read earlier books -- not to find out who is who but because I enjoyed this one. I also like to read a book where the hero is incorruptible and where even the worst of the baddies is approachable... albeit carefully! I also enjoyed the humorous / sarcastic insults by the hero, though there could, perhaps, have been less references by that same hero to his propensity to make humorous / sarcastic comments to the baddies...