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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780451458926
ISBN: 0451458923
Label: Roc
Manufacturer: Roc
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 371
Publication Date: September 03, 2002
Publisher: Roc
Release Date: September 03, 2002
Sales Rank: 2235
Studio: Roc
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Private detective/wizard-for-hire Harry Dresden is suckered into tangling in the affairs of Faerie, where the fate of the entire world-and his soul-are at stake.
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Rating:  - Knight's Alright! (4.5 Stars)
After a disappointing third outing, I was reluctant to pick up Butcher's 4th installment, but after letting it gather dust for 8 months I finally bit the bullet and started reading. I kept on reading, and found it hard to put Summer Knight down. Harry Dresden's character was spot-on, back to the hard-boiled gumshoe I knew from the first two books in the series. The plot is sprawling, but the pacing is taut. There's lots of humor, magic, and plot twists and far less phiolosophizing.
Bring on the next book!
Rating:  - Caught between a rock and a cold place
Summer Knight is a great addition to the Dresden files. Caught between the power struggles of Summer and Winter is not the place you want to be. Harry seems to have the knack at being in the wrong place at the wrong time. How he walks the fine line of being an unwilling champion of Winter and keeping on good terms with Summer at the same line is pure luck. Someone must be seriously after him to get him into these fixes or he has a guardian angel really looking out for him. Which is it? Well worth readying. I couldn't read it fast enough
Rating: - I don't believe in fairies!
After three books of battling evil wizards, ghosts, vampires and werewolves, Harry Dresden has a brand-new threat to the world on his plate -- warring faeries.
But worry not -- "Summer Knight" does not descend to drooling over benevolent Tolkienian elves or airy Victorian sprites. Instead, Jim Butcher crafts his fourth Dresden Files adventure-fantasy with plenty of solid action, intriguing characters, wizardly backstabbing, and a brewing supernatural war with plenty of unexpected twists and turns. It's clear that Butcher has hit his stride in this book, turning a merely solid urban fantasy series into one of the best.
It's been nine months since Harry's girlfriend was half-vampirized, and he's spent all that time trying to find a cure. Even worse, the White Council wizards are getting their butts kicked by the Red Court. Oh yes, and it's raining frogs.
The Council is hoping to hand him over to the Red Court in hopes of stopping the war, but he just accepted a case from Queen Mab -- find out who killed the Summer Knight, and stole his power. If he can solve the case, then the Council won't have him killed for peace. And as Harry prepares to do some major-league detective work, he finds an old friend is also involved -- Elaine, his first lover whom he thought he had killed as a teenager.
But Elaine isn't the most surprising thing about his new case -- he finds himself dealing with a little gang of half-fey, hostile wyldfae, pizza-loving sprites, ... Read More
Rating: - Far From the Enchanted Woods
As this book opens, Harry Dresden, Chicago's only wizard, is deeply depressed. For months, he has struggled to find a cure for his girlfriend Susan, bitten by a vampire at the end of book 3 of the Dresden Files. He's let everything else go, including paying the rent and taking a shower, but he's no closer to finding a solution. Little does he know that life is about to get worse. It starts with a rain of toads in Lake Meadow Park south of the Loop and then, to cap off a really crummy day, the new client in Harry's office is Mab, the Winter Queen of Faerie.
She wears a really hot power suit and moderately high heels.
Jim Butcher's the real wizard. From the White Council of Wizards meeting in the McCormick Convention Center to a deadly battle with a foul chlorofiend (plant monster) in the chain link enclosure at Walmart, Butcher enchants with the magical adventures of a wizard who, when the chips are down, taunts his foes with Roadrunner "beep, beep" noises.
Other than that, this is your typical noir, wise-cracking-detective-with-attitude murder mystery set in Chicago. Lots of violence and the occasional werewolf or changling assistant. This book is WICKED good fun.
Rating: - An amazing novel
Summer Knight is by far the best novel of the Dresden Files. Not only does it continue the overall plot of the series, but it has a fascinating and interesting plot within the novel. The war between the two fairy realms is interesting. I think this is the most creative work I have read by Jim Butcher. Gone are the hard to believe, out of nowhere scenarios. In this novel the actions are believable within the concepts of the novel. Bravo! I really enjoyed this novel. If you are a fan of the first three novels then I encourage you to read Summer Knight.
There has been a murder and a transfer of power is at hand. Whether the Winter or Summer fairies emerge victorious will determine if there is endless winter or endless summer on earth. It is my favorite novel of the series.
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