Turns out the ‘everyday’ world is full of strange and magical things – and most of them don’t play well with humans. Meet Harry Dresden, Chicago’s first (and only) Wizard P.I. However this time around, I cannot sensibly discuss this book without revealing a couple of doozies… If you ignore my advice and continue reading this review, you’ll be very, very sorry – because even the blurb contains major SPOILERS which I’m normally quite nifty at avoiding. It’s an excellent series and I envy your pleasure as you gradually get to know Harry and the characters that accompany him on his adventures. And rush off to the library to pick up the first book in the series, Storm Front, put up your feet and start reading. Come the thirteenth instalment, what do you do to up the action? Well… continue the jaw-dropper that confronted all Harry Dresden fans in Changes would be a good idea.įirstly, though – if you’re just dipping your big toe into the genre of Urban Fantasy and haven’t yet come across this series, then please stop reading. And that, is what makes this one of Butcher's most elegant tales to date.So… you’re Jim Butcher with a best-selling series on your hands in the shape of tough-yet-vulnerable PI wizard Harry Dresden, whose adventures just get more and more apocalyptic. However, the questions of right and wrong, good and evil, have never before been grayer as Harry makes life-altering decisions that will, no doubt, have lasting effects for the rest of the series.

His morals have been unbelievably steadfast as he's done exactly what he knows to be right throughout the series. In Changes, however, he faces his greatest struggles yet. Harry's journey has always been a challenging one, not to mention a dark one. Any avid reader of the series knows that there are certain recurrences in each and every novel, and I, personally, was beginning to hang my head whenever I picked up the latest one and had to hear the description of Harry's apartment or car for the sixteenth time.īutcher seems to have admitted to his repetitive disposition and torn himself, as well as the reader, away from what they were comfortable with, giving the series the 'changes' it truly needed. Changes is well titled in that Butcher presents the same world, characters, and how they interact with each other, but he takes the formula for his series and turns it upside down. Changes is an appropriate title for such a long standing series.īutcher's long-running wizard/noir stories come to an enthralling climax in this pivotal point in the all the character's lives.

Changes by jim butcher