Small Favor

A Novel of the Dresden Files , #10

Hardcover, 416 pages

English language

Published March 31, 2008 by Roc Hardcover.

ISBN:
978-0-451-46189-6
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OCLC Number:
174138906

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4 stars (115 reviews)

The new novel in the New York Times bestselling Dresden Files series.No one's tried to kill Harry Dresden for almost an entire year, and his life finally seems to be calming down. For once, the future looks fairly bright. But the past casts one hell of a long shadow.An old bargain has placed Harry in debt to Mab, monarch of the Winter Court of the Sidhe, the Queen of Air and Darkness-and she's calling in her marker. It's a small favor he can't refuse...one that will trap Harry Dresden between a nightmarish foe and an equally deadly ally, and one that will strain his skills- and loyalties-to their very limits.It figures. Everything was going too well to last...

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Not as interesting as the previous ones

3 stars

I wasn't as invested in this book as the previous ones. It sure is fun and full of action, but I guess I wasn’t in the mood for so much action all at once. I can see that this book will bring serious repercussions for the plot in the future. Harry Dresden is again pushed to his limits, with overpowering supernatural entities. I was worried about a particular character's future health, something I'll have to discover in the next book.

reviewed Small Favor by Jim Butcher (The Dresden Files, #10)

Review of 'Small Favor' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Harry, Harry, Harry. You will never change, and that's why I love you so much. More sass. More monsters. And more coins floating around Chicago, harassing Murph and Harry. Luckily they have the knights and wardens to help them fight evil.

Marcone is trouble, and Mab calls on Harry to bail him out. He reluctantly helps his frenemy, because he just can't resist the siren's call of trouble. He gathers his band of merry men and women, and they quest on to save the good people of Chicago. And Ivy. And Marcone. Harry makes some missteps and bad decisions, puts everyone in danger, and barely saves the day, as usual. And he gets his ass kicked as many times as you would expect. But what's that I smell around the corner? Could it be romance? Nah, I feel like Butcher is messing with us. Guess we will see in book …

reviewed Small Favor by Jim Butcher (The Dresden Files, #10)

Review of 'Small Favor' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

In my comments on the first nine books I mentioned how the Dresden books follow a distinct formula, and how that formula becomes more apparent the more you read them. There is definitely a formula involved, but it is less obvious if you read the books with some interval of time between them. I read the first nine in a relatively short period of time, but read the tenth one about a year later, and as a result the formula was a lot less noticeable, and the read was a lot more enjoyable as a result.

reviewed Small Favor by Jim Butcher (The Dresden Files, #10)

Review of 'Small Favor' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

I read this book on the exercise bike, and I kept working out too long because I'd lose track of time and keep pedaling!

You know, there's this thing Jim Butcher does in a lot of his books that I don't like. "I have a plan! fade to black" That kind of deliberate author withholding from reader usually annoys the crap out of me. But I forgive him, because his pacing is so good that I accidentally work out too long.

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