Perfect book to read during a work week that offered no uninterrupted time to read. The quick pace made it easy to pick up and put down often when I could catch a few moments.

Was recommended by a friend who is big fan of Dresden Files and had likened it to hardboiled detective novels. Although it did shared some traits with the genre - namely the fact that Harry Dresden kind of stumbles his way into the solution by being in the wrong place at the wrong time, getting beat up a lot and pissing off his friends along the way, much like a Philip Marlowe novel - it did not have the cool tight stylistic prose that one associates with the novels of Chandler and Hammett. The first person narrative was a little simplistic at times.

With that said, it was pretty fun read and I will definitely be picking up more Harry Dresden in the future.