Okay, so, this book's big problem for me was that I didn't like Harry Dresdon. Seeing as how he's not only the protagonist, but the book's narrator, this pretty much destroyed any chance of me liking the book. His style of explaining all his decisions rubbed me the wrong way. Perhaps worst, though, Harry is the kind of man who will say things like "The thing about women, is--" at which point it hardly matters how he finishes the statement, I'm going to be annoyed.

So, I can't recommend it, but the reasons it didn't work for me were mostly personal. I would have given it two stars to reflect my enjoyment of it, but bumped it up another star, in an attempt to be fair.