Summer Knight

Jim Butcher

Sep 2002 · Dresden Files Book 4 · Sold by Penguin

About this ebook

In the fourth novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series featuring everyone's favorite wizard for hire, Harry Dresden is suckered into the tangled—and dangerous—affairs of Faerie...

Ever since his girlfriend left town to deal with her newly acquired taste for blood, Harry Dresden has been down and out in Chicago. He can’t pay his rent. He’s alienating his friends. He can’t even recall the last time he took a shower. The only professional wizard in the phone book has become a desperate man.
 
And just when it seems things can’t get any worse, in saunters the Winter Queen of Faerie. She has an offer Harry can’t refuse if he wants to free himself of the supernatural hold his faerie godmother has over him—and hopefully end his run of bad luck. All he has to do is find out who murdered the Summer Queen’s right-hand man, the Summer Knight, and clear the Winter Queen’s name.
 
It seems simple enough, but Harry knows better than to get caught in the middle of faerie politics. Until he finds out that the fate of the entire world rests on his solving this case. No pressure or anything...

Ratings and reviews

I can honestly say that Jim Butcher's writing gets better with each book. Summer Knight is a fun story that gets slightly away from the police/S.I. angle (aside from the help Murphy provides) and dives deeper into the world of the Sidhe. If you have read the first three books and thought that Harry couldn't get beat up any more than he already has then you will be surprised to find that he reaches some new levels of abuse in Summer Knight. Overall, Butcher does a great job of leading me deeper into the world of Harry Dresden, and I find myself ready to dive into the next book in the series as soon as I read the last page in the current book.

Great book so far. One problem is I am roughly 1/3 the way through and have found 20 or so grammar errors in this digital version where the spaces between words are missing. Does not take away from the book itself just a little bothersome. Will make full review once book is finished.

I enjoy the Dresden books for what they are. Light hearted action-adventure fun with a good mystery whodunit feel. I'd recommend this to anyone who just wants to have a good time and isn't looking for an author that writes a 400 page treatment on how smart they want you to think they are.

About the author

A martial arts enthusiast whose résumé includes a long list of skills rendered obsolete at least two hundred years ago, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher turned to writing as a career because anything else probably would have driven him insane. He lives mostly inside his own head so that he can write down the conversation of his imaginary friends, but his head can generally be found in Independence, Missouri. Jim is the author of the Dresden Files, the Codex Alera novels, and the Cinder Spires series, which began with The Aeronaut’s Windlass.