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Jul 09, · Alright, that joke isn’t really set up to elicit a lot of laughs, but this book does have plenty of laugh-out-loud moments. Skin Game is the fifteenth book in Jim Butcher’s fantastic Dresden Files series, and this review is going to assume that you have already read the first fourteen books. If not, you should get on that/5(K). May 01, · Listen to Skin Game audiobook by Jim Butcher. Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet or mobile phone. Bestsellers and latest releases. try any audiobook Free! Jul 09, · Skin Game: A Novel of the Dresden Files [Jim Butcher, James Marsters] on blogger.com *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Chicago wizard Harry Dresden must help a hated enemy, Nicodemus Archleone, break into a high security vault to steal something belonging to the Lord of the Underworld in the latest novel of the humorous fantasy series following Cold Days/5(K).
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Top Reviews Most recent Top Reviews. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Format: Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. Great Book, Great Series. It's been over 4 years skin game by jim butcher audiobook download. You get writers block or just rich and lazy? I'd like to be able to finish the skin game by jim butcher audiobook download before one of us dies. That's not being flippant I started reading your first book in this series 18 years ago.
You used to pump out 1 a year for 14 years straight. Now its been over 4 year's and nothing?? Do your fans a favor and get back in front of your type writer, keyboard or hell pick up a pen and paper but finish the series. Format: Kindle Edition.
An ex-cop, a Denarian, a mercenary sorcerer, a wanted warlock, skin game by jim butcher audiobook download, a shapeshifter, and a Warden of the White Council all walk into a slaughterhouse If not, you should get on that. Since this novel is the 15th out of a proposed series of about 20 books, you can expect this number to hold a certain degree of significance in the life of Harry Dresden.
In this case, he's robbing the Lord of the Underworld for some of the Church's most powerful artifacts--and he is allied with Nicodemus Archleone, the baddest of the Denarians and Harry's greatest archenemy. Harry Dresden has had a rough time of it so far, and the books thus far have had their ups and downs; lots of fist-in-the-air moments juxtaposed with some cringe-worthy scenes of forced, awkward dialogue. I loved this book for many reasons, but the greatest one is this: Harry is back.
He is less mopey about being the Winter Knight, or at least less vocal about it, and he is just as affably awkward around beautiful women as he was at the start of the series. Harry has been a pretty awful friend for the past couple books, and that karmic justice is catching up to him now.
In addition, Harry has been the Winter Knight for a while now, and it shows in this book. Several of these moments gave me chills pun intendedbecause like it or not, Harry Dresden the gumshoe private investigator is disappearing on us, slowly being replaced by something colder and darker.
While Dresden still cracks off plenty of Star Wars references, Skin Game adds a slew of new fandoms to his repertoire, so be on the lookout for some Monty Python and Lord of skin game by jim butcher audiobook download Rings as well, to name a couple.
I did not receive an ARC of this book. I stayed up until midnight, and then until 3 a. Then I stayed up until sleep sucker-punched me into unconsciousness; and when I woke up, I started reading again. And you know what? It was worth it. After more than fifteen months of waiting, Jim Butcher has provided me with a book that improves upon the best aspects of past Dresden stories.
Am I biased for being a long-time fan of the series? This review is for all of those readers who, like me, have questioned whether Harry Dresden was worth following for another six years or more, whether Jim Butcher had lost interest in his flagship character after more than a decade and a half of writing about him.
I like to think this book is a tribute to the fans. It has pulpy fight scenes and distractingly beautiful women, and the build-up to the heist of Hades is something to behold. Harry is becoming more aware of the community of allies that he has created, and he is becoming wise in his years. Dresden makes up for a lot of debts he has accumulated over the years, and it feels like we finally get some closure to things that have bothered Harry for ages now.
I like good people, and I liked this book. You can do the math. Short version, pertaining exclusively to this book: Best book in the series yet!
Can't wait for the next one. When I first began reading this series, I had already read the Codex Alera, and thought it was pretty good. There was a good bit of obvious borrowing from real historical events in that one, and I feel like it both added credence to the story arc, but simultaneously detracted from the author's creativity.
But as my college art professor always half-jokingly said, "Good artists borrow. Great artists steal. I would like to compare Jim Butcher's writing to fine wine, only getting better with age.
But who am I kidding, I drink wine out of boxes, and only really know anything about fine writing, which this definitely is, and I feel qualified to skin game by jim butcher audiobook download that judgement call having read over a thousand books as of 2 years ago, and over half of them without pictures.
I would say that his use of esoteric vocabulary is surpassed only by Ayn Rand's, but instead of espousing a thinly veiled message of society-ruining selfishness, bordering on pure evil, which if adopted by large enough numbers of people, would certainly lead to another reign of terror, like that of Robespierre, instead as counterpoint, Butcher delivers a protagonist espousing the opposite of selfishness as a philosophy of life.
Initially I found the plots somewhat transparent, formulaic, and predictable, but after the first six-ish books, I realized that regardless of skin game by jim butcher audiobook download predictability of pattern, I have become enamored of Butcher's sense of humor, and without his puns, witticisms, and sci-fi references, I find other authors lacking, who are otherwise perfectly good writers.
Even the comedy of comedy-genius, Christopher Moore, can no longer satiate my insatiable desire for the comic relief, provided by Butcher's comical comedy stylings, using the supernatural world of Chicago as his tragicomical setting with Harry Dresden as his delivery medium for fantastically biting one-liners, and insults. In other words, he's a fantasy author for those who refuse to, or just can't, suspend disbelief in the literally impossible, and not just the extremely improbable.
And when I say pan-pantheonic, I mean it. It is in the end, all about perception, just ask Molly. Please, Mr. Butcher, release the next books as quickly as possible. I beg you. I don't want to forget the nuances of the stories, because I have never been able to read a book more than once, even if just to refresh my memory, skin game by jim butcher audiobook download.
If it's more than a few months until the next one, I will end up forgetting. Oh WOW! Oh, really, really wow. This was pretty darned amazing. There's a lot of action and so many twists I couldn't keep track of them all. There are returning villains and allies all of whom are really distinct. His characters are never cardboard cutouts or vanilla bad or good guys or gals. Mab has 'loaned' Harry's services out to one of the baddest of the bad and he's got to fulfill his assignment without getting himself or his associates killed and without doing anything more than the actual task he was given to help the bad guy.
There several times I had to stop reading for a minute and just tell myself what it seemed was about to happen wasn't because Jim, hopefully, wouldn't do that to us. Once again a great story with great characters and a lesson that doesn't beat you over the head - everyone makes mistakes and everyone makes a choice.
Really makes you think. See all reviews from the United States. Top international reviews. Verified Purchase. Although I have enjoyed every one of Jim Butcher's 14 previous 'Dresden Files' novels, my one significant criticism of the more recent entries in the series is that the big finales have sometimes gone somewhat OTT, skin game by jim butcher audiobook download.
The trend started with Harry Dresden riding a zombie dinosaur though downtown Chicago, but it reached its peak with the massive island assault at the end of vol. I have nothing against big set pieces per se, but for me the Dresden Files' increasing over reliance on them robbed the series of some of it original appeal.
After all, as the 'Dresden Files' sub-title suggests, this was originally an urban fantasy take on the film-noir Detective series; Philip Marlowe with magic if you skin game by jim butcher audiobook download. However, over time and as Jim Butcher expanded skin game by jim butcher audiobook download alternative universe in which the stories are set, skin game by jim butcher audiobook download, the books have become less mysteries with a magical spin and more grand fantasy epics.
They were still enjoyable, but some of what made the early novels such as Storm Front so great for me had been lost. I am happy to report therefore, that with Skin Game Jim Butcher seems to have rediscovered some of the old magic, if you will pardon the expression, by returning Harry back to a smaller scale adventure.
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Mar 09, · / 5 (90 votes) Contents1 All about The Dresden Files: Skin Game Audiobook Free2 Audiobook Review3 Plot Summary4 Download and Listen All about The Dresden Files: Skin Game Audiobook Free Jim Butcher’s Skin Game Audiobook is the highly anticipated 15th adventure of Chicago’s only professional wizard, Harry Dresden/5(90). Jul 09, · Skin Game: A Novel of the Dresden Files [Jim Butcher, James Marsters] on blogger.com *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Chicago wizard Harry Dresden must help a hated enemy, Nicodemus Archleone, break into a high security vault to steal something belonging to the Lord of the Underworld in the latest novel of the humorous fantasy series following Cold Days/5(K). Written by Jim Butcher, Audiobook narrated by James Marsters. Sign-in to download and listen to this audiobook today! First time visiting Audible? Get this book free when you sign up for a day Trial. Skin Game includes some of my favorite characters including Murphy, Michael and Butters.
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