This particular book, though, just was not a stellar read for me. And hey, 17 books in, of course I’ll keep going with the series. There are some significant developments, including a major, heart-breaking loss, as well as the groundwork for what will likely be significant changes to come. Sorry, but chapter after chapter after chapter of Harry throwing his power around, being outmatched, and then somehow soldiering on just doesn’t make for great reading. I read the Dresden books for the characters, the escapades, the life-or-death struggles… but not never-ending action sequences where it’s almost impossible to tell who’s who or what awful creature has which awful powers, to be brought down by which even more awful weaponry. As for me, a book that’s basically one long, extended battle for at least 80% of its length does not make for great reading. If you like big, booming battles with lots of firepower, explosions, magical energy, and devastation of a major metropolis, you’ll probably love Battle Ground. oh, sorry, my eyes keep glazing over when I think about what a slog this book was. Our hero, Harry Dresden, charges in on the side of good alongside every ally he’s ever made, plus some former/future adversaries who’ve declared a truce for now in order to attempt to defeat the even worse bad guys. I guess if they’d been combined, it would have made for one super massive book, so the publisher decided to break it in two - there’s really no other reason I can think of for not telling the entire story in one volume (and might have been a good opportunity to cut out some of the endless battle scenes…)Īs you’d guess from the title, Battle Ground is all about a massive battle that threatens the destruction of Chicago, and from there, all of humankind. And yet, I can’t give Battle Ground more than 2.5 stars.īattle Ground is basically part two of the story begun in Peace Talks, the 16th book, published just three months earlier. And the attempt will change Harry’s life, Chicago, and the mortal world forever.Ĭonsidering I’m up to volume 17 in the Dresden Files series, it’s safe to say that I’m a fan. Harry’s mission is simple but impossible: Save the city by killing a Titan. The Last Titan has declared war on the city of Chicago, and has come to subjugate humanity, obliterating any who stand in her way. A being more powerful and dangerous on an order of magnitude beyond what the world has seen in a millennium is coming. The Outsiders.īut this time it’s different. The fallen angels of the Order of the Blackened Denarius. He has a long history of fighting enemies above his weight class. THINGS ARE ABOUT TO GET SERIOUS FOR HARRY DRESDEN, CHICAGO’S ONLY PROFESSIONAL WIZARD, in the next entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling Dresden Files.
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