Skin Game: A Novel of the Dresden Files, Book 15
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Rating | : | 4.36 (727 Votes) |
Asin | : | B00JDQ7X8O |
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Number of Pages | : | 581 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2017-01-22 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Tom Shutt said "Dear God in Heaven, Harry.". An ex-cop, a Denarian, a mercenary sorcerer, a wanted warlock, a shapeshifter, and a Warden of the White Council all walk into a slaughterhouseAlright, 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 no. "Please, sir, I want some more." Kindle Customer I admit it freely. I am an absolute glutton when it comes to books. I have a marked impatience with short stories; the portions are not nearly large enough. I like my story fix to come in great big value size portionswhen it comes to fiction super-size me please. I love coming to a series late in the game because I finally have portions to state my voracious appetite for wordsor come close. I do not read 'a' book. When the next book in a series come. "if you like the series, you should enjoy this one, too" according to Sneaky Burrito. I plowed through this series in a few months and I'm sad that I'll have to wait along with everyone else for the next installment. I'm even considering reading this one again. I will try to avoid spoilers in this review, but let me say that there are a lot of shifting loyalties and double crosses in this book, and now that I know what happens in the end, I want to go back and see how it is set up, to look at the clues I totally bypassed as unimporta
And now he must help a group of supernatural villains - led by one of Harry's most dreaded and despised enemies, Nicodemus Archleone - to break into the highest-security vault in town, so that they can then access the highest-security vault in the Nevernever. Usually, it's something awful. It's a smash-and-grab job to recover the literal Holy Grail from the vaults of the greatest treasure hoard in the supernatural world - which belongs to the one and only Hades, Lord of the freaking Underworld and generally unpleasant character. Dresden's always been tricky, but he's going to have to up his backstabbing game to survive this mess - assuming his own allies don't end up killing him before his enemies get the chance.. Especially Harry. And he's dead certain that Nicodemus has no intention of allowing any of his crew to survive the experience. Mab has just traded Harry's skills to pay off one of her de