Book Review: Dresden Files: War Cry

Book: Dresden Files: War Cry volume #4 (issues #1-5) by Jim Butcher and Mark Powers with illustrations by Carlos Gomez

Source: Borrowed from Publisher/NetGalley for an honest review

Publication: November 11, 2014

Description:

A war is raging between the vampire forces of the Red Court and the White Council — a war that the wizards are losing.

So desperate are the Council that they've dragooned the experienced and the outcast to reinforce their thinning ranks of Wardens.

One of these draftees is one Harry Dresden, Chicago's only wizard-for-hire and a guy who's long been looked upon with suspicion by the supernatural authorities.

Now, he's one of them, and his first big mission as a Warden is a doozy: take a small team of greenhorns to a frigid town in the middle of nowhere to rescue a handful of mortals who've been targeted by the Red Court.

The question is, why exactly are these particular mortals so crucial to the outcome of the war?

The answer will come only if Harry can keep them, and his team, alive for one very long night. 


Rating: 5 stars

Review:

I really like this. Even though I've never read a Dresden File book before this was easy to follow and fast paced and not to mention very good.

With the White Council's numbers dropping fast from the constant war between the Red Court they enlist the highly unpredictable Harry Dresden as a Warden to take on the task of protecting a group of Venatori Umbrorum, which is a secret society of scholars who provide information and aid to the council.

Along with Dresden are three Wardens in training Yoshimo, Carlos Ramirez and "Wild Bill" Meyers. The group had to travel to a remote location in Iowa in order to get to the Venatori before the vampires arrived.

But there was a lot more going on than simply Dresden and crew trying to protect the scholars. As the fight with vampires intensified the Wardens needed to figure what was really going on. Dresden got some surprising help from his brother Thomas Raith, whose help was truly needed for what they were going up against.

This was really good. It was exciting, action packed and also quite humorous at times. The writing was good and I like how the story unfolded. I like how all the characters were written including the villains. I also really like the artwork.

I thought this was a great introduction for me to the world of Harry Dresden and I definitely will be picking this up and maybe try to read other Dresden books in the future.