If you are like me, then you are a huge fantasy fan. It is easily my favorite genre and I have to force myself to read to read other books. But for this list, we will be staying with this genre as we share our list of the 21 must read fantasy books of all time!
I don’t understand the love that the Dresden Files gets. Great idea with terrible execution. Butcher’s writing is just clumsy with bad dialogue and weak world building. The series was originally recommended to me because I was lamenting that Gibson had moved away from noir after Neuromancer and a friend thought Butcher would fit the bill.
Dresden Files is one of those series where I think if you encountered it when urban fantasy was just revving up as a genre (and you were the right age), it imprints on you. It was definitely its own cool thing when it first broke out.
But it’s not aging well 20 years later, and if you come to it older I think you “imprint” on it less.
I genuinely despise the dialogue for at least the first six books in the Dresden files. If my friend didn’t convince me to keep going, I would have given up. However, around book 10-12 is when I saw the magic.
That’s a huge time investment for something you may not eventually like, but it paid off for me fwiw.
I genuinely despise the dialogue for at least the first six books in the Dresden files. If my friend didn’t convince me to keep going, I would have given up. However, around book 10-12 is when I saw the magic.
That’s a huge time investment for something you may not eventually like, but it paid off for me fwiw.