Storm Front

Storm Front

By Jim Butcher

Storm Front is the first book in the Dresden Files series. Click here to see my review of the whole series. The series is amazing, we’ve already been down that road so I won’t go there again. What I like about Storm Front specifically is that it sets the tone for the series. Jim Butcher takes a very nerdy and modern twist on hardboiled fiction. By far, my favorite non fantasy literary styles is hardboiled fiction. Butcher follows in the footsteps of Carroll John Daly, Dashiell Hammet, and Raymond Chandler. Except rather than mimic their style Butcher creates something new: the ultra-nerd tough guy detective who is a magnet for pain. It is as though Dick Tracey, Rocky, Perry Cox (scrubs) and Lewis Skolnick (Revenge of the nerds) all donated DNA to Victor Frankenstien… and Harry Dresden was created!

As Butcher progresses as a writer he moves away from the Hardboiled fiction style. This makes me like Storm Front all the more. When I go back and reread Storm Front I just love the attitude and the feel of the book. All of Butchers books are great. Some have better plots or better characters, but Storm Front will always be special to me. I like Harry Dresden so much so that I tried to sell my car for a beat up mismatching beetle and started opening doors for my wife while wearing a trench coat. She punched me, told me to change, and took my keys away from me.

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Go Nerds!