The D-Files (Trust No One)

[bcholmes]

So, I'm reading the first book in The Dresden Files series. And I'm not loving it. I thought I'd heard a lot of people rave about the series. Do they get better at some point?

Comments

[wealhtheow]

I dunno, I gave up midway through the first book. I've read short stories written later and set later in the series, and the issues I had with the first book (Dresden seems too artificially constructed to me, and I just don't buy his combo woobie+tough-guy-from-the-streets act, plus the writing is barely workmanlike, plus there are too many gender stereotypes for me, etc) remain there later on.

[firecat]

I didn't like the first book. I read a short story that was part of the series, I don't remember where in the sequence it was. I liked it a little better, but not enough to seek out any more Dresden.

[trouble]

People tell me it gets better around book four, if I recall correctly, but I don't like any of Butcher's writing so I never stuck it out.

Don says the first book was the strongest, and he finished the first five.

[merielle]

I am not a fan of the first, but I like the series after the second or so; it hits the buttons that the pre-all-sex-all-the-time Anita Blake books hit for me. I know many folks have problems with gender issues in the series, but I don't. And I like his supernatural world building, how there are lots of competing factions and interests - different vampire courts, the Knights of the Cross, various sekrit brotherhoods, etc. YMMV.

[stonebender]

I don't know. I haven't read them. I did enjoy a short lived TV show based on the books here in the US.