We can start the book and this review with a helluva good laugh: Flying poop of fire! Yes; you read correctly, Blood Rites starts off with Harry Dresden being chased by a demon that sets its feces on fire and then throws it. I swear Butcher must have gotten his son, nieces and nephews together and said: Okay, what should we write about? One said, poop. The second said more fire. Another said The Wizard of Oz and the last said puppies. Butchers then said: Our work here is done. Time for ice-cream! That one good laugh will continue when a turkey impales a Black Court Vampire via a rerouted entropy curse. (aka: Evil eye, Malocchio)
Other thoughts about Blood Rites: Eww!!!
What the heck do I mean? Well lets put it this way, a review on paperbackswap.com for Death Maks said: I first picked up this series because I watched the TV show which is based on the books and wanted more of Harry Dresden and his supernatural adventures. Sadly the show only lasted for one season, which is not that surprising if you consider that cool shows get canceled sooner than they should be and we end up with naked people covered in bodily fluids prancing around on the screen. But I digress (Olga J.)
The t.v. show must have ended with the sixth (6th) book because Harry was hired to protect a producer from a Malocchio the Italian word for the Evil Eye. What does this guy produce you might ask? He produces pornography. Hence the thought of end[ing] up with naked people covered in bodily fluids prancing around on the screen.
But not only did the original author of that particular review digress, so do I. Harry gets the job to protect Arturo Genosa (the producer) through Thomas Raith (White Court vampire from Grave Peril. It would be good to note that a White Court vampire feeds off the energy of a person through sex.) This job entails tracing the curse back to the source and shutting him or her down presumably a her since it is a personal, well-sculpted curse. Sounds simple until the curse nearly kills two actors (Genosa wasnt even there) and then a succubus or two arrives on set.
All the while, Harry decides to take the offensive instead of defensive route and go after the Black Court vampires more specifically, Mavra. He hires Kincaid (gun for hire in Death Masks), asks Murphy and only Murphy instead of S.I., and Ebenezer McCoy. Through this event Harry will learn a little more about Murphy, as well as Kincaid and Blackstaff McCoy.
Perhaps it is a good thing that Jim Butcher was genius enough to start off with a good laugh because this book had some pretty heavy themes running through it: the true meaning of family, rape, incest, and pure greed. Again, for all of the aforementioned themes, all I can say is EWWW because of the way it presented itself and for the way things turned out!
Other thoughts about Blood Rites: Eww!!!
What the heck do I mean? Well lets put it this way, a review on paperbackswap.com for Death Maks said: I first picked up this series because I watched the TV show which is based on the books and wanted more of Harry Dresden and his supernatural adventures. Sadly the show only lasted for one season, which is not that surprising if you consider that cool shows get canceled sooner than they should be and we end up with naked people covered in bodily fluids prancing around on the screen. But I digress (Olga J.)
The t.v. show must have ended with the sixth (6th) book because Harry was hired to protect a producer from a Malocchio the Italian word for the Evil Eye. What does this guy produce you might ask? He produces pornography. Hence the thought of end[ing] up with naked people covered in bodily fluids prancing around on the screen.
But not only did the original author of that particular review digress, so do I. Harry gets the job to protect Arturo Genosa (the producer) through Thomas Raith (White Court vampire from Grave Peril. It would be good to note that a White Court vampire feeds off the energy of a person through sex.) This job entails tracing the curse back to the source and shutting him or her down presumably a her since it is a personal, well-sculpted curse. Sounds simple until the curse nearly kills two actors (Genosa wasnt even there) and then a succubus or two arrives on set.
All the while, Harry decides to take the offensive instead of defensive route and go after the Black Court vampires more specifically, Mavra. He hires Kincaid (gun for hire in Death Masks), asks Murphy and only Murphy instead of S.I., and Ebenezer McCoy. Through this event Harry will learn a little more about Murphy, as well as Kincaid and Blackstaff McCoy.
Perhaps it is a good thing that Jim Butcher was genius enough to start off with a good laugh because this book had some pretty heavy themes running through it: the true meaning of family, rape, incest, and pure greed. Again, for all of the aforementioned themes, all I can say is EWWW because of the way it presented itself and for the way things turned out!
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