The story is more focused than most Dresden books, with less deviation from the main plot and fewer twists and turns. The last 60 pages are amongst the most hectic and packed pages I've read in recent times (which after all 12 books is a huge emotional investment) - with a big shocker right at the end. Seriously I know that there were bound to be some Changes (the title being the first clue) but my god I didn't realise just how many and how far reaching those Changes would be. Step in world-weary wizard PI Harry, totally unprepared for the literal shitstorm Butcher is about to put the poor fellow through. Susan has only come clean because the Red Court Vampires have kidnapped Maggie and clearly plan to do unspeakable things to her.

So the big news right at the start is that Harry has a daughter - Maggie, a child that ex-girlfriend and half-vampire Susan Rodriguez has been hiding from him for years.

It's impossible to write about Changes without giving away a few spoilers - however I'm not going to mention anything you can't read on the back of the book itself. And that, is what makes this one of Butcher's most elegant tales to date.After the tremendous Turn Coat, I was expecting big things from Changes and boy does this book live up to the promises. However, the questions of right and wrong, good and evil, have never before been grayer as Harry makes life-altering decisions that will, no doubt, have lasting effects for the rest of the series. His morals have been unbelievably steadfast as he's done exactly what he knows to be right throughout the series.

In Changes, however, he faces his greatest struggles yet. Harry's journey has always been a challenging one, not to mention a dark one. Any avid reader of the series knows that there are certain recurrences in each and every novel, and I, personally, was beginning to hang my head whenever I picked up the latest one and had to hear the description of Harry's apartment or car for the sixteenth time.īutcher seems to have admitted to his repetitive disposition and torn himself, as well as the reader, away from what they were comfortable with, giving the series the 'changes' it truly needed. Changes is well titled in that Butcher presents the same world, characters, and how they interact with each other, but he takes the formula for his series and turns it upside down. Changes is an appropriate title for such a long standing series.īutcher's long-running wizard/noir stories come to an enthralling climax in this pivotal point in the all the character's lives.

Changes by jim butcher