Turn Coat

Title: Turn Coat
Author: Jim Butcher
Published: 2009
Genre: Noir urban fantasy
Pages: 432,listened to the audio book


Hey wow, I'm finally starting to catch up to Mr Butcher! A few more years and I'll actually have to wait for the next book to come out.

The 11th Dresden Files book starts with Harry's favourite (not) Warden stumbling onto his doorstep, asking for sanctuary. Warden Morgan, a pain in Harry's ass (not like that!) for years and years has been framed for murder of a Senior wizard of the White Council. As much as Harry would like to kick the man back out and laugh as he's executed with barely a trial, he believes Morgan to be innocent, and ends up helping him. Even when it brings a nasty Skinwalker monster to his trail, and even when helping Morgan puts both him and his apprentice into serious trouble with the Council.

As always, things aren't quite that simple, and there's plenty of And Then It Got Worse. I find it's harder to concentrate on an audio book than on one that you read, so I did miss some action and details, but damn, I got a lot of walking done. James Marsters is a joy to listen, and it was nice to hear him speak with an English accent for a while, again (Spiiiiiiiiike!). As usual, I'm tempted to jump straight to the next one, but hell, I've also got a pile of other books that I want to jump into.


   There’s power in the night. There’s terror in the darkness. Despite all our accumulated history, learning, and experience, we remember. We remember times when we were too small to reach the light switch on the wall, and when the darkness itself was enough to make us cry out in fear. Get a good ways out from civilization-say, miles and miles away on a lightless lake-and the darkness is there, waiting. Twilight means more than just time to call the children in from playing outside. Fading light means more than just the end of another day. Night is when terrible things emerge from their sleep and seek soft flesh and hot blood. Night is when unseen beings with no regard for what our people have built and no place in what we have deemed the natural order look in at our world from outside, and think dark and alien thoughts. And sometimes, just sometimes, they do things. 

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