The Bear Minimum

It was a lot of fun, too!

The books themselves took nearly a fortnight after I ordered them to turn up, which was quite irritating. They’re not very long books, either, lending themselves easily to my reading them out loud to my wife.

We’ve both been enjoying the book, largely, and when we got to the final three chapters or so last night, late last night, we had to press on and finish the book. It was a pretty fun read, and I’m very glad I’ve got the second book to go straight onto today.

Harry Dresden is a good protagonist to read about, and I enjoyed the first person perspective throughout the whole book. I enjoyed feeling like I was watching one of those classic detective movies from the forties and fifties. My wife and I are both looking forward to Butcher’s take on many other mythological creatures, as the descriptions of familiar monsters were enjoyably unique.

Our only gripe with the book would be that every woman that Dresden encounters seems to be more and more gorgeous than the last, which makes Butcher seem immature, and the descriptions of what people are wearing. For some reason I intensely dislike the word ’slacks’.

So later today I’ll be starting the second book, Fool Moon, and now I’ve also got to find another online book store to buy the books from, as I was very unhappy with the service of the last place. It’s very irksome to me to deliberately pick a book store which says they’ve got the books in stock and that they ship within four days of payment being received, and to then send them an email six days after payment was received by them, to be told that ‘the books are on their way from the warehouse’.

They sent me a follow up email asking if I liked the books and was I happy with the transaction (looking for customer testimonies for their website) to which I replied very curtly that I liked the book but the postage time was terrible!