2018 reading challenge: book published in 2018

Brief Cases by Jim Butcher

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


overall I greatly enjoyed this collection of short stories in the world of Harry Dresden.

As with Side Jobs: Stories from the Dresden Files, you really do need to be fully caught up with the main books in the series in order to not be spoiled by these stories.

What I liked the most about this collection was that we get glimpses into the lives of some of the secondary characters... Anastasia Luccio, Gentleman John Marconne, Molly, Maggie and Mouse. I really enjoyed the fleshing out of these characters.

What keeps me from giving this book 5 stars is the inclusion of 3 stories that had been published already in the short novella/anthology "working for bigfoot". If these shorts had only been in other collected works anthology (like the one that Molly's story was in), I wouldn't have had a problem. But as they had already been released (even in limited edition) as a Dresden book, I felt a little cheated.

All and all though, good stories and helps tide us diehard fans over until Peace Talks comes out.



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