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Storm Front
- The Dresden Files, Book 1
- Narrated by: James Marsters
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
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- Nithun Sridhar
- 09-05-20
As good as it is touted
An elegant masterpiece of writing. I'm usually a high fantasy hard magic system kind of guy. but getting a simple 1st person low fantasy crime drama is kind of incredible. Highly recommended for anyone who like funny protagonists and interesting side characters
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- Rajesh
- 12-05-22
For a selected few
The only twist in this regular mystery is that there are wizards, vampires and demons involved. So the villain will have some demons instead of a henchman who is 6 ft 5 in and 150 kgs the protagonist will have to struggle and fight. The protagonist is a wizard and will have some good spells. There is some human touch to these supernatural characters as their powers are limited by their own capacities. The mystery is quite interesting and has its regular twist and turn,
Will I read one more in the series? The answer is no as this wizardry is not to my liking but I am sure folks who love DnD and Harry Potter would love this mystery novel.
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- Shyam
- 26-08-21
Creates an Illusion of Being Big, but not fully.
The Story promises to be something huge and might have a Variety of plots or leads to start with but just focuses on the story and the Main plot and introduces only what's needed. Though that's how a Plot moves, it doesn't explain the trype of World the Story goes. Plot tell something really interesting, but it's hard to imagine it without any other key points to help us Scale.
Hope, down the series the World of Dresden is explained more.
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- Pooja Solanki
- 10-05-21
amazing start to a series
it has everything you hope for thrilling story, character that you fall in love with,setup to a world and promise of great adventures
Narration of the book is great, really bring Harry Dresden to life!
looking forward to other books in the series
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- vivek meharwal
- 29-08-20
Outstanding performance
Allright here we go:
So first Stormfront is the first book in THE Dresden Files series. its pretty short id say but lets get into the details(spoiler free! you're safe)
We meet Dresden who happens to have a job very much like Sherlock, he tracks down the bad guys but is not officially a cop( his friend Merphy on the other hand is, she is also the person who asks him for help when the mystery is TRICKY, you get it) HOWEVER the trope subversion takes place when we get to know( in the first page itself) that he is a WIZARD.
Let's talk about the characters first or more specifically, Dresden: I'd say if there is one thing that pulled me in the story its him. He has the perfect amount of humor and sass that'll make you smile while still making sense for his character and not being over the top. he's pretty easy to latch onto and I think its safe to say that while on the surface he may appear as a typical, plain straightforward character...well, he isn't. He has alot of potential, there were times where he wasn't as upbeat as he always was. He has flaws and I noticed that there were many throw away lines about his past and who he used to be and think that builds a good base.
Plot: So incase your wondering if its horror, the answer is no. its more of a thriller and mystery because it IS a murder mystery. I'll say that it was somewhat of a predictable plot. you could predict who the MAIN BAD GUY was, but i don't really view it as a negative because I feel like the first book was just for setting a tone of this world, getting to know that there are Wizards Vampires Pixies you name it!( but if I'm being honest I don't think that this series is necessarily a whimsical and magical series regardless of the terms I used, even the though the first book was pretty easy to fly through and I bet the next few are as well) and getting to know and latch onto Dresden as our protagonist. so that sounds a pretty win win to me.
Magic System: Now I don't know if the magic system will evolve as this story progresses but in this book it was super soft. you know random word spells that don't really mean a thing to charms and hexes and staffs and TALKING SKELTONS ( you heard me right, the right hand man(well, skeleton) of Dresden his name is a skeleton: Bob)
Trigger Warnings( if you feel you don't need it you can skip this portion): Now as far as graphic scenes go, its not a lot( although I've heard they do get more as the series goes on) there's only 2 scenes with some heart ripped out of there body(but again its not that graphic).
All in all it was a fun great starting point but NOW let's talk about the narrator:
He was GREAT, he basically IS Dresden, in fact I prefer reading physically but his skills make me want to just listen to the audiobook. I will mention that some people complain about his exhales and lip smacking, but it didn't really bother infant i actually liked it, so it WILL get better because people say that he becomes even BETTER. Which is saying something.
I really reccomend this book and I will definitely continue with this series 😀
Peace out!✌
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- Anonymous User
- 13-03-19
top class narrative, loved it
top class narrative, loved it, nice engaging story, very good book, definitely a must read/hear
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- Tom
- 20-05-10
Excellent Story, Distracting Sound Engineering
I loved the story and the narrator voice acting, but, like others, found the excess captured physical noises like breathing, swallowing etc very distracting. The chapter or section transitions were also very abrupt...breaking the flow.
I am glad I purchased it and would highly recommend it to all, but I hope they fix the sound issues for future books.
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- Donna
- 13-07-09
Excellent listen and a great start to the series
It must be hard - harder than just publishing your book - to publish a book in this format. Not only does the book win or lose due to it's quality, but it has the added complication of being able to fail due to the narrator being unsuitable to the material.
This book, and it's narrator, bring Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden to wry, sarcastic life.
What the book and narrator have, the audio editing could have brought out more. You do hear James Marsters take many a deep breath, and for many of those, it seems to fit into the nature of the character being portrayed. After a while, you understand that better editing would have alleviated the background product of getting long passages of text out.
I had still made the decision to download the next few books in this series by the time I'd reached the middle of the book. I'd checked first to make sure that the narrator was the same, and he is, before doing so.
A bad narrator has often caused me to stop downloading what might have otherwise been an excellent choice. A good narrator, like this one,
has caused me to listen to entire series I might otherwise have gotten in paperback.
I recommend this to fans of mysteries, magic and modern fantasy.
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- John Morrell
- 25-05-19
Thoroughly Boring
I've heard a lot of great things about the Dresden Files and for all I know it gets much better in the later books but I found this book sooo boring and kind of obnoxious. 1. Writing feels very poor. Lots of cliché, weak character, and personally I found a lot of the trends very obnoxious. For example, every time Dresden meets a female character, she's described in this weird sort of sexual way as though Dresden is a really insecure lonely teenager. The pace is slow, soooo slow. It just drags along with piles of uninteresting details. 2. The narration drove me mad. There is a ton of sort of mouth noises, the sound of his spit or lips clicking and him breathing in loudly, I could barely stand it. And since the whole book is in first person every line is very over acted, the cadence and rhythm lurches around like a amateur theatre actor's reading the whole thing. I'm listening to it now and I swear if he swallows audibly one more time I'm going to scream.
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- Randall
- 05-03-19
ZERO STARS FOR THE NARRATOR !
I CAN'T STAND THE SNIFFING.
Does Masters have a cold or is he just a pig?
The rest of the book was fun and it sounds like from the reviews that the narrator
gets a little better with each book. I will try the next in this series .
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- Radish Bliss
- 30-03-12
STOP SLURPING THE MIC!
What didn???t you like about James Marsters???s performance?
I swear that this reader has a chicken bone in his mouth through the entire book. And if he's not eating something, he is thinking about it. And now that I've said something, that is all you will be able to hear too. You're welcome! Does he slurp? SNIFF? Salivate, and then eventually swallow it all? You betcha!! But, the story is so cool that I'll have to listen to it all again. Sick!
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- Gibby Family
- 31-03-18
The Narrator Hates People
The. Worst. Mouth. Noises. Ever.
I seriously wondered if he was eating bananas.
Who hurt you James!? Who hurt you!? Drink some water and stop licking peanut butter off the microphone.
I couldn’t finish the book and I really tried.
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- Jim "The Impatient"
- 21-07-12
Finally!!
Finally, I have found a writer in this genre that I can follow. This genre seems to be filled with so many crap writers that I had almost given up entirely. I thought the premiss for this sort of literature had so much potential, yet I could not find a good writer in the field. Jim Butcher is that writer. JB could write in any field he wants, but I am glad he chose this one.
The story is ok, the characters are even better. I especially like Bob and hope he is included in later episodes. I like how the main character, beats himself up, like we all do sometimes, but then he gives himself a pep talk and gets things done. The writing is descriptive without being overly so. A lot of time and effort was put into writing this intelligently and creatively. It is not perfect and I will have to admit I debated on rather to give it four or five stars. There are one or two times when the solution to the problem comes to easily, but this is minor and he is mostly faced with major road blocks that he uses his brain to get out of.
The narration and production is different from any I have heard before. I have listened to hundreds of audio books. In this production you will hear the narrator breathing, sometimes it is part of the acting and sometimes it is just the narrator breathing. You can also hear him swallow, change position in his chair, and parting his lips. You would think this would be distracting and for some reviewers it was. For me, it made me feel like I was sitting in a chair across from Harry Dresden as he told his story. I am not sure if they did this on purpose or not. The narrator is excellent either way.
I will be listening to more in this series.
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- Watson H. Rhodes
- 15-03-10
Memorable
I've finished Jim Butcher's first 2 Dresden Files books--this title being the first--and even though I've moved on and I'm now reading other novels, I find myself thinking of The Dresden Files in the middle of the night or at random times. If I feel like reading, my mind automatically assumes (with pleasure) that I'll be reading about Harry Dresden. That's a very high recommendation for any novel.
For those who don't already know, Storm Front introduces us to Harry Dresden, a practicing wizard living in Chicago. That set up and the resulting complications are what make The Dresden Files fun to read. Harry's an interesting character, with a colorful past involving a mother who was a witch, a father who was a stage magician, and an uncle who taught Harry how to be an evil wizard.
In Storm Front, people are being murdered from the inside out, literally. For Lieutenant Murphy of the Chicago Police, it's clear something strange is going on, so she calls on Harry, who occasionally works as a special consultant to the police department, helping with crimes that appear to have no worldly explanation. The magical universe Jim Butcher has created is both believable and fascinating. Learning about that world through Harry's eyes is what I believe is the best part of these books.
I have two major disappointments with these novels: Harry Dresden and Lt. Murphy have a working relationship; yet neither trusts the other. Lt. Murphy especially distrusts Harry Dresden, and the explanation for that distrust seems weak, at best. The false obstacles she places in Harry's path caused by this distrust hurt my enjoyment of the story. At the same time, Harry Dresden has a self-blame complex. Everything is his fault and his responsibility. I found his constant need to blame himself just plain irritating, especially when there was nothing he could have done differently.
Overall, I highly recommend this novel. The good definitely outweighs the somewhat minor irritations.
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- Bill Maurer
- 09-04-15
Good story! Annoying narrator
It was a good book, but the narrators heavy breathing got really old really fast. Listen if you can manage.
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- Tim
- 19-01-12
The Wizard Sam Spade
The premise that there is a real Wizard working as a private eye in Chicago is brilliant. The execution of the story and the performance by James Marsters is similarly near perfect. There is a gritty film Noir feel to the story which makes it at once credible and compelling. It has amusing moments and enough adult content for this not to be a great read for the Harry Potter crowd. The action (of which there is a great deal) feels very cinematic; you can imagine Riddley Scott doing a great job with the mayhem and monsters. I came to this series from the Iron Druid Chronicles which I have seen described as “Dresden Light.” That’s a pretty fair assessment, the villains are darker, sexier more violent and less funny in Dresden; it’s a different kind of story. If Iron Druid is ‘Twilight’ Dresden is ‘True Blood’. That’s probably a bit unfair to the ‘Iron Druid’ as ‘Twilight’ is horrible and ‘Druid’ is terrific...but you get my point. If I have any criticism of Dresden (and it’s slight) it’s that the hero almost never has a good time. There seems to be a rule in fantasy writing that along with fabulous magical ability comes a generally horrible life …to quote the Genie in Aladdin “Phenomenal cosmic powers! Itty bitty living space.” Beyond that tiny reservation, this is a terrific story and performance which I can highly recommend.
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- Tom
- 14-08-09
A great story & brilliantly narrated
I confess that I am a great fan of Jim Butcher's Dresden series and was very much looking forward to hearing the audio version. Well, I am delighted to say that I was not disappointed - quite the reverse.
James Marsters (who played Spike in the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer) is a superb narrator. He perfectly captures Jim Butcher's quirky, almost conversational style; he brings Harry Dresden himself brilliantly to life, as well as drawing the other characters with great aplomb; and he keeps the momentum rolling along without let-up. Great stuff.
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- Iain
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Gripping and atmospheric
Stylish supernatural rollercoaster of a novel, Butcher captures the Film Noir genre perfectly and adds an arcane twist. Harry Dresden, the only person advertising services under "Wizards" in the yellow pages, has a knack for finding trouble. In Storm Front, Dresden becomes the target of a brutal killer who has crossed the forbidden line to kill using black magic, and has learned how to harness enormous energies to kill his victims at a distance. Treated as a suspect himself, by the police and the white council of magic, Dresden faces seemingly impossible odds - he must stop the mysterious sorcerer before it's too late.
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- Sheegamee
- 14-01-17
ewww!
The narrators loud breathing and saliva noises were very off putting. Apart from that it was OK although he could have put a bit more life in to the performance.
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-05-16
Annoying narrator
Would have enjoyed the book more with a narrator who wasn't always swallowing puffing and huffing and making horrible noises. I like a clean listen and this wasn't it
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- Joanne Kendall
- 12-08-09
Magic meets PI
First time I have read a Harry Dresden book and looking forward to reading the rest. A good mix of PI investigations, conflict, magic and action kept the plot going until the end. The characters were well drawn and easy to emphathise with. The plot draws you into the authors world of magic, fairies, demons and humans. I was slightly put off at the start by the world weary narration, although this suits the character it seemed slightly over the top but this didn't spoil my enjoyment of the story.
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- Tessa
- 03-03-11
Great fun and beautifully read.
I tried this book on a whim and i'm so pleased i did. I think i had presumed that after reading so many paranormal books written from a female's point of view that one from a mans' might be a little gung ho and hard to relate to but i was so pleasantly surprised. The protagonist has a brilliantly dry sense of humour that had me giggling out loud every now and again. It was also so refreshing to read a paranormal book that was well thought out and consistent from start to finish, not getting muddled halfway through or getting a little silly by the end. Harry's back story is explained just enough without getting bogged down in the nitty gritty and it was amazing how quickly one was able to understand and relate to the character. In addition i loved the fact that even though the male lead was strong the female roles all had a character of their own. Usually strong or atleast independant, not just simpering excuses for gratuitous sex.
This was all supported by fabulous narration by James Marsters. Such a fantastic voice for this character, he manages to capture the wry sense of humour just perfectly.
So overall i think you can see that i loved it, now on to the next one!
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- saiyen2002
- 06-06-16
Narrator let's the audio book down
Too much breathing and swallowing by the narrator which I found annoying and distracting. Also very sombre and tepid during the action sequence, felt no sense of urgency.
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- Craftgirl22
- 07-04-13
Amusing and gripping
I missed the TV series but I had the impression it was the sort of story I'd like and I was right.
The story has kept me hooked and I've looked forward to my bus journey to and from work but I've even found myself listening while doing the housework - it's the equivalent of the 'unput-downable' book.
James Marsters is pleasant to listen to and although there's quite a lot of irony, which we're often told Americans 'don't get', I found the delivery spot on.
I'm definitely going to get the next one in the series.
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- Cheryl M-M
- 06-10-11
Superbly read by Marsters
First of all I cannot recommend the narrator James Marsters highly enough. He has the character of Dresden down to a fine art. The combination of story and Marsters reading was exceptional, so much so that I often laughed out loud at some of the snarky comments. As for the book, well Jim Butcher has found a loophole in the Supernatural book market and created a wizard, who is funny, interesting and captivating. I am looking forward to the next book in the series.
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- EC W
- 15-05-13
Dashiell Hammett with Magic bits
This is a great romp of a story. A grumpy wizard / detective, in the style of Sam Spade, with lots of fallen women, sex, power, a mob ring and a ticking timebomb of a deadline thrown in for good measure. Even though I had the plot twist figured out half way through (I've done a LOT of detective novels) the magic angle made everything fresh and new. I will definitely be getting the next book.
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- Damien
- 28-04-16
An Eager Start
I had heard a lot about the Dresden Files, it was highly recommended to me by my friends with the advice that it may be slow to start but the series pays off in the long term. I found I actually thoroughly enjoyed the first book and am looking forward to the rest. The plot gave a good grounding point for the stories to come and it introduces Dresden almost like a layman, if not for his power it isn't too hard to imagine him as just like anyone else, at the same time he isn't crazily powerful, nor does he suddenly just have destiny dumped on him, he's a regular office worker, except in magic and he's a private eye... and he doesn't have any money.
The narrator was what truly tied it all in for me. I considered it a stellar performance, it was the same as Daniel Radcliffe being the perfect image of the young harry potter we all had in our minds on reading the philosophers stone for the first time. The voice just clicked into place, to me James Marsters is Harry Dresden. I also appreciated the effect that not editing the narrator, to cut out his breathing and the sounds he made when he opened his mouth, had on the story. It legitimately made it seem as though the story was being recorded by dresden after the case. At the same time it also gave me a sense of presence, it was though I was sitting in a room with Marsters casually reading a book which I thouroughly enjoyed.
If you don't read the rest of the review at least read this, I would HIGHLY recommend this book to ANYONE.
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- Gina
- 08-02-17
Interesting creation
Overall this book was pretty enjoyable, it integrated and explained this mixed world that included wizard. It was fairly well-paced and interesting.
The one thing that I disliked about this book was that with the introduction of every single female character he had to mention their appearance, and whether or not they were attractive and feminine and the tone the performer used was very off putting and uncomfortable.
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- Charli
- 21-04-16
A dull story
The book is boring and it's difficult to get into when the mouth noises from the narrator haven't been edited out. There's lots of sighing and lip smacking. It was painful.
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- Bret
- 10-01-20
Written for a younger audience
I tried and wanted to get into this book but just couldn't, the writing style seems to be for a younger audience (I expect mid-teens) and the character's manner is inconsistent.
I gave up half way through, there is a lot going on in the story but very little progression.
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- Kindle Customer
- 14-07-16
Is James Marsters bored?
I love the story, don't get me wrong, but the effort from James Marsters isn't what I expected. I feel like he's whispering his lines in places and theres no effort put in when the character is supposed to be yelling something. the recording isn't great either. Too much swallowing and other mouth noise.
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- Tarny
- 22-02-20
Narrator too hard to listen to
This was a series I enjoyed reading. A likeable hero and interesting characters and plot.
Unfortunately this narrator is monotonous to listen to and puffs and pants between sentences. I couldn’t finish listening to the book.
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- Nick Smith
- 08-09-18
Mostly Dreadful
Some good moments and funny (unintentional) slapstick. But: cliche ridden, mysogonistic, overblown, wooden characters, predictable.
I enjoyed the reading style, even the heavy breathing.
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- Damien
- 31-01-17
Great Listen, Sweet Story, Nice Tight Plot
I can't believe the author wrote this as a joke it's so damn good. can't wait to start the next one
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- Tim Gray
- 01-02-19
Terrible Narration
Unfortunately I couldn't get passed the first chapter of this audiobook because the Narration was so poor. Frustrating even.
The Narrator speaks as if he's about to go to sleep and it becomes difficult to hear some parts. So you have to constantly change the volume. It's like he's just not interested in narrating the story.
The worst part however is the constant loud sounds of his mouth and saliva. It's as though the microphone was as close to his mouth as possible without actually being inside it! This is what made the book impossible to listen to. I still shudder thinking about it.
I really wanted to enjoy this book.
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-07-18
Even the narrator sounds bored.
Too much chauvinist-ing not enough Wizard-ing. This book made the day pass actually Slower, the narrator evidently thinks so too, you can here him sigh repeatedly as if it's a chore.
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