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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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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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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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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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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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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