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(this one is for papersky, who still thinks I have good taste)

Jim Butcher, Dead Beat
Roc (2005) ISBN: 0-451-46027-8
Score: 4

Seventh book of the Dresden Files series; this week Harry (as the country's only openly practicing wizard) has to save Chicago from a bunch of necromancers. And most of the previously introduced supernatural elements (werewolves, faeries, vampires (all three types), and a fallen angel) get involved too. As usual, lots of people beat him up and he causes a whole lot of damage (not all of it intentional), but the ending was slightly more upbeat than normal, perhaps even Too Good to be True. Since this is the first hardcover of the series, the author tried to make it understandable to new readers, which mainly means that it spoils the endings of all the previous books (except the first, Storm Front), so I guess I should stop telling people it's ok to skip books two and four.

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