White Night Book Review: Another copy of Storm Front

Gabriela Jessica
Nov 1 · 3 min read

White Night is the ninth book in the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher. It follows the story of a wizard detective named Harry Dresden. In this book, he’s asked to solve a chain of murders. Strangely the murderer only targets female practitioner and it is clear that the murderer has something to say to Harry because the murderer leaves a message in their latest crime scene. Harry, of course, takes up the case and unexpectedly catches his brother, Thomas, being mixed up in this grizzly crime. It also looks like the Red Court is involved. Elaine, Harry’s first love and ex-girlfriend, shows up to help the Wiccan women.

Jim Butcher is quite well-known in the fantasy literature world. He’s an American author and his most popular series is the Dresden Files series. He has also written a Spider-Man novel, entitled The Darkest Hours, in 2006. Jim Butcher received a nomination for the Hugo Award for Best Novel for Skin Game, and a nomination for the Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story for Welcome to the Jungle.

Like any other Butcher’s book, White Night has Butcher’s iconic writing style that is witty and humorous. Though some may say that the prose is dry and rather simplistic. But I will argue that is the strength of Butcher’s writing style. Frankly, I’m not very fond of overly complex and ‘flowery’ prose and perhaps that is why I’m a fan of this series while others are not. Here’s an excerpt to show you how funny this book can be “There was a sound like a human yawn, and then the skull turned slightly toward me and asked, “What’s up, boss?” “Evil’s afoot.” “Well, sure,” Bob said, “because it refuses to learn the metric system. Otherwise, it’d be up to a meter by now.” Although this book is filled with humor and jokes there are times where it can be deep and honest about the world. For example, “What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?” or “But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.” Reading White Night is certainly entertaining but I do admit it can be rather unoriginal at times. If we compare it with previous books in the series there’s not much difference that we can find. Harry gets a case and he solves it. Although there are some interesting twists here and there it doesn’t change the fact that this book is uncomfortably similar to the previous books. Still, for a long time fan, reading this book isn’t a bad way to spend your time.

I can’t exactly recommend this book to anyone since this book is the ninth book in the series but after reading this book I’m surer than ever to recommend the series as a whole to people. I think this book will fit the taste of teens who likes fantasy but prefer something different from the usual high or epic fantasy like lord of the rings because the Dresden Files is a unique mix of fantasy, mystery, and a dash of real/modern world.

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