Blood Rites by Jim Butcher
(Book #6 of The Dresden Files series)
Rating: 🍁🍁🍁
Let me start by saying that this series is awesome. It has all the elements of urban fantasy that I enjoy: deadpan humour, interesting world-building, tragic heroes, and fascinating supporting characters. Mr. Butcher does a great job of setting up the issues experienced in one book in the books preceding it, so that it feels like they're all part of the on-going narrative of Harry's life rather than episodic highlights.
That being said, this was not my favourite book in that narrative. Aside from the nit-picky stuff that would have been fixed by a good editing (at one point toward the end, Harry and the people with him eat breakfast twice in a 10 minute period), there were several times I wanted to bash Harry over the head for his over-the-top, almost neanderthalic chivalry. I get that he's chivalrous, it's part of his character and so on. The guy has mommy issues. Fine. But you're telling me that when someone has a gun pointed at his head and is admittedly intending to shoot him with said gun, he'd hesitate to hit that person because it was a woman? Really? How on earth did he manage to survive this long?
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