Summer Knight

by Jim Butcher

No cover — Jim Butcher: Summer Knight (2010, Little, Brown Book Group Limited)

416 pages

English language

Published Dec. 21, 2010 by Little, Brown Book Group Limited.

ISBN:: 978-0-7481-1609-6

(7 reviews)

Ever since his girlfriend left town to deal with her newly acquired taste for blood, Harry Dresden has been down and out in Chicago. He can't pay his rent. He's alienating his friends. He can't even recall the last time he took a shower.

The only professional wizard in the phone book has become a desperate man.

And just when it seems things can't get any worse, in saunters the Winter Queen of Faerie. She has an offer Harry can't refuse if he wants to free himself of the supernatural hold his faerie godmother has over him — and hopefully end his run of bad luck. All he has to do is find out who murdered the Summer Queen's right-hand man, the Summer Knight, and clear the Winter Queen's name.

It seems simple enough, but Harry knows better than to get caught in the middle of faerie politics. Until he …

The only professional wizard in the phone book has become a desperate man.

It seems simple enough, but Harry knows better than to get caught in the middle of faerie politics. Until he finds out that the fate of the entire world rests on his solving this case.

No pressure or anything...

11 editions

Sean Randall reviewed Summer Knight by Jim Butcher (Dresden Files #4)

Review of 'Summer Knight' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

"You foil a Faerie Queen, survive your own execution. Get
away from certain death. And get stuck up a freaking tree."

Harry Dresden always has something on his plate, and this time, it's the fallout from last time. There was lots of action, gore and mystical going on as ever - I liked the bit about aeroplanes too - "you can only breathe because someone built you a
really good tin can that has seams tight enough to hold in a decent amount of air".

A fun series, although there's a lot of darkness and blood and violence in there too. Not something to keep one up nights, perhaps, or at least not one of my sensitivities - and lucky, too, or else I'd get no sleep at all.