Jim Butcher - The Dresden Files 12 - ChangesThe Dresden Files series is alive and still fantastic. In Changes, we see some very big changes in Harry Dresden's life. Since it comes out in the first paragraph of the book it can't be considered a spoiler, but Harry finds out that he has a daughter and she is being held by the vampires of the Red Court.
Everything Harry does in the book is driven by his need to save his daughter's life. He is desperate and very angry. His ex-girlfriend Susan, the half-vampire and mother of his child, comes back into Harry's life with this good news/bad news scenario. Harry's friends come to his aid, and bargains are made to give Harry the power and knowledge he needs to defeat the Red Court.
Butcher is the master of the cliffhanger. Every chapter ends with either a smart-aleck remark by Harry or a suspenseful twist to the plot. I swear I can hear melodramatic duh-duh-duhhhh at the end of most chapters. As each chapter is relatively short I find myself stunned and stumbling from chapter to chapter as the plot rapidly unfolds and magic and action explodes at every turn. When I reluctantly had to put the book down (at a chapter's end) I eagerly anticipated when I could pick it up again.
The final climactic battle is topped off by a heart-wrenching final resolution. There were some big changes in the Dresden Files world in this book. I would have been quite happy, however, to not have to suffer Butcher's last cliffhanger.
With the next book, Side Jobs: Stories From the Dresden Files--due out October 2010, not continuing the series arc, we'll probably have to wait until mid-to-late-2011 to pick up where Changes left off (book 13 will be titled Ghost).
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