Take one of the major changes, Harry becoming the Winter Knight. Almost everything here has been foreshadowed, to some degree or another, much of it for a very long time. Yet I didn't see the changes in Changes as all that surprising.
I think all fans feel that way about reviewers who dislike a book. and I can't help but feel like they've missed something.
Complaints that they feel random and unexpected, that the characters are inconsistent, that there are never any big consequences to Harry's mistakes. Reading the dismissive reviews of Changes, I'm seeing a lot of disappointment over the changes. More than delivering a plot, Butcher tells a story, which means there's a theme to accompany it. Part of that is pragmatic re-reading the first eleven books in quick succession depletes the number of ways I know how to say, "Good story! Great characters! Go Harry!" But I do feel that the Dresden Files is more than just formula urban fantasy/mystery. Come closer, and I will tell you how the blackest, bleakest, bitterest moments of life reveal the best-and the worst-of humanity.īutcher alters the Dresdenverse in a legion of ways with Changes I won't waste time enumerating them here-after all, if you care, you've already read the book, yes? Besides, we'll come to them in due time as we discuss what they mean for Harry and those closest to him.įor the past few reviews, I've riffed a lot on the sweeping themes I see beneath the arc of the Dresden Files. So it's just me, the people who have read it, and the people who won't read it (apathetic people and haters alike), yes? Well come closer, and I shall tell you a tale of one man against a universe that, while humourless, has a fitting sense of irony. If you haven't read the book and at all plan to read it, turn back now. There are definitely changes as such, the spoiler warning here is not to be taken lightly. The title of this book, breaking as it does Jim Butcher's pattern of two words of equal length for each previous title in the Dresden Files, says it all.
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