Also, unlike most of the other books, it isn’t really a flurry of horrible adversaries and situations showing up at once, but more about the internal issues with which Harry grapples. The characters established over a dozen books also pay off in the in-jokes and characteristic humor, and the effect a secondary character's fate can have on the reader. I think that is the payoff of the extensive world-building of the earlier books. There does seem to be less in the way of explaining the mechanics of magic (aside from the usual refreshing of details, like “magic has trouble with water,” or “wizards ruin technology” ), and more character-driven, rather than magic-driven plot threads than prior books. I think this book proves the utility of the same, in that a lot of the enjoyment of the book rests on having more than a dozen novels of world-built background in the details of the Dresden-verse and how it works. A while ago, on this or the wotmania equivalent board, someone asked about what the point of worldbuilding was in fantasy. It is possible that upon retroactive consideration, this volume also improves GS by proving to have consummated issues and details brought forth in that one.Īnyway, while I am not qualified to discuss the literary merits, there is one point I would like to talk about. The Fourteenth Book of the Dresden Files is a definite improvement on its predecessor, Ghost Story, which was more of a transitional book as the situation of the character has undergone a radical alteration of his setting and status.

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