Ha! well, i just finished the first one and rushed out to get this one. Really enjoyed it and Harry is always making a mistake and bumbling something up.
Harry is not a superhero and he does cry and try too hard, and that is really endearing.
I would like the author to feature Bob the Skull and Toot and the cat Mister more in the near future.. Bob is very amusing.....

Humor and magic run rampant in Fool Moon, the 2nd installment in Jim Butcher's fantasy series featuring Harry Dresden, Wizard Detective. This book picks up a few months after the events of the first novel and begins with Harry once again being called in by the regular police force to consult on a case. This time, Harry must fight werewolves, and there are lots of magic scenes, and a brand new theory on werewolfishness(?) that will entertain fans of the genre. From that point the plot gets pretty convoluted, and doesn't deserve much rehashing since it seems to have been cobbled together to hold the great action scenes, and obligatory sex scene, together.

An enjoyable but flawed book. If you don't begrudge the book the flaws, you'll have a great escapist time reading.

My daughter loved the book. She read all four of the series. These books are about supernatural forces, creatures, and events. I suppose any teenager would like them.

I love Butcher's take on werewolves in this second book in his series. As if Dresden doesn't have enough trouble trying to help track a serial killer for his friend at the Special Investigation branch of the CPD, he has to cope with the involvment of several groups/gangs of werewolves along the way.

Again, Harry Dresden blunders his way into a situation that he feels that he must cope with, wizard that he is, but is way over his expectations. And, of course, things are not what they seem. But with the help of some silver bullets and his own wizardly knowlege, well, people still get badly hurt. This is no "G" rated series where people just get knocked over after all.

I have to say that I love how consistant the "special effects" are in this series. And I love the characters and the way they interact. Dresden may be blind to the obvious at times, and mess up regularly, but that just makes him human like the rest of us.

I liked Storm Front well enough that it didn't take a lot of convincing to get Fool Moon, too - I do remember, however, that somebody told me that the series gets better with each new installment and so I opened up #2 in the Dresden Files ready to do a comparative analysis.

And it really is better. The voice is stronger, the difficulties more insurmountable, every last character is human, the setting of Chicago and the description of the magic are equally palpable.

Butcher maintains a pitch of tension throughout the novel which is positively excruciating. You know how in most books the tension builds and builds and then things come to a head, there's a climax, then a nice neat denoument? Fool Moon hits the crisis point at about page 10 and stays that way until the bitter end. It's incredible.

Plus, Butcher hasn't at all lost his sense of the absurd. Dresden's outfits are even more ridiculous than in Storm Front (which sounds impossible enough already) and the book is peppered with witty banter throughout.

Lastly, and maybe this is just me, but there's something kind of touching about a male author who writes these books in the first person about a tough old dude who has feelings and notices a girl's haircut. It's sweet.