Fool Moon, by Jim Butcher
Fool Moon is the second novel of The Dresden Files by author Jim Butcher. The story revolves around Harry Dresden, a wizard living in present day Chicago. Dresden works with Karrin Murphy, a police officer with the Chicago PD, to help solve cases that seem to have happened by supernatural forces.
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Warning: Spoilers follow
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This book starts six months after the events of the first book. This time, there's a full moon, and bloody paw prints and grisly murders abound. Murphy is under surveillance from Internal Affairs after the events of the first book, seen as an accomplice to Gentleman John through a chain of misunderstandings. To combat this, she enlists Dresden's help on a string of new murders that happen every time there's a full moon. She hopes that Dresden can help her get to the conclusion quicker, thereby impressing IA and getting them off her back. From the word Go, things are weird. FBI comes out of nowhere and takes over the whole investigation. Where there's bloody paw prints and very grisly murder scenes, there are sure to be werewolves. Bob the Skull drops some knowledge on us when he tells us there are 4 different kinds of werewolves: Werewolves (a human being who uses magic to turn himself into a wolf - still keeps their own personality), Hexenwolves (use a talisman holding someone else's magic to turn completely into a wolf), Lycanthropes (in your mind, you're a wolf, but you never physically transform), and Loup-Garou (the deadliest - someone who is cursed to become a wolflike demon every full moon). All four types are represented, with werewolves and lycanthropes being combined into one type of creature. After receiving help from Tera, a lycanthrope/werewolf hybrid, Dresden is set to rescue her fiancé, Harley MacFinn, who is a loup-garou. Since loup-garou are the deadliest kinds of werewolves, everyone's first assumption is that MacFinn is doing all the killings. But then it's brought to light that some of the killings took place either before or after a full moon, and there's still some questions to be answered. In the end, we find out that the FBI agents are all Hexenwolven, and that they committed a lot of the murders. They are trying to kill off John Marcone to get him off the streets of Chicago for good, and trying to simultaneously set up MacFinn and a gang called the Streetwolves (lycanthropes) to take all the blame instead of them. The FBI agents are all taken out, mostly while Dresden becomes a Hexenwolf for a little while, and so is MacFinn, so he can't harm anyone else during one of his killing sprees. Murphy is off the hook from IA after news is spread of how she aided in killing the murderous werewolf, and Dresden leaves us hanging as he contemplates who is trying to kill him.
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There's something about reading about wolves that just puts me to sleep! When I read the Twilight series, I think it was Eclipse where all the wolves talk to each other, and my eyes got tired of that real quick. Same with this book. Not to mention, Dresden is so physically drained for the vast majority of this book. It made me tired to read about him being so tired! I have a few questions at the end, like: what about those romance books for Bob? And where did he go; after he talks about the werewolf types, we never hear from him again. Who is after Dresden, aka, who made the belts? Why didn't his magic work for so long? Why is Murphy so weird in this book? The climax of the book was too long for me. Butcher revealed everything a little quicker in the first book, but I will say I sincerely appreciate the nice little bow he wraps everything up with at the end. I hope he does that again in the next one. Opening: OMG. Ending: TL;DR. 4/5.
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Grave Peril, by Jim Butcher
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