Name: Summer Knight
ISBN: 9780739465813

Jim Butcher

Summer knight: Despondent over the loss of his vampire girlfriend, private detective and wizard-for-hire Harry Dresden undertakes a mission for the Winter Queen of Faerie to find out who murdered the Summer Queen's right-hand man, the Summer Knight, and clear the Winter Queen of the crime.

Summer Knight

In the fourth novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series featuring everyone's favorite wizard for hire, Harry Dresden is suckered into the tangled—and dangerous—affairs of Faerie... Ever since his girlfriend left town to deal with her newly acquired taste for blood, Harry Dresden has been down and out in Chicago. He can’t pay his rent. He’s alienating his friends. He can’t even recall the last time he took a shower. The only professional wizard in the phone book has become a desperate man. And just when it seems things can’t get any worse, in saunters the Winter Queen of Faerie. She has an offer Harry can’t refuse if he wants to free himself of the supernatural hold his faerie godmother has over him—and hopefully end his run of bad luck. All he has to do is find out who murdered the Summer Queen’s right-hand man, the Summer Knight, and clear the Winter Queen’s name. It seems simple enough, but Harry knows better than to get caught in the middle of faerie politics. Until he finds out that the fate of the entire world rests on his solving this case. No pressure or anything...

Luke Harkness

A really brilliant fantasy series now

Despite the unnecessary over description of women's physical attributes whenever he meets them and how every woman is "the most beautiful", I enjoy everything else about this series. I enjoy how it has a wonderfully imagined lore from clearly a very creative mind and I love Harry Dresden's laid-back and nonchalant reaction to everything around him. It's very unique and unlike anything I've read before. I know I have a long way to go, but I very much look forward to reading the follow-up books.

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Sarah Sammis

Needs Nac Mac Feegles. Obvious quote was obvious. 

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Meet Harry Dresden, Chicago's first (and only) Wizard P.I. Turns out the 'everyday' world is full of strange and magical things - and most of them don't play well with humans. That's where Harry comes in. Since his girlfriend left town to deal with her newly acquired taste for blood, Harry's been down and out. He can't pay his rent. He's alienating his friends. He can't recall his last shower. Then when things are at their worst, the Winter Queen of Faerie saunters in with an offer Harry can't refuse. All he has to do is find out who murdered the Summer Knight, the Summer Queen's right-hand man, and clear the Winter Queen's name. It seems simple, but Faerie politics seldom work out that way. Then Harry discovers the fate of the entire world rests on this case. So no pressure . . . Magic - it can get a guy killed.

Wynter

Nast

This book leverages on the previous ones and tells a delightful and thrilling adventure. I'm glad I decided to dive into the Dresden Files. (Try the audiobook version)

Ryan LaFerney

Harry Dresden is up to his neck in foes. This time Dresden's foes are, well, everybody. The vampiric Red Court, who want revenge for the events in Grave Peril; his own White Council of wizards, run by the usual cowardly appeasers and bureaucratic weasels; and last but not least, the Sidhe, the creatures of the fey, whose opposing houses of Summer and Winter keep one another equally balanced so as to avoid too much power in any one set of hands. But the balance has been disrupted. Someone has murdered the Summer Knight, that realm's champion to its queen, Titania. The Winter Queen, Mab, has been blamed, and she makes Harry an offer he pretty much can't refuse: if he helps her to find the Knight's murderer and clear her name, she'll help him. All Harry has to do is help avert an all-out war between Summer and Winter. No problem!

Like usual, spending time with Dresden and his wizard problems turns out to quite fun, and quite enthralling. Butcher - for as much as he known for making escapist noir/urban fantasy - is a craftsmen of character. He's also great at employing action. It's never too gritty and has a lot of humor. It's that careful balance between suspense and wit where both can work that Butcher has a true gift for. Humor in these kinds of fantasy novels can all too easily call attention to itself — The Dresden novels, for the most part, avoid the scourge of postmodernist pretension. 

Read for wizards, fey, and Chicago-above-Chicago, hilarious hijinks, and the hardboiled fantasy noir. Stay for the random fight inside a Wal-Mart.

Sally Salinas

I heart Harry Dresden!!! Just like the shenanigans he seems to get into. Loved the Alphas being in this one. Can't wait to start the next....

Jacalyn Boggs

I really enjoyed the courts of Summer and Winter Sidhe... I think Dresden nailed how the Sidhe are not the cheerfully sprites we think of today thanks to Disney and whatnot making faeries all cute and adorable. Oh they are cute and adorable but that's just to sucker you in.

sophia n

this is definitely my favorite book in the series so far, was almost at 4 stars, but then ... we got this old girlfriend (and current??? girlfriend???) drama, and not to be a hater but i'm gonna just knock off a whole star for them lol. just such weak female characters, they're not in any way bad but they're also not in any way good lmfao

anyway this was a lot of fun just like the other 3 and i feel like the story is beginning to pick up here, getting to finally see the council, and some really fun dynamics with the faerie courts which i super enjoyed, especially the climactic fight. despite the frustration with the heteronormativity of it all, and how i CAN see that harry's character is developing it's just sloooooow af, it's not really souring my experience or taking me too much out of the story. i'm just having a damn good time, and even though i'm still stuck at 3 stars 4 books in to this series, i'm not upset about it at all and am definitely continuing

Sonja H

Momentan lese ich wieder mein Lieblingsgenre "Urban Fantasy" und wenn ich mich nicht entscheiden kann oder eine sichere Wahl suche, greife ich auf die Reihe "Dresden Files" von Jim Butcher zurück. 
Harry Dresden ist ein Held, wie ich ihn mag: er ist überwiegend ein "ganz normaler Mann", aber in den entscheidenden Momenten eben auch ein mächtiger Zauberer voller Sarkasmus, einer nicht immer gesunden Neugierde und hart im Nehmen. Denn seine Abenteuer verlaufen meist recht turbulent und enden meist sehr schmerzhaft für ihn. 

Ja, man könnte sagen, Dresden ist ein wenig ein Macho, doch er macht keinen Unterschied zwischen Mann und Frau, wenn es darum geht, ihnen schnippische Antworten zu liefern. Eine gehörige Portion Respekt zeigt er außerdem vor den Feen, denn er weiß, dass deren guten Taten nicht mit Glitzer und Sternchen kommen, sondern mit knallharten Deals.
Ich weiß es sehr zu schätzen, dass Butcher gerade das Feenvolk nicht verweichlicht, wie es in so vielen anderen Büchern geschieht, sondern dass er sich an die dunkleren Mythen hält und die Feen als eher berechnend und hinterhältig darstellt, vor denen man immer auf der Hut sein muss, denn bei ihnen hat alles seinen Preis. 

Dem Autor gelingt es außerdem gut, die Balance zwischen "ernsthafter Action" und "humorvoller Unterhaltung" zu wahren. In den grimmigsten Momenten gelingt es Harry immer wieder, eine Bemerkung zu machen, die mir ein Lachen entlockt, die aber dennoch nicht die Atmosphäre der Szene zerstört. 

In "Summer Knight" passiert wie gewohnt sehr viel und sehr kurz hintereinander. Hin und wieder verlaufe ich mich in all den Ideen, die der Autor in seinen Geschichten verbaut hat, aber das kenne ich bereits aus den anderen Büchern, weiß aber auch, dass ich den roten Fanden wiederfinden werde. Mich stört hier die zeitweise Verwirrung auch nicht sehr, denn ich fühle mich von Anfang bis Ende gut unterhalten.

Auch Buch vier der Serie bietet ein solides Lesevergnügen für alle, die Urban Fantasy mögen.

I'm having so much fun with this series! :D

This has got to be the best book so far. I absolutely loved the characters and the plot. I guess I have a weakness for well-put-together faeries.

Not much to really say, though. I hope Elaine has some future appearance in the story, because I thought that she was the only (very, very small) flaw in this book. I just wanted her to be developed a bit more! I mean, Butcher barely spent half a page on Elaine and Harry's history before diving straight back into the action.

Anyway, I loved it! I'll be reading the next book really soon!

Luna

harry with murphy >>> harry even looking at another woman

Tom Turner

Back On Form

Dresden Files is back on form with this entry. I still feel it's yet to find its feet as an entire entity, but it is definitely getting there slowly. Now we have more recurring characters from previous books, as well as knowledge that things are not necessarily reset and there are real consequences fit the actions in previous books - unlike a lot of episodic series out there. - it's really begining to flesh out.

JacQueline Roe

As all of The Dresden Files, this was another fun, fast-paced supernatural detective book. I read them (even though there are things in them I might object to) because their pacing is great & I love how in this long-running series develops the characters & has such amazing world-building.

Melea Mullican

7.43 on CAWPILE

While this book still carries many of the Dresden files problems, they’re getting more mild and the books are getting more enjoyable. I’m definitely looking forward to continuing and seeing the plot become more in depth and Dresden grow a little.

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