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  • Skin Game

  • A Novel of the Dresden Files, Book 15
  • By: Jim Butcher
  • Narrated by: James Marsters
  • Length: 15 hrs and 49 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (30,696 ratings)

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Skin Game

By: Jim Butcher
Narrated by: James Marsters
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Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, is about to have a very bad day.…

Because as Winter Knight to the Queen of Air and Darkness, Harry never knows what the scheming Mab might want him to do. Usually, it’s something awful.

He doesn’t know the half of it.…

Mab has just traded Harry's skills to pay off one of her debts. And now he must help a group of supernatural villains - led by one of Harry's most dreaded and despised enemies, Nicodemus Archleone - to break into the highest-security vault in town, so that they can then access the highest-security vault in the Nevernever.

It's a smash-and-grab job to recover the literal Holy Grail from the vaults of the greatest treasure hoard in the supernatural world - which belongs to the one and only Hades, Lord of the freaking Underworld and generally unpleasant character. Worse, Dresden suspects that there is another game afoot that no one is talking about. And he's dead certain that Nicodemus has no intention of allowing any of his crew to survive the experience. Especially Harry.

Dresden's always been tricky, but he's going to have to up his backstabbing game to survive this mess - assuming his own allies don’t end up killing him before his enemies get the chance.…

©2014 Jim Butcher (P)2014 Penguin Audio
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Another great Dresden story

Butcher does it again. Another great chapter in the Dresden files series. An exciting twist as the story unfolds and develops with a heist. One of my favorites so far where the you get a great look into the heart of Dresden and what matters most. Other favorite characters get some great moments and growth as well.

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Another Amazing Dresden Files

Thank you Jim, another great story! Characters we love and love to hate and everything in between.

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Automatic purchase..... Always!

I do love this series. After every book I feel very satisfied. Wonderful characters, stories always entertaining and new and the narration is perfect. If you enjoy fantasy/paranormal/urban fantasy, you will enjoy these. Not only worth the credit, I've even paid full membership price when I didn't have any credits. Jim Butcher's Dresden Files is an auto download for me just as Mayberry's Ledger stories are. Fun, action, great entertainment!

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A Highpoint in quality for the series

I just finished the book a few minutes ago, and I have to say that I am impressed. I have one or two nitpicks with the story. Overall this is a good book, a very good book. If you got a little tired after the last book, never fear. This story is easily in the top 5 best Dresden books, maybe top 3. Spoilers below.
Nitpicks: 1. I wanted NickyD or Polonious Lartessa to die. They've been baddies in so many books now that their constantly failing makes them seem incompetent. They're no Team Rocket, but seriously they never get ahead. If one of them died it would have progressed the story in an interesting fashion, giving the slayer glory and forcing the remaining Denarians to double down in all future appearances.
2. The twist. I don't mind that their was a twist at the end, but I would have liked better foreshadowing that it occurred instead of on the spot revealing of character motivations. I don't want to describe this too in depth, but one character had an awfully convenient change of heart. More foreshadowing would have helped.
3. For the third book in a row Dresden is still whining about his deal with Mab. GET OVER IT ALREADY. I don't like whiners.
4. Even though a year passed since the last book, everyone recalls it just like it was yesterday. To better explain this, all character relationships seem to have been put in stasis for an entire year, waiting for this story to take place to further develop those relationships. This isn't how people actually work.
5. Why does anyone trust NickyD at all? I mean seriously everyone knows he's a fallen angel. Who would trust him? I certainly don't think the assembled baddies who were hired would have trusted NickyD enough to go on this venture.

Looking past these nitpicks I am extremely pleased with this book. I would have liked the book to be shorter, taking away some pre-bank vault scenes, but besides that it really was great.

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Excellent!

While still dripping with a few too many feelings, this was Dresden at his best!

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Butcher continues to build toward Armageddon

What made the experience of listening to Skin Game the most enjoyable?

First off I have to say that James Marsters is phenomenal in his performance of these characters. I have bought both the hardcover book and the audible recording and I love listening to Marsters do his thing every time!

What did you like best about this story?

Jim Butcher continues to build a fantastic series that makes you wonder how many books this could actually go on for... but it really does get better from book 3 on through 15 now. Butcher has said he intends the series to be 20-ish books ending with a Apocalyptic trilogy, so no doubt as we've seen things are starting to get even worse for our favorite wizard and Skin Game continues to help set the stage for what should be an amazing ending to this incredible series.

Which scene was your favorite?

As for my favorite scene in the book... it would have to be the one where Harry is talking about someone's dog named Spot... I'll leave it at that so as not to spoil anything. =)

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Overall another incredible book from Butcher and well worth the wait. If you can't get enough and don't know what to do while waiting for Book 16 to come out, do yourself a favor and read Butcher's other series, The Codex of Alera. Fair warning, much like Dresden files the first 2 books are a little slower (still good), but by book 3 the story takes off and becomes great. It is "only" a 6 book series, but well worth your time!

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Worthy addition to an increasingly landmark series

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Harry's character arc is one of the most impressive feats in genre fiction. It is why I adore this series, and Skin Game is no exception. Harry continues to develop as a man, father, friend, mentor, leader, and protector. He continues to learn from his mistakes, learns to trust others, begins to allow others into his life and become vulnerable to them. Jim Butcher does a superb job reweaving aspects of previous stories into the narrative, enriching the fabric. The majority of this story is a caper which is seemingly divorced from the primary foreboding conflict in the series, but does serve to complete Harry's return to Chicago, friends and family and to acknowledge and nudge the story back toward the conflict revealed in Cold Days. Butcher gives each character a moment to shine, to reveal themselves and the growth they have experienced since we last saw them. No one is static in this universe, and that is unique and rewarding.

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Excellent

Can't wait for the next book in the series, I want to see how the new character develope.

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Good even the second time.

Good series. it doesn't get the respect it deserves. I read the book for the second time and still great.

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great book like all of the Dresden files books

just a great book too read. can't wait for the next book peace talks just read it

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