I’ve been wanting to read Jim Butcher’s The Dresden Files for a while now but have been unable to get hold of Storm Front, the first book in the series.  I’m not willing to start a series anywhere else as at the first book, but I decided to compromise when I spotted Side Jobs, a collection of short stories from the Dresden universe.

For those of you who have never heard of Harry Dresden (philistines!), he is a wizard.  He is also a private investigator.  And he lives in modern-day Chicago.  So, we have a wizard/PI in Chicago (who is also a bit of a chauvinist), chasing down vampires, ghouls, faeries, and the like.  He also catches regular bad guys, so he supplements his magic spells with a revolver.  He has a talking skull called Bob.  He has a giant dog called Mouse.  He has a half-brother who’s a…no, that might be a spoiler. Continue reading “KokkieH Reviews Side Jobs – Stories From The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher” →