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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Roc; Reprint edition (3 March 2015)
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Soumendu Das

Back to what Dresden does best! Parkour!

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 11 July 2020

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This instalment in the Dresden chronicles bring back the charm of the old Harry and company to some extent. Harry is back here to what he does best, beating up the villains from the supernatural with magic and of course jumping higher than ever shouting "Parkour"! :)

Though a fun read but Harry entering into Hades' vault? Seriously??? Our wizard meets and shakes hand with the Greek god too! Good to see the old lot getting the meat of the story here with Karrin Murphy, Waldo Butters, Andi, Bob back in the game. Michael re-enters the story, the old and prudent Knight of the Sword with Charity and the kids. Best part of the book is where Harry finally gets to meet Maggie, his 5 years old daughter who so warmly wants him back in her life. Long live the wizard! Next Instalment "Peace Talks" awaited :)

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 30 May 2014

If the Dresden Files series has taught Harry Dresden anything, it's that no matter how bad things get, they can always get a LOT worse. Embroider that on a pillow.

And after a few books of solid suck (not in book quality, just Harry's quality of life), "Skin Game" returns everyone's favorite noir wizard to action in Chicago... except he's working with the bad guys this time. Jim Butcher is in fine form here, mixing complex moral questions with ice-and-fire-slinging magic -- and bringing in some truly startling changes to Harry's life.

Harry is not happy when he finds out his next job as the Winter Knight. He's being loaned out to Nicodemus, leader of the Denarians, who is planning the ultimate heist: stealing a mysterious object from the vault of Hades. And sadly, Harry doesn't have the option of refusing, since he has a strange brain parasite that Mab will only remove if he does her bidding.

So he and Murphy join a ragtag team that Nicodemus is assembling: a warlock and her mercenary partner, an expert thief, a vast Bigfoot-like thug and... well, Goodman Grey. No, you don't find out what or who he is until the end. But the heist is instantly threatened by the Fomor and their Octokongs, Nicodemus' angry estranged wife, and... well, each other.

Yes, nobody in this merry band of misfits trusts or likes each other, and Harry knows that Nicodemus will find a way to betray him soon -- or even better, snare him into disgracing Mab. And even if he can survive long enough to actually participate in the heist, he'll have to outwit the most devious of the Denarians -- which might be a tall order even for a Warden/Winter Knight.

"Skin Game" is the end of a story arc that began in "Changes," bringing Harry back to some semblance of his old life and resolving the issues he's had ever since -- particularly the massive changes he's undergone by becoming the Winter Knight. A lot of urban fantasy characters have those tedious "am I a monster?" moments, which don't last long and are usually concluded with the protagonist being assured that they are just fine. See Anita Blake for a prime example.

But when it happens to Harry, it makes perfect sense -- not only did he kill his ex-girlfriend, but he's the lackey of a cruel ice queen and being loaned out to a literal demon of hell. Not only does he doubt himself, but some of his friends are worried about what he may become. And Butcher doesn't assure us that Harry is innately good, and that whatever he does will be okay. Instead, he twists Harry's angst into a powerful message about personal choices and human limitations. Harry might be corrupted, but he also might triumph.

Well, back to the fun stuff. "Skin Game" is the closest to a "normal" Dresden Files adventure since "Turn Coat" -- lots of explosions, grotesque monsters (octokongs!), and Harry being self-destructively snarky to all the wrong supernatural creatures ("Walk away and I won't call the Orkin man"). Butcher also manages to throw in some truly shocking twists that leave you baffled as to how things will work out -- and then follows those twists with even MORE shocking twists that will leave you grinning like an idiot.

And after three books of non-stop misery and craziness, Harry seems to be settling back into his old self -- his new battle cry is "Parkour!" and he's back to making pop-culture cracks all the time. However, he's also grown a lot, especially in his love for the daughter he's never even spoken to -- and he has a new relationship that promises to be, um, interesting.

A number of Dresden Files favorites are here as well -- Murphy, the heroically saintly Michael, Butters, Uriel, Mab -- as well as a few new faces that will hopefully reappear in the future (Hades, who seems like a guy Harry could have beer with). One character who is sadly scarce here is Bob -- I can only hope that Butcher brings him back in full in the books that follow.

What's the problem? Well, the semi-final climactic battle involves Butcher revealing that he pulled a switcheroo on the audience... which would be fine if the story weren't from Harry's limited first-person perspective. We're basically in his head, so earlier withholding information that he knows just doesn't work. Not fair!

"Skin Game" effectively wraps up a dark story arc for Harry, while sowing the seeds of adventures in future books -- and with a book this excellent, we can only hope that Mr. Butcher brings us more Dresden Files soon.

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Sucked right in, can't get out

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 21 December 2016

I can't describe with words just how absorbed into these books I get. I become a part of Dresden's world every time I read one, and finishing a book leaves me desolate, because it's over. Write quicker, Butcher.

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An INCREDIBLE read, with plenty of twists and cool heist plot!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 27 January 2023

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Skin Game by Jim Butcher was an incredible read. I don’t think we’ve ever seen Harry Dresden so smart! Out of all the scrapes he’s been in, this one had me the most nervous and unsure of what was to come.

It’s beginning to get difficult to write spoiler-free reviews, now that I’m 15 books in, so I’ll keep this brief.

Parkour!

That might seem like a silly subheading (and it is), but I want to talk about character. For me, this series has been all about character - we love to see our favourites pop up in the next book, like Butters, Michael, Molly and Marcone.

A few years have passed since Cold Days and Harry Dresden has been keeping to himself on the island. This created an interesting, new dynamic between our wizard and his closest friends.

Murphy is badass as usual, and only gets cooler with each entry in the series. I always love seeing Butters, but he had a few moments in this book that were so special. Michael and the carpenters warmed my heart, and to see them again was great.

With each book, Jim Butcher grows and improves as a writer, even after so many entries. His character work has gotten so good and is one of the main reasons I keep returning to this series - I have never read so many books by one author before.

The Stakes Keep Rising

Harry Dresden is known for getting himself into a lot of trouble - or at least trouble seems to find him regularly and he narrowly survives (most of the time). Skin Game might not have been as huge as Changes, but it didn’t need to be - I still felt like the stakes were higher.

The heist format certainly helped, especially with him working alongside people who are normally the villains. I felt on edge at all times, much like Dresden did, wondering if one of the people around him would turn and attempt to kill him at any moment.

Continuing with that thought on the plot, as always there were plenty of twists, and most of them were fantastic. So many that I should have seen, but didn’t, and they are always the best. There is one twist that I think didn’t quite work because there was no hint of it at all throughout the book, but it didn’t spoil my enjoyment of the story.

Final Thoughts

Skin Game is a fantastic entry in The Dresden Files and I am excited to catch up and start waiting for the next books with everyone else soon. I have been reading these books for almost 3 years now and they’ve been incredible - I’ll almost be sad to have finished them!

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J. McDonald

Skin Game: 15 (Dresden Files).

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 15 July 2020

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I don't know if it was due to the long lay-off I had from the series before I read this (I couldn't afford the hardback when it came out and I've only had time to read it now due to lockdown) but this one didn't grab me as much as the previous novels; it's essentially based around a heist scenario, as Mab forces Dresden to work with some of the unsavoury characters from previous episodes; all the stability of locations and the team have changed, though most put in an appearance or are referenced – it does seem like a crossroads or stocktaking point in the series.
That's not to say that it wasn't enjoyable – Dresden novels are always worth the read – but it did feel like a marking of time, with little advancement in the overall scheme of things; I did miss the familiarity of Harry's old place and the regular characters who only play small parts in this one – if at all.
It also isn't a book for the newcomer – I had to refresh my memory at times when reading this and I've read them all so far.
Still, there's “Brief Cases” to be read, and “Peace Talks” on the way, so I'm not ready by any means to give up on Harry just yet.

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Charles Green

A Return To Top Form For Harry & Co.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 17 April 2015

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Although I have enjoyed every one of Jim Butcher's 14 previous 'Dresden Files' novels, my one significant criticism of the more recent entries in the series is that the big finales have sometimes gone somewhat OTT. The trend started with Harry Dresden riding a zombie dinosaur though downtown Chicago, but it reached its peak with the massive island assault at the end of vol. 14, Cold Front, which became an all-out supernatural battle in the middle of lake Michigan.

I have nothing against big set pieces per se, but for me the Dresden Files' increasing over reliance on them robbed the series of some of it original appeal. After all, as the 'Dresden Files' sub-title suggests, this was originally an urban fantasy take on the film-noir Detective series; Philip Marlowe with magic if you like. However, over time and as Jim Butcher expanded the alternative universe in which the stories are set, the books have become less mysteries with a magical spin and more grand fantasy epics. They were still enjoyable, but some of what made the early novels such as Storm Front so great for me had been lost.

I am happy to report therefore, that with Skin Game Jim Butcher seems to have rediscovered some of the old magic, if you will pardon the expression, by returning Harry back to a smaller scale adventure. The ever expanding universe is still there and there are still moments that make me wonder how the general public could still possibly be in denial about the existence of magic (bronze lion statue coming to life in downtown Chicago anyone?), but there are no massed battles between supernatural armies, the stakes aren't world-changing and the central cast is kept to a reasonably tight number of players.

Moreover Skin Game is very much a 'crime novel' with a robbery, albeit a supernatural one, central to the plot. Its also plays homage to the series' noir-ish origins and inspirations by having more crosses and double crosses than the Maltese Falcon and featuring all the staples of a good pulp Detective novel, including femme-fatales, hulking henchmen (or hench-monsters in this case) and mob-bosses.

It also features an ending that for once feels like a proper, satisfying ending, with minimal loose ends left hanging. No, Jim Butcher doesn't wrap up every sub-plot in the wider Dresden-verse and I wouldn't expect him to in the course of one novel, but the novel's central plot is brought to a pretty definitive conclusion, there are no cliff-hangers, and many of the series heroes and their interpersonal relationships are left in far better places than when the book began.

All of which serves to make Skin Game the most enjoyable Dresden File for a long time and has restored my slightly waning faith in the series. Next time I will not wait nearly a year to pick up the latest volume in the series, and I will hope that Jim Butcher manages to maintain Harry and his Friends' return to form.

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Richard Wright

Reboot

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 19 June 2014

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Harry Dresden and I almost had a parting of the ways after the previous book. After following his adventures in one massive binge, book after book, I was sure the law of diminishing returns had firmly kicked in. My ennui for the series wasn't aided by the fact that the author had effectively dropped a bomb into Harry's world, blowing all the familiar elements of his life to the winds in an explosive cataclysm. Without those elements, I felt, the books lost too much of their heart. This series isn't just about a character, but a fantastical community that had been irreparably damaged.

Part of the joy of Skin Game is watching that community reform around H in new ways, familiar faces making their own adjustments to the upheaval, and suddenly it all makes sense again. Jim Butcher hasn't swept the board clean at all. Instead he's given himself breathing space from the structures he had been forced to revisit continually, and is now building something new. Dresden's world has evolved.

As you can probably sense, I enjoyed this book a great deal. Harry's dry angst is still present, but the heist structure of the plot allows for more fun than I've had with the series for a while. It's not a pure reboot - Harry back-references his own adventures constantly, and several have a definite impact on this story, so this isn't a book for new readers - but it's a definite new lease of life for Dresden. I'm suddenly looking forward to the next book a great deal.

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The dirty half dozen or so..

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 27 May 2014

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Its rare for a series to still seem fresh and engaging after several books let alone when it hits number 15 but that has what has happened here with Skin Game number 15 in the Dresden Files. A series about a Chicago wizard and his friends and allies as they protect the city from threats great and small, starting out as a series about what was a essentially a magical PI with all the noir trappings its grown in depth and has developed one of the most complex and colourful mythlogies in any Fantasy series i have read.

This is Dresden Files Take on the Heist movie, a disparate cast of characters made up of friends and enemies past and present brought together under the untrustworthy patronage of Nicodemus one of Dresdens most feared foes to perform the supernatural equilivant of a bank job on nothing less then a God of Death.

This is a strong and exciting entry worth your time and money and while some of the twists and turns are a bit too predicable adhering a perhaps a bit too closely to the standard heist formula, and Nicodemus as a villain suffers from a severe case of all hat no cattle, there was enough character development and enough surprises ( the parasite resolution wasnt one i had even imagined as a possiblity yet was immenesly satisfying ) that it is still one worth reading. Maybe not the series strongest entry thats still small favour or perhaps changes but still showing there is plenty of Story left in the Dresden Files and 15 books in thats no mean accomplishment.

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