Skin Game

Jim Butcher

May 2014 · Dresden Files Book 15 · Sold by Penguin

About this eBook

Chicago’s only professional wizard is about to have a very bad day in the latest novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Dresden Files...

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

Mab has traded Harry’s skills to pay off a debt. And now he must help a group of villains led by Harry’s most despised enemy, Nicodemus Archleone, to break into a high-security vault so that they can then access a vault in the Nevernever.

Problem is, the vault belongs to Hades, Lord of the freaking Underworld. And Dresden is dead certain that Nicodemus has no intention of allowing any of his crew to survive the experience. Dresden’s always been tricky, but he’s going to have to up his backstabbing game to survive this mess...

Ratings and reviews

I love the Dresden Files. I think it's a lot of fun and surprisingly engaging. After Changes, I felt like the series was getting a major shakeup and I was extremely excited to see Harry take his next step in life. Problem is, that didn't really happen. I really enjoyed Skin Game, but it didn't deliver on some of the promises I was expecting after the last two books. It hinted at a few things (fomor etc.) but we still haven't landed at any understanding of....anything! Definitely a worthy edition to the series, but I'm looking forward to getting back to the excitement of the previous two books.

I love the way Butcher goes about the development of the characters in such a way as to get the reader to buy into the series even at this late stage. The little nibbles you get with some of the major characters, like with Karrin and Molly, are my favorite parts because I get to let my mind wander around those dynamics.

Jim Butcher has a way with character and plot that makes his books hard to put down. Skin game is no different. A great heist story and up there with all the other Dresden books. Keeping coming, Jim.

About the author

A martial arts enthusiast whose résumé includes a long list of skills rendered obsolete at least two hundred years ago, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher turned to writing as a career because anything else probably would have driven him insane. He lives mostly inside his own head so that he can write down the conversation of his imaginary friends, but his head can generally be found in Independence, Missouri. Jim is the author of the Dresden Files, the Codex Alera novels, and the Cinder Spires series, which began with The Aeronaut’s Windlass.