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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
I'm glad I'm not the only one to feel this way. I read the first of the Harry Dresden books, and found it only so-so. I gave it to a teenaged nephew, who might be a far better target audience.
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I think the first Dresden book suffers a bit from the author being young when he wrote it.
It takes a bit, but as the books more along I found that as Dresden becomes a whole lot more complex a character, and the universe he lives in has more depth, I think it becomes a lot more interesting.
Looking back, the first stories make the troubles and dangers he faced then seem like child's play. But I think that keeping it simple at first was a good idea. Otherwise, we couldn't have handled the info dump we'd have needed to jump right into the deep end.