Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Changes (The Dresden Files #12) by Jim Butcher Changes. Long ago, Susan Rodriguez was Harry Dresden's lover—until she was attacked by his enemies, leaving her torn between her own humanity and the bloodlust of the vampiric Red Court. Susan then disappeared to South America, where she could fight both her savage gift and those who cursed her with it. Now Arianna Ortega, Duchess of the Red Court, has discovered a secret Susan has long kept, and she plans to use it—against Harry. To prevail this time, he may have no choice but to embrace the raging fury of his own untapped dark power. Because Harry's not fighting to save the world. Changes. Long ago, Susan Rodriguez was Harry Dresden's lover—until she was attacked by his enemies, leaving her torn between her own humanity and the bloodlust of the vampiric Red Court. Susan then disappeared to South America, where she could fight both her savage gift and those who cursed her with it. Now Arianna Ortega, Duchess of the Red Court, has discovered a secret Susan has long kept, and she plans to use it—against Harry. To prevail this time, he may have no choice but to embrace the raging fury of his own untapped dark power. Because Harry's not fighting to save the world. Jim Butcher Changes (Dresden Files, Book 12) “Changes” The Dresden Files Book 12. The Dresden Files interview. "Changes" jim Butcher The Dresden Files book 12. The new novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Dresden Files series. Long ago, Susan Rodriguez was Harry Dresden’s lover-until she was attacked by his enemies, leaving her torn between her own humanity and the bloodlust of the vampiric Red Court. Susan then disappeared to South America, where she could fight both her savage gift and those who cursed her with it. Now Arianna Ortega, Duchess of the Red Court, has discovered a secret Susan has long kept, and she plans to use it-against Harry. To prevail this time, he may have no choice but to embrace the raging fury of his own untapped dark power. Because Harry’s not fighting to save the world… He’s fighting to save his child . Jim Butcher : Biography. jim ButCher "Changes" The Dresden files. Jim Butcher read his first fantasy novel when he was seven years old– the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. By the time he turned eight, he’d added the rest of the Narnia books, the Prydain Chronicles, every. book about Star Wars he could find, a great many Star Trek novels and. the Lord of the Rings to his count. So he was pretty much doomed from the start. Love of fantasy, his personal gateway drug, drew him toward a fairly. eclectic spread of interests: horseback riding (including trick riding, stunt riding, drill riding, and competitive stunt racing), archery, martial arts, costuming, music and theater. He played a lot of role- playing games, a lot of fantasy-based tactical computer games, and. eventually got into live-action roleplay where players beat each other. up with boffer weapons. So, really, he can fly his nerd flag with pretty much anyone, and. He took up writing to be able to produce fantasy novels with swords and. horses in them, and determinedly wrote terrible fantasy books until, just to prove a point to his writing teacher, he decided to take every. piece of her advice; fill out outlines and worksheets, and design. stories and characters just the way she’d been telling him to do for. about three years. He was certain that once she saw what hideous art it. produced, she would be proven wrong and repent the error of her ways. The result was the Dresden Files, which sure showed *her*. She has not yet admitted her mistake and recanted her philosophy on. Jim has performed in dramas, musicals, and vocal groups in front of. live audiences of thousands and on TV. He has performed exhibition. riding in multiple arenas, and fallen from running horses a truly. ridiculous number of times. He was once cursed by an Amazon witch. doctor in rural Brazil, has apparently begun writing about himself in. the third person, and is hardly ever sick at sea. He also writes books occasionally. Jim stands accused of writing the Dresden Files and the Codex Alera. He’s plead insanity, but the jury is still out on that one. He lives in. Changes. Long ago, Susan Rodriguez was Harry Dresden's lover-until she was attacked by his enemies, leaving her torn between her own humanity and the bloodlust of the vampiric Red Court. Susan then disappeared to South America, where she could fight both her savage gift and those who cursed her with it. Now Arianna Ortega, Duchess of the Red Court, has discovered a secret Susan has long kept, and she plans to use it-against Dresden. To prevail this time, he may have no choice but to embrace the raging fury of his own untapped dark power. Because Dresden's not fighting to save the world. He's fighting to save his child . Plot [ edit | edit source ] New plot points. Introduced characters. Character. Description. After an explosion destroys his office building, Dresden learns from Karrin Murphy he is under investigation by the FBI. After being released and having a talk with his fairy godmother, Dresden is eventually directed to the Norse God Odin, who tells him The Red Court is going to use Margaret for a powerful blood curse that will kill everyone who shares a relation to Maggie, including Dresden. Dresden decides to investigate Rudolph, the FBI agent who implicated him in the office explosion, reasoning that he must have implicated Dresden because of pressure coming from the Red Court. During this investigation, he encounters the 'Eebs', a husband and wife team of Red Court vampires who have been sent to both assassinate Rudolph and to dissuade Dresden from going after Arianna. After a close call with them, Dresden returns home, only to have his apartment firebombed. During his subsequent attempts to rescue the other residents in his building, Dresden's back is broken, and Sanya shows up just in the nick of time. While injured, Dresden calls up Uriel and asks for help. Uriel, in the form of a tall young man in jeans and a T-shirt, refuses to heal his back as it would alter the consequences of Dresden's choices made in free will. With no other options open to him, Dresden turns to Queen Mab; accepting her offer of the Winter Knighthood in exchange for the power he needs to save his daughter. The Leanansidhe, who has been assigned to aid in this quest by Mab, joins in the planning. With help from his godmother, Sanya, Karrin Murphy, Thomas Raith, Molly Carpenter, Susan Rodriguez and Martin, they set out on the first leg of the journey to where his daughter is being held. Along the way, Dresden uses a sending stone to communicate with Ebenezar, informing him that Maggie is his daughter. Upon learning this, Ebenezar changes his mind, encourages Dresden to do what he needs to do. Confronting the Red Court, the Red King grants Dresden an audience. The Red King agrees to allow Dresden to duel Arianna in exchange for Maggie's life. After Dresden finally kills her, the Red King refuses to honor their agreement. The group then engages in a seemingly hopeless battle against the Vampires, only to be joined at the height by the Grey Council -including Odin and Ebenezar - and an army of birdlike creatures from the Nevernever. After a seeming betrayal by Martin that causes Susan to lose control and drink his blood, Dresden learns that all of Martin's actions have been to put someone in a position to destroy the entire Red Court in one blow, namely Susan. Dresden carries Susan to the altar and cuts her throat, unleashing the Bloodline Curse upon the Red Court and killing every last one, now that Susan had become the youngest vampire of the Red Court. The few half vampires who are not killed by the removal of their vampire halves, as well as the Red King's Mortal followers, are almost all destroyed by the angered captives of the Red Court. In the aftermath, Ebeneezer confirms what Harry had already surmised; he admits that he is actually Dresden's grandfather and he knows what it is like to lose a child. Dresden realizes he can never provide the sort of home for Maggie he wants her to have and asks that she be placed in the safest possible place, and give her up to Father Forthill. Later, recovering on Thomas's boat the Water Beetle, Dresden goes onto the deck to get some air, only to be shot and fall into Lake Michigan. Tor.com. Science fiction. Fantasy. The universe. And related subjects. Changes , Book 12 of the Dresden Files, by Jim Butcher. It’s scary when the next volume in a beloved series is called Changes . I mean, pretty much every book in the Dresden Files could be called “Changes to Character Relationships and Long-Term Threatening Situations That You Didn’t Even Realize Were Happening Because I Successfully Distracted You With the Plot, Including One or Two Big Reveals and Some Neat Explosions.” But that’s not what they’re called; they have snappy, two-word titles like Fool Moon and Dead Beat . This title stared at me as I contemplated my copy. Were these changes going to be bigger? Badder? For the wary: This review contains no more specific spoilers than you would get reading the inside flap. I’m a total nut about not getting spoiled myself, so you can trust me. But Jim Butcher released the biggest spoiler of all on his Twitter stream, and it’s the first line of the book: I answered the phone and Susan Rodriguez said, “They’ve taken our daughter.” Bwuh. Quick reminder: Susan was a reporter who liked to bug Harry for details about his cases, until one day in Grave Peril —book three—she got too close to a scoop and was bitten by a Red Court vampire. She hasn’t made the full transition yet, and now fights her blood lust and kills vampires in South America; we last saw her in book five, Death Masks . And apparently at some point, she and Harry forgot rule number one of dating, at least as defined by my mother: “Don’t get pregnant!” (The “because vampires might kidnap your child” was implied.) The Dresden ensemble cast is in full force in Changes : Murphy, Molly, Sanya, Mac, Bob, Ebenezar, Mouse, Lea, Mab, Toot-toot, Luccio, Thomas, and Gentleman Johnny Marcone all turn up. There are big relationship reveals, excellent explosions, and a doughnut that I suspect of being symbolic. But, taking into account that I would rather be reading the new Dresden Files book than doing pretty much anything else, Changes didn’t pull me in as powerfully as I was expecting. There were two main problems: one is that the emotional centers of the book were a woman I haven’t read about in five years and didn’t have strong feelings about even then, and a child I’ve never met. Obviously the kidnapping of children is wrong and I disapprove, but just imagine, say, Molly in danger—the stakes go up exponentially. In Turn Coat , we followed Harry on the emotional journey from thinking Morgan was a total prick to thinking he was a complicated and very human prick. I loved when Harry talked to Molly about what it means to be a wizard, because I’d seen Harry get to that place over the last few books, and I’d seen Molly trying to find her way in the magical world. In Changes , it’s obvious that Harry still cares a lot about Susan and he’s desperate to be there for his daughter, but I felt removed from the driving emotional force. Maybe Susan fans or people reading straight through the series would disagree, which raises an interesting question about who authors are really writing for: the audience as the books come out, or the potentially much larger audiences of the future? But there’s also the problem of escalation. Apparently the Red Court are the baddest bad guys we’ve faced yet. But who would win, a vampire or a Denarian? A vampire or the Naagloshii? Could the Red King take on Queen Mab? Butcher is throwing more and more powerful obstacles in Harry’s way, and consequently Harry becomes more and more able to deal with them, until everyone is so powerful that the descriptions of their speed and strength just become a background hum. But power doesn’t have to mean force. Mab was one of my favorite threatening presences, because the tension was based on Harry owing her favors, not on the fact that she could pound him into pudding if she wanted to. I hope that the next book will take a cue from its title, Side Jobs , and resolve not by might, not by power, but by badass craftiness. All of that said, Harry is still Harry, and there are some good twists and turns waiting for you. Take a look at the list of characters above and remember, Changes is funny, quick, and full of people you love, and the titular changes are the kind that leave me excited for what Butcher is going to do in the next book. But of course, I shouldn’t mention those here… I’ll see you in the comments. The spoilery, spoilery, do-not-read-the- comments-if-you-haven’t-read-the-book-yet comments. And to facilitate discussion, I’m giving away my review copy to the first person to comment specifically asking for it. A simple “ME BOOK PLZ” will do. Warning: dust jacket is slightly battered around the edges, and the book has been in a house with cats. Safe for those with peanut and seafood allergies. We do not ship to the Nevernever.