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    Wandel: Die dunklen Fälle des Harry Dresden 12

    By Jim Butcher

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    Vor langer Zeit war Susan Rodriguez Harry Dresdens Geliebte - bis seine Feinde sie angriffen. Seither ist sie hin- und hergerissen zwischen ihrer Menschlichkeit und dem Blutdurst des Roten Hofes der Vampire. Dann verschwand Susan nach Südamerika, um gegen ihre dunkle Gabe und die, denen sie sie verdankt, gleichermaßen vorzugehen.
    Nun hat Arianna Ortega, die Herzogin des Roten Hofes, ein lange gehütetes Geheimnis Susans entdeckt, das sie gegen Harry einzusetzen gedenkt. Um diesmal davonzukommen, hat Dresden vielleicht keine andere Wahl, als seine eigen dunkle macht in vollem Umfang zu nutzen. Denn Harry will diesmal nicht die Welt retten, sondern ...
    Er kämpft um das Leben seines Kindes.
    LanguageDeutsch
    PublisherFeder & Schwert
    Release dateMar 12, 2013
    ISBN9783867621649
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    • 3/5
      Interesting story a little wordy at times, yet at other times hard to put down. MAkes you want to know what happened next, after the book ends.
    • 3/5
      Sadly I enjoyed this much less than many others in the series. Right from the word go, this is much darker and lacks the playful humor of earlier books. However, The pace picks up well in the later stages of the book, and main event of the book is vivid, leaving us with a real cliffhanger. Worth reading as a continuation of the series if you have enjoyed the others, but IMO definitely not as a stand alone book.
    • 5/5
      Holey crappe Mr Butcher! What the hell!? Cliffhanger much? Now I have to wait for next year before GHOST STORY comes out...AGHHH!!!! This was a superb book, especially to listen to on my commute.Harry Dresden dives into the fray with Susan, half vampire and Dresden's former lover. She is dead set to fight the Red Court, a powerful contingent of vampires. They have taken a child to use as a blood sacrifice. This child is Susan and Harry's daughter, a daughter Harry didn't know he had. Susan has been keeping her a secret to keep her safe, but now she needs Harry's help to get their daughter back. They gather a motley team of an archangel, Dresden's protege Mollie, Dresden's best friend Murphy, and his half-brother Thomas and gather the clues necessary to fight the fight to get Maggie back. Clues gathered, they head to Chichen Itza and throwdown with a gazillion vampires and their minions.I am looking forward to reading more of the series. I haven't been reading them in any kind of order and I don't think I'm missing out on much. I got caught up on anything I thought necessary during the course of this book. And I reiterate.....WHAT THE HELL Mr Butcher?! What a hellah cliffhanger! Five big ol' sparkly diamonds for CHANGES.......and a bowl of sparkly diamonds for James Marsters....well, because he's James Marsters and I luh-huv him...and this is my blog so if I want to give a bowl of diamonds rating....
    • 4/5
      This is a series I look forward to reading and luckily Jim Butcher has rarely let me down. This one was particularly good as after this book Harry can go into a variety of new directions, he's not stuck in the same rut of find creepy thing, kill creepy thing. Kudos to JB for moving on and moving out and continuing to make me look for the next HD novel.
    • 3/5
      Wow, no wonder it's called Changes! Many thing progress, things are resolved, and more mysteries are revealed. I finished this about a month ago and I'm still working through it, but I'm pretty sure I'm not entirely happy. This is the first real cliff-hanger ending Butcher has done and I don't think it's a good development. On the one hand, what happened was just going to happen (could see it coming based on earlier events) but on the other hand it could have been left until the next book. There was already a lot going on; not sure one more thing had to be introduced. That said, looking forward to the next installment!
    • 4/5
      I was so eager to read this book after basically reading from 1 - 11 in fairly quick succession and found them to improve steadily book after book... until this one - I can't really put my finger on what was off, but it didn't seem to flow like the others. It wasn't a very original story overall either; loved one trapped and in danger, risking impossible odds to save the innocent... Yes - there were new elements and the whole child thing - but in the end it was just more of the same and didn't really advance the core characters in their relationships (Thomas, Murphy, Molly...). ... and the ending was for crap. I just hate series that end with a surprise cliffhanger - seems only to happen when authors get a little too wrapped up in themselves - why not wait and make that the start of the new book rather than drop a bomb and leave readers waiting... how long this time?? What happens if the author doesn't write the next book - the character is just stuck in that tragic limbo. It's like hearing one of your favorite songs but at the end you find out it is a cutout from a mixtape and the next song is starting up before the song you like has ended. Ok - so a few "issues" but it is a Dresden Files book and I liked it - but I would say if you are new to the series there are 11 better books that come before this one.
    • 4/5
      I like Harry Dresden. The books are fun. Mainly due to the narrative voice of Harry Dresden himself. I have tried other books in the "urban fantasy" genre and none of them can make the setting work. Jim Butcher throws every bot of mythical beast and monster you have ever head of into the mix and somehow manages to create a credible and enjoyable read held together by Harry's monologue and the characters' dialogue.
    • 4/5
      A bit slower than other Dresden Files books, but very emotionally-intense. Forgive the cheesiness of this statement, but this book took the series to a new, deeper place. I read this months ago, and thinking about the events that occurred can still move me.

      And it was nice to be given a gift that should be a "truism" of urban fiction - When something incredibly unbelievable is about to happen, the universe will conspire to prevent it!
    • 5/5
      Probably the best Harry Dresden book in the series so far. It features practically everybody introduced in the series previously and puts Harry Dresden through an intense and emotional story. The series finally focuses on the war between the Red Court and White Council that previous books mention but never get too involved in. The book has more everlasting effects on Harry Dresden and the direction where the story is going. Great book!
    • 5/5
      I'm so invested in this character, these characters. I nearly cried a few times at some of the events in the story, and the revelations were stunning but so obvious, thereafter. Can't hardly wait for the next chapter in Harry Dresden's... well, that's a spoiler...
    • 3/5
      Harry Dresden, the wizard extraordinaire who helps out the Chicago PD has just learned that he has a daughter and she has been kidnapped by the Duchess of the Red Court. There is an ulterior motive in the kidnapping which has Harry joined by his ex-girlfriend and mother of his daughter, Susan; his brother Thomas; Molly his ward; and various others. There are a few too many disjointed sub-plots with Harry somehow being “wed” I think is the word, to Mab-Queen of the Winter Court, which makes him the Winter Knight, all this to give him the power to battle the Red Court. There are a lot of characters to keep straight and various fights taking place and racing through tears in earth’s fabrics that it is sometimes overwhelming. I think about 100 pages could have been cut from the 438. Butcher is using a trick others have been using lately. He doesn’t quite end the book. Authors are treating their series like a TV show season finale where you have to wait for the next season to see who survived and/or what happens next. I’m an impatient person and not quite sure if I like that sort of twist.
    • 4/5
      This book, as such, was exciting, fast paced, with unexpected turns and a complex plot line.

      I appreciate the focus on Harry as a nurturer. This, as I have said elsewhere. Given the expectations even a generation ago that men be less involved with their progeny than women, the emphasis and importance Butcher places on Dresden as a teacher, nurturer, saver of babies and biological parent has value. There may be something interesting in comparing the series with Lolita, given Molly's (portrayed as) precocious tendencies.

      That being said, I hate the gender breakdown of this novel. Hate hate hate hate. Firey passion of thousand suns. Hate.

      Hate.

      I have really mixed feelings about Susan having the baby first off, but that is a personal conflict on my part and I fully recognize it as such. It is kind of a cop out I feel, because she has the kid, but can't keep the kid, so finds a safe surrogate family for the kid, and still shows up periodically to be part of the kid's life. This strikes me as wanting to have the cake and eat it too. Open adoptions are a little different than this, which feels like Susan knew her life wasn't suitable for child rearing and she wasn't able/willing to change it to accommodate the child, so she made a responsible decision and didn't raise the child herself. And yet she continued to be involved with the kid. This is stupid. From a practical stand point, the very act of contact with the child put her at risk. From a plot perspective, this was stupid. It painted Susan incredibly negatively, as though she wanted to be a mother without really having to be a mother. Show up for the holidays and let the surrogate family do all the work. Crap, Butcher, this is crap.

      To top all that off, then she denied Harry even the knowledge that he had a child. Given the stuff they deal with, what part of forewarned isn't forearmed? Really? And honestly, it was shitty thing to have Susan do. I don't know how common this is, but I do recognize it as a completely viable male fear. Short of a paternity test, they can't actually verify that a child is their blood, and it is completely possible for the woman to have an abortion without his knowledge, or to have the kid and exclude him from the decision making process.

      Now, I have more mixed feelings here. As a sexually active woman, I've had to make decisions about what I would do if I found myself in Susan's situation: knocked up, not wanting to have or keep the kid, not with a partner who could help raise it, or not willing to be with the partner who could help raise it, and not necessarily wanting/willing to deal with the drama of notifying said partner about the situation. Particularly since my solution would be abortion. Honestly, this would be the outcome regardless of what the father thought. At the end of the day, it is my body, and I have to live in it and pregnancy changes the female body in irrevocable ways. I also understand that not notifying all involved parties would be an unfair course of action. And yet. (This is also why I am aware of my morning after pill options, because I never ever want to go through this).

      Susan chose to have the kid. And chose to be involved with the kid. And denies Harry the same option. This is uncool to the greatest extent. And I see this as an extreme manifestation of a singularly male fear that the female will not notify him of what is happening. I also think that this is a projection, and to some degree an exaggeration, of that male fear into the novel. It is a very unfair thing for Susan to do, and I think a very unfair thing for Butcher to write Susan as doing. I don't see anything in her character (at this point) that makes this anything other than a plot device, and perhaps a social commentary on the unfairness of women making exactly these sorts of decisions sans the biologically involved men. That is certainly a more generous reading of the situation, and I would be more inclined to by sympathetic to this reading were it not for the manipulative and brutal death meted to Susan, read yet again as punishment for her agency.

      I will return to this anon. Writing through the thought process is irking me.


    • 4/5
      This is the first novel by Jim Butcher that I've read, but I have to say I really enjoyed it. This is the 12th book in the series so I jumped right in the middle of it, but I never felt like I had to put it down and start at the beginning. This is fast paced, well written and entertaining. I reminded my in style of Kevin Hearn's Iron Druid series, with the similar setting of an almost modern day world mixed with magic and fantasy creatures. There's lots of action, heroism, sacrifice and a bit (not too much) of romance. A fun read and I'd read more of this series any time.
    • 4/5
      A roller coaster ride of a story that lives up to its title. Harry is a modern day knight errant who is blindsided by the earthshattering news of his paternity. There is a disturbing finality to the destruction of some of the things that Harry has heretofore treasured and the fissures underlying the traditional and hidebound White Council are exposed and exploited. Harry and his allies continue to display their stalwart courage and imaginative adaptive qualities but events rapidly spiral out of control until it is difficult to determine how Harry is going to get out of the corner he has painted himself into. A disturbing ending will keep the reader unsettled until the next novel arrives although the upcoming title is self-explanatory. Another great entry into the series.
    • 3/5
      I've read a bunch of these now, and they're pretty reliably entertaining. They all follow a similar formula, but that's part of what you expect (and want) from series like this. A good thing to throw in among more serious reading if you need something plot-driven and undemanding.
    • 5/5
      Wow. I need to start taking the titles of each book a lot more seriously. Very intense "Changes". Be prepared people..
    • 4/5
      I do have an enormous soft spot for these books and this one is another great addition to the series and one that is perfectly titled. Everything changes for Harry when he discovers that he and Susan had a daughter who, for her own protection, Susan let with a foster family. The Red Court have discovered Susan's secret and kidnapped Maggie (quite how is a shocking revelation) and now Harry and Susan must reunite to rescue Maggie before the Red Court King sacrifices here. There are, of course, nits to be picked with the writing and the series, but Butcher is never afraid to shock and surprise his readers and this is another fast and entertaining read in the series
    • 4/5
      Butcher has given our wisecracking wizard a serious set of changes. By the end of the book he has lost his books, apartment, wizard's lab, office, staff, rod, clothes, a major chunk of enemies, and Susan. Oh yeah, at the very end, he may have lost his soul and his life to but whose counting. However, he gains a few things: a daughter (he has a daughter!!), a grandfather, and a new job--with Mab. Muphy survivies but she loses a few things also: her job and a date with Dresden.
    • 3/5
      CLIFFHANGER! Aargh.
    • 5/5
      Changes, for sure!! From the very first sentence, Harry's life is changed, and not all in good ways. This series keeps getting better and better- and the characters are so *real*. The way this book ended, I'm not sure I'll be able to wait for #13!!
    • 4/5
      Harry Dresden is a daddy. Well, a father, at any rate. Or so former lover and half-changed vampire Susan tells him, at the beginning of Changes. Not only that but Maggie--their daughter, eight years old and being raised away from both of her parents...for obvious reasons--has been kidnapped. By the Red Court. To be used as a sacrifice in an ancient Mayan ritual. More than this I cannot tell of the plot, knowing, as I do, how most people detest spoilers and how easily I could let something slip when summarizing the plot of this action-packed book. So here's what I'll say:First, the Dresden Files is far and away the best urban fantasy series to be found. Jim Butcher strikes a perfect balance between the voice of his smart-ass protagonist and narrator and the fantastic, horrible, and truly evil things he encounters. Next, Changes, the twelfth in the series, is the best so far (although I should add the caveat that I'm a little behind, and still haven't read installments ten and eleven). The action is nearly non-stop but even so there is deep feeling and mad character development. Harry grows--and changes--in this book (it's been noted by many other reviewers how apt the title is), and what he's willing to do to save someone he loves, the sacrifices he's willing to make, will probably shock some. Changes gives a little more insight into the character and motivation of the two "grown-up" figures in Harry's life, Lea, his, ah, fairy godmother, and Ebenezer McCoy, his mentor and savior. We get into Mouse's head in this book (yeah, he's as cool as you'd think), and we observe Harry's apprentice Molly--still hopelessly smitten with her mentor--emerge as a person and as a practitioner of the arts. And Murphy--who, several books back was offered Fidelacchius--comes this much closer to taking on the mantle of Knight of the Sword.And then there's the ending. I will give nothing away but let me tell you, it's a doozy. A cliff-hanger as precipitous as that which ended season three of Angel. Jim Butcher, I'm sorry to say this because I know your one true love is your "swords-and-horses" fantasy, but I'd like to make a plea: put that aside and give us more Dresden. And fast!
    • 5/5
      Really like 4.5 stars. One of the best books in the series so far because it shakes up the major plotlines in a number of ways. Here Jim Butcher's cynicism- something that starts to bubble to the surface in Deadbeat (book 7?)- tints the heroic plot and runs through to the bitter end. The Dresden Files are often lumped into the category of "urban fantasy", but this is hardly urban fantasy. It's more like Frank Herbert's Dune than anything else I've read and seems at least partially inspired by Lord of the Rings.Butcher does a good job of saving some of the best plot turns for the very end. A dark, cynical, fantastic read
    • 5/5
      Changes is the perfect title for this book. Harry's entire world changes when he learns that he has a daughter and she is now in the hands of some of his worst enemies. He must determine which lines he will cross in order to get her back safely. What is he willing to sacrifice to keep her alive? Jim Butcher truly pushes Harry to his limits in this book -- emotionally, physically, and magically.Dresden and his friends are in constant danger as someone (or something) tries to kill him with all manner of attacks. Once again, we see who will stand with Dresden even in the face of certain death and who will abandon him to save their own skin. Politically, Dresden is a step behind as usual but he generally figures it all out just in time. Of course, what he figures out this time leads to some even larger questions and the choices he makes along the way have far reaching consequences.I love the non-stop action in the Dresden books. Although Dresden has a lot to think about and many choices to make, he rarely has the time for serious contemplation. Dresden's humor is another of my favorite things about this series. He rarely knows when to stop with the wise-cracks, even in the most serious of situations. He faces death with sarcasm and quotes from Star Wars.I think this book may be my favorite in the series so far because we learn so much about who Harry Dresden truly is and what he stands for. Butcher ends Changes with a serious cliff-hanger and I cannot believe I have to wait until March 2011 for Ghost Story to come out!
    • 5/5
      A very exciting book. Harry must rescue his kidnapped daughter.Some favorite quotes:Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others-even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.One which is scarier evil or stupid - "Stupid, Hoss. Every time. Only so many blackhearted villains in the world, and they only get uppity on occasion. Stupid's everywhere, every day."
    • 3/5
      This is one of the most action-packed of the episodes in this series, tying together a number of the background story lines into a single, good adventure story. One of the things I like most about the Dresden books is that Butcher doesn't allow himself to get stuck in one never-ending plot line that, eventually, becomes boring. We had the introductory conflicts with Morgan; we had the Denarius stories that spanned five books; now he's bringing the Red Court story line to a rather gripping crescendo. Another thing that I've always liked about these books is that the larger story lines spanned volumes, but each book was complete unto itself...the local story line reached a natural pause point while Harry and the reader contemplated the consequences of what he had just done. Book #12 followed that formula for 437 of its 438 pages. The story was over, though we see the trouble brewing on the horizon. Then, on 438, Mr. Butcher decides to gift us with his first cliff-hanger—an out-of-the-blue event that leaves us wondering if Harry is even going to survive. Though...of course...we know he will if we are to read any more books in the series.Boo! We'd have bought them anyway; we didn't need to be aggravated for a year.Dropped from recommended to mildly recommended for this reason—I recommend you hold off on this one until the next book is out. You get the added bonus of buying it in paperback.
    • 3/5
      Harry's adventures are always good entertainment though I got a little lost with all the different factions when listening to the audiobook.
    • 4/5
      I love the series, but I think this is one of my favorites. Bob is back, and Dresden's godmother, so as dark as it is, there is some good humor here. I feel Butcher made a lot more pop culture references, Star Wars in particular. Not necessarily a bad thing, but it just gave the book a different feel since I don't recall Harry mentioning things like that so often in past books. Cannot wait to read #13!
    • 4/5
      Not sure how I feel about this book. Its a Butcher novel so it automatically gets four stars. It is different than the rest of the series and the title pretty much says it all; changes. Although in this book Dresden crosses lines he swore he would never cross he paradoxically seems to keep his honor. The circumstances that force him to make those choices fit with the character of Harry Dresden we all know and love. Butcher manages to bring in the humor he is known for even though the book is dark. And there is some sizzle between various characters although it is understood that nothing can happen. Everyone's favorite characters get involved: the talking dog, the butt-kicking blonde, the apprentice, the crazy russian....well you get the idea. I think it would have been different if I would have picked this book up expecting it to be like the rest of the series. Knowing the differences helped. Still, this is the Dresden series. Definitely worth reading. Probably more than once.
    • 4/5
      There's way more action in this one *and* a cliffhanger ending. I wasn't too thrilled about the whole scene with Harry's "faerie godmother" and his outfit, but other than that, Changes had more meat than the last few in the series. A solid 3.5 stars.
    • 5/5
      Changes indeed. And then some. Everything you know about Harry Dresden, Chicago's finest (and only) Wizard PI, from his family and friends right through to his job and his home are affected to varying degrees. He has to make some tough choices over which lines he's going to cross as well.Spoilery plot bit follows:Susan Rodriguez, former lover and half-vampire, needs Harry's help. She tells him that the Red Court has taken their daughter and she needs help in finding her and getting her back. When he discovers the full enormity of the powers involved Harry realises that he's seriously out-gunned on this one and will have to call in some extra fire-power from somewhere if he's to have any chance of rescuing the daughter he never knew he had. The White Council refuse his plea for help so who does he turn to next?End of spoilery plot bit.The action continues to explode at breakneck speed with barely a moment to take stock for either the reader or cast of usual suspects. Karrin Murphy, cop who may be about to lose her shield, places herself firmly at Harry's side as does his apprentice Molly and his half-brother Thomas and of course it wouldn't be the same without Mouse padding along as well. Nine companions set off on the quest and the homage to LOTR is fitting (and no, Harry doesn't get to be Gandalf). Some major plot-lines are resolved in this book so it certainly isn't a good starting point for those new to the series and it's also a kick in the pants for those that are continuing with each book that comes along. Talk about a cliff-hanger of an ending.If you liked the rest of the series then you will no doubt like this one though it is darker in tone. If you don't like the series then what are you doing reading a review for book 12?