Hello all. Didn't know where to post this, so I am making a new thread.

I want to read the Denarian series by Shezza but I haven't read much of Dresden Files. Only book 1 - Storm Front - is done.

So, how much more do I have to read Harry Dresden for me to enjoy that Harry Potter completely? There are, I suppose, 15 books. I thought it would be better to ask since I am going through all the work only to read the trilogy.

Dresden is all right but I live in the Potter world. So, help would be much appreciated.

 

You don't need to have read all the Dresden books but I recommend that you do because they are great. Whilst the first couple aren't too good the rest are brilliant.

 

You don't need to know anything. I, like many other DLPers, read the Denarian series before the Dresden Files. The Denarian series is what got me to read DF in the first place.

 

I did read first book of that Shezza's series. I had some serious issues with it, but none had anything to do with me not knowing anything about the DF universe. I didn't have troubles understanding it. When I read that story, I just imagined it's some kind of world with demons and angels (like Diablo books) and left it at that.

 

I honestly don't remember if I read the Dresden Files or Denarian series first.

I think you'd want to read at least the first five, if only because the fifth one is where they properly introduce the Fallen.

 

When I read the Denarian Trilogy, I'd either only read Storm Front, or that and Fool Moon. Either way, I got along just fine.

Those are still the only two I've read. :|

 

Jim Butcher has Shezza to thank for quite a few of his book sales. I hadn't even heard of the series until I read the trilogy.

 

I read Denarian before I ever read Dresden Files, or knew much of anything about it. It kind of made the first few Dresden books worse, I think, tbh, because I was comparing the two. I never did get past Blood Rites.

 

God Ash, I don't think you could of stopped any closer to when it starts becoming awesome.

 

*could have

I didn't see myself liking Dresden more as a character...shocked that I read as far as I did, really...testament to how much I thought of the people recommending it, I guess. People kept telling me it got better, but it just put me to sleep whenever I tried to read it.

 

More interesting to me is whether the Denarian Series will spoiler shit from the books? I'm at the eight book of the series, and I don't want no spoilers.

 

No spoilers.

 

Thank you everyone. Denarian it is. 4 chapters done already.

 

The general rule is, if you don't enjoy it by book 3 or 4, you're not going to. Dresden's actually a pretty simple character when you get down to it, and very slow to change.

The quality of the writing in the first 2 books is also much lower than the subsequent entries.

As to the Denarians, books 5 and 7 give you the basis for how they work and what they're capable of.

 

You... complete me.

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You know what blew me away? I gave Storm Front to my mom (what sequence of events prompted me to do that I cannot recall - maybe she'd run out of mysteries) and she really dug it. So, I gave her Fool Moon and, after finishing it, she razzed me for not reading the others, because it meant she was out of Dresden to read.

Whatever my reason was for loaning Storm Front to her, I figured she'd probably hand it back after a couple chapters and say she wasn't into it. *shrug*

 

I had my mom read the books too and we both love it. Every year she asks me when the next one comes out.

I'm actually a bit surprised that so many people haven't read the series here.

(And yet so many people are still into Naruto :facepalm)

 

In my personal defense, I started Naruto when I was 13 and much less discerning of good fiction. By the time story development went to crap I was much older and just enjoyed the world.

I find Dresden incredibly difficult to read though. His character just pisses me off too much.

 

That's because you're a peasant .

 

Love Dresden, but it took me almost two years to really read it all. The first 3 books were good but I wasn't addicted, loved 4 and 5, 8 and 9 made dial back on the reading. Introduced them to my brother, he devoured them all in a month, abd he is extremely picky and bitchy about everything. I actually started Dresden thanks to Awaken Sleeper by Water_Mage.

Back on topic, I recommend reading at least book 5 so you don't get lost sometimes.