Has anybody here ever heard of a series called The Dresden Files? I heard from a friend that it was this awesome set of books that mixed hard-boiled detective stories with magic. And from the looks and sound of it (I did some Wikipedia research), the magic is so awesome, it’s nearly scientific. Rather, it’s so scientific that it’s awesome. Except that that wouldn’t have sounded as cool as the former.

Anyway. Science meets magic meets mystery stories. I love science, and when magic isn’t too steeped in high fantasy, it becomes one of the few things that can entrance me. And I started out this trip into the deep end of literature and reading with Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys mystery novels, so I’d be lying if I said I didn’t care for mystery stories one bit.

So please. If anybody can point me to which books I should read in the series (aside from the first book, since that pretty much introduces the entire idea of The Dresden Files), please do share your thoughts with me. I’d love to know which books to read and which books to avoid.

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