I started reading Dresden Files at book 8 or so, and I think that's actually a necessity. By that point, the weight of the world has accumulated enough to feel interesting, at least to me. There are all sorts of groups, each with complicated internal and external politics, and the characters in each are vivid enough to carry the pulp. (Plus that's the book where Karen Murphy is on vacation with Kincaid, so Dresden spends slightly less time moping over their non-relationship than usual; and I read it to get over a breakup, so I was super biased). I do think that it is totally reasonable to skip ahead.
That said, I really didn't like Skin Game. It takes all the bullshit that was not great in the earlier Dresden books and essentially makes it worse. I can rant about this (and a friend actually did a re-read to compare), but I'll wait until (if) you get that far.
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Date: 2015-06-08 07:19 pm (UTC)That said, I really didn't like Skin Game. It takes all the bullshit that was not great in the earlier Dresden books and essentially makes it worse. I can rant about this (and a friend actually did a re-read to compare), but I'll wait until (if) you get that far.