I liked this one a lot better than the first one. The M'Ladyisms are cut down a little bit, which made it more palatable (either that or I've started ignoring them more effectively). How many women ACTUALLY accuse people of being 'chauvinist pigs'? Every woman if you ask Mr. Butcher, I assume. Maybe the year 2000 was just different I don't know, I was only three at the time so it's possible I missed something.

Every women in this is still either (A.) Horny as FUCK, (B.) Nagging and completely unreasonable, (C.) BOTH SOMEHOW. I still like Susan, but there were a couple of moments with Murphy that had me pulling my hair out. I hope this improves as the series goes on :/

The action in this one was more violent and heart-pounding than I remember the first one being which is loads of fun. The Loup-Garou scene in the police station was genuinely scary which I loved.

I find Harry Dresden to be charmingly dorky. I believe he's intended to be mostly cool, a little pathetic. I find him to be incidentally cool, and mostly pathetic (I say this endearingly). Something about listening to him describe how much he wants to curl up into a ball, cry, and throw-up makes him relatable. I like my male characters a little vulnerable, sue me. I also appreciated that when he did finally break down because, like, who wouldn't after all of that.

An improvement! I'm sure I'll read more of these now. I wasn't very hot on the first one but I came back because the audiobook was so enjoyable and now I'm glad I did! It was a perfect thing to listen to on a car trip