Dead Beat (The Dresden Files, Book 7) Review

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Dead Beat (The Dresden Files, Book 7) ReviewLet me say it right off: "Dead Beat" is not the best in the series, but it is damn good nevertheless. In all fairness it has several weaknesses, which I will briefly mention below, but it certainly doesn't betray the usual strong plot, fun adventure and high quality writing we came to expect from Jim.
The previous installment, "Blood Rites", had Harry discover new and disturbing facts about his life. In this book, Harry turns to introspection. Faced with a bunch of necromancers in a mad race after a lost artifact of unspeakable power, all of them much stronger magically than Harry, our hero has to make choices and compromises which are morally ambiguous. As with real life, there are no clear-cut `right' solutions (high points for realism, Jim). But hey, nothing like moral dilemmas to have a character grow. Indeed, here we find Harry gradually losing the naiveté and bumbling enthusiasm of the first volumes; this is a world-weary Harry who has to undergo a painful examination of his weaknesses of spirit in order to be able to live with them. Nicely done.
If the hero gets all the attention he deserves, that can hardly be said about the rest of the characters we came to love, or love to hate. Thomas pops in and out of the plot at random moments; some old characters get cameo appearances, others are conspicuously absent for the entire duration of the plot, which was decidedly odd. Also, there should be a limit to how many artifacts Harry is able to locate during the course of a book ... and then lose to the bad guys rather immediately! I am not saying this makes for a bad plot, but boy was I gritting my teeth in frustration. Finally, some small inconsistencies (an attentive reader will no doubt notice them, so I won't go into that). All these do not change my impression of the series, which is among the best out there now that Anita went bananas and Meredith will soon collapse from sexual exhaustion. I thoroughly enjoyed the book and can't wait to get my hands on the next one. Go Harry!Dead Beat (The Dresden Files, Book 7) Overview

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Meeting Fairies: My Remarkable Encounters with Nature Spirits Review

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Meeting Fairies: My Remarkable Encounters with Nature Spirits ReviewI was completely charmed by this delightful little book. It is beautifully bound and printed, complete with several wonderful drawings. Would make a unique gift. The odyssey Mr. Crombie was fortunate enough to have with the nature spirits is detailed here openly and sincerely.
That is fascinating enough in itself. But additionally, Crombie explains what these beings really are in terms even a hardnosed "rationalist" can understand and accept. If you don't "believe" in nature spirits, you probably will after reading this book. Crombie explains that the communication between him and them was of a type of telepathy, and that they actually exist as balls of beautiful multi-colored light - almost like a rainbow but more beautiful..... They take on the forms with which we are familiar...i.e. elves, gnomes, fairies etc. in order to appear to us - assuming the etheric "thought forms" in which humans over thousands of years - going back to Greek myth - have imaginged them. This is more of a matter of convenience for us and is not how they are in their natural resting state.

Today more than ever we need Crombie's message from the Nature Kingdom to us: we must recognize their existence and enter into a equal and cooperative relationship with them in order to cleanse and strenghten the Earth. This would be the greatest environmental action we could take . It has been due to the withdrawal of the nature spirits to a large degree in reaction to man's destructive and exploitive ways, that the foods which are grown today are comparatively low in nutrients and Life force -the vitality - the life force - in food, comes from the nature spirits.
I was fascinated to learn that the Fire spirits - "salamanders" have the unique and wonderful ability to cleanse or delete undesirable or destructive thought forms from the electromagnetic atmosphere in which we live. How we, both as individuals and on a collective scale, need this today!
Crombie admonishes us to understand that the nature spirits are not "cute" but are tremendously powerful beings - in the Angelic Hierarchy and will still - hard to believe in light of man's destructive ways and stupidity - help us if we hold the intention of earnestly and cooperatively working with them. Highly recommended!Meeting Fairies: My Remarkable Encounters with Nature Spirits Overview

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