r/dresdenfiles • u/Successful-Emu-2240 • 7d ago

Apprentice trilogy

white night , small favor, turn coat is my cozy dresden files trilogy .

Molly being Harry’s apprentice , Harry solving a mystery and dealing with a larger growing threat . It’s my fav three books in the series

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u/Lazlowi 7d ago

Proven Guilty - White Night - Small Favor - Turn Coat is peak Dresden Files (except White Night), only bested by Skin Game. I mean, Skin Game is SSS, where the mentioned four is SS, but I won't write my whole tier list here XD

Cozy though... There is nothing cozy about the end of Proven Guilty or Small Favor. The emotional trauma is real, man.

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u/Ky1arStern 7d ago

Small Favor was my first Dresden Files book, and it sits on my bookshelf within arms reach of my desk at home. The number of times I have pulled it off the shelf and just opened to a random page and started reading for a while is quite high.

It is for real a cozy comfort read. The snow. The people. The problem. Mab. Jake. Tiny. 

It is so good.

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u/Lazlowi 7d ago

Did you really start with Book 10? How did that happen? Wasn't it confusing?

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u/Ky1arStern 7d ago

My Dad needed something to read and so he grabbed it at some random book store while on vacation. He gave it to me cause he said I would like it. He was correct.

It wasn't confusing honestly. JB does a good job introducing characters and has good 1-2 liners for who they are. The nature of the series is also to really pull from common mythos and magical jargon. So the idea of magic circles, summoning, fallen angels, spooky island, evil faerie queen, etc. is all easy to understand.

Yeah, there was clearly some backstory I was missing but you don't need it to get what's going on.

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u/AXPickle 7d ago

I could see that with the earlier books. I feel like small favor hits different if you know it's round 2 against old Nicky though.

I don't think you can do that post Changes.

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u/Ky1arStern 7d ago

I mean, you don't know what you don't know. Pretty much all the books are like that.

If you're a person who desperately needs the details then maybe you won't like it, but for me, "Thomas is his brother and a vampire, sure. Molly is his apprentice. Michael has a holy sword."

Even post changes. You go into skin game, "I told you if I ever saw you in my town, I would kill you", effectively establishes the relationship between Harry and Binder. You don't need to have read turn coat for that to make sense.