Review: Proven Guilty by Jim Butcher

Proven Guilty is the 8th book in The Dresden Files series. I've not read every book in the series, though I am moving forward chronologically... you may recall, I didn't much care for the last one I read and I put the series down for a while in response.

Happy news, this one was a lot better! The main character isn't weirdly focussed on protecting women (they are perfectly capable of protecting themselves, including the generic "uptight wife of friend" character turning out to be a badass swordfighter - very logically, since she works out with her sword-wielding husband, but somehow it never came up before), and there isn't a huge amount of gratuitous sex and gut-wrenching descriptions of violence.

Instead, we have an enjoyable novel starting from the somewhat concept of horror movie monsters appearing during a horror convention (and, yes, killing people). It's not as film noir / mystery as I would personally like, but it was enough of a page turner to get me through it and it left me willing to read the next book.