I certainly enjoyed them. Jim Butcher seems to understand the idioms he mixes very well so you finish up with good noire-ish detective fiction overlayed with wry (often very dark) observational humour and nodding pop-culture references; a good understanding of fantasy genres and, to a degree, I think, the modern gamer, keeps the magic element 'realistic' (in so far as such a thing can be) and believable* without it ever becoming the be-all and end-all of things - Harry solves problems as often (certainly in the early books) with quick thinking or brute force as he does with magic. There's a lot of good development through the series and the characters do grow and change.
*Butcher clearly has a well defined metaphysic for how magic works in his universe and, as it is told from Harry's first-person perspective, some of it comes out (or at least some of Harry's understanding of it comes out) in asides to the reader.
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Date: 2007-09-19 09:23 am (UTC)*Butcher clearly has a well defined metaphysic for how magic works in his universe and, as it is told from Harry's first-person perspective, some of it comes out (or at least some of Harry's understanding of it comes out) in asides to the reader.