--- product_id: 4524215 title: "Summer Knight: The Dresden Files, Book 4" price: "SAR 10" currency: SAR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.com.sa/products/4524215-summer-knight-the-dresden-files-book-4 store_origin: SA region: Saudi Arabia --- # Summer Knight: The Dresden Files, Book 4 **Price:** SAR 10 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Summer Knight: The Dresden Files, Book 4 - **How much does it cost?** SAR 10 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.sa](https://www.desertcart.com.sa/products/4524215-summer-knight-the-dresden-files-book-4) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden is a very powerful wizard and a dedicated private eye. He is also a wise cracking trouble magnet. Fueled by a tempest of guilt, sleep deprivation, malnutrition, bad temper and frankly awful personal grooming. Harry is hurtling toward oblivion. According to Harry that is nobody's business but his own. The Winter Queen of Faerie manipulates him into accepting a case to solve a murder and stop a war between the courts of Summer and Winter that could have literally earth shattering consequences. His own soul is up for grabs. Dresden must dig deep to discover that at time a willingness to accept a little help from your friends, be they a cub pack of werewolves, old loves in sheep's clothing, or a battalion of pizza loving dewdrop fairies, is a very good thing. Review: Hands-Down the Best of the Books So Far in the Series - Author Jim Butcher delivers another incredible tale with Summer Knight, Book Four of The Dresden Files. As the story begins, Harry is still reeling from the events of the previous book, wherein he was used by the vampires of the Red Court to initiate a war with the White Council of Wizards. It has been about eight months since then, and to say that Harry is in bad shape emotionally would be an understatement. He has been holed up as a hermit in his apartment, working desperately to cure his girlfriend (ex-girlfriend actually, as she broke it off and left town for his safety) Susan of her partial vampirism, so she can have a normal life and they can be together. The war isn't going as well for the wizards as they may have hoped, though they do have the advantage. Of course, many of his fellow wizards blame Harry for saving Susan at the cost of the conflict. To be fair, they do have a point. Many people are dying due to Harry saving Susan, and in raw terms that means a greater loss of life. Nevertheless, I must say that they are rather more amoral and cold-hearted than I would be. I learned in the Army the lesson that you "never leave behind a fallen comrade", so I'm more on Harry's side, to say the least. Without giving too much away, Harry quickly finds himself in a real bind, as he is forced to accept a case offered him by Mab, Queen of the Winter Fae (winter fairies). In the Dresden Files universe, the fairies vary between the Tinkerbellish ones for the minor fairies, to the major fairies being extremely powerful entities who learn more towards the "fair folk" of older stories. You know, the kind you called "fair folk" for terror of offending so they wouldn't hurt you. Granted, it is more complicated than that, and there are some truly good fairies with morality and views more in line with ours, but overall, Harry has good reason for not wanting to take the case. He is forced to do so, however, to gain the aid of the Winter Court of the fae against the Red Court vampires. If he refuses or fails in Mab's task, he will be turned over to the vamps as a peace offering to end the war. Harry is tasked with finding out who murdered the Summer Knight, and where the mantle of power from said Knight went. The Summer and Winter Knights are the mortal champions of the respective fairy courts. With the death of the Summer Knight and loss of his power, the Summer Court is severely weakened. Fearing total decimation during winter's ascent after Midsummer, the Summer Court will go to go to war with the Winter Court before the end of Midsummer. Of course, winter will have no choice but to fight back. Wars have happened before, of course, but this time it is more serious than previous wars. This time, one court or the other might win, and if that happens, the mortal world will be devastated and millions could die. Someone is driving the courts towards this conflict, and Harry must stop them before it is too late. This book is one moment of awesome after another. It just doesn't stop. From Harry and his mentor, Ebenezar McCoy, telling off the head of the Wizards, to Harry and his friends the Alphas (the group of werewolves Harry met in Fool Moon) fighting against impossible odds for victory, to the heroic sacrifice of another character, everything was just a thrill ride. Yet it wasn't all just "knock-'em, sock-'em" action either. There was character interaction, character development and a great deal of humor (as is typical for a Dresden Files book. This really was my favorite of the series so far, and with good reason. I have to say that I really like the trend started in the third book, and continued into this one so far. That being Harry having friends along for his adventures. Harry is no longer the loner who has no one to care about. Now he has friends, a surrogate family, and loved ones. This adds a layer of emotional depth to Harry that makes these otherwise dark, more noirish stories more bearable. In this case, we had a "team-up" between Harry and the Alphas, lead by Billy. The interplay between them all and Harry was sweet, and it was great to see Harry get sentimental with them and his other friends. At one point, he actually got choked up by the kindness of others. I can't say too much more without giving everything away. I'll just say that this book was terrific, and well-worth a read. Pure awesomeness. Review: My Favorite Dresden Book So Far - I’m In Okay, Summer Knight sealed it for me. I’m in for the series. If you read my other reviews of the Dresden books, you’ll discover that after book two I wasn’t sure if I would continue the series, but because I bought them, I decided to read Grave Peril(#3) and Summer Knight(#4). Book four is the best so far. Pretty much everything gets a better in Summer Knight. Harry Dresden’s world is more developed. He gets honest and up-front with Murphy, his cop friend, which I wanted him to do much earlier. Spoilers ahead: if you don’t like spoilers, skip the Brief Summary. Brief Summary Okay, here we go. At the end of the last book, Susan, Dresden’s girlfriend, has become a vampire and left town. Summer Knight opens with Dresden depressed and as low as low can be. He’s been trying to find a cure for Susan. He’s desperate for rent money, so he agrees to meet a client, but the client turns out to be Winter’s Queen Mab. His fairy godmother sold his contract to Mab, who hires him to find out who killed the Summer Knight, the Summer Queen’s knight. Things are pretty much a mess. Dresden is now contracted to Mab. As bad as his fairy godmother is, she’s preferable to Mab, who is far more devious and dangerous. With the Summer Knight dead, there’s an impending war among the fairies, which has already started to upset the balance of nature and could lead to the destruction of the world. The Red Court of the vampires is on the war path, a conflict from Grave Peril–they want Dresden delivered to them. Most of the White Council wants to strip Harry of his wizard title and turn him over to the Red Court. Someone’s put a hit out on his life. If things could get worse, I’m not sure how, but of course, they do get worse. As you might imagine, Harry’s in deep, deep dodo and all hell breaks lose. There are lots of fights, werewolves, fairies, an evil unicorn, vampires, and sundry creatures. The White Council of Wizards continued to be pedantic, dangerous nincompoops. Enemies might be preferable to the White Council. It’s a fun, sometimes frightening ride, and Harry comes to terms with some of his past. And, no I’m not going to tell you who killed Summer Knight. What I Liked 1) The story is fast paced and complex. 2) World building: things are getting fleshed out. We learn a lot more about the faeries, which probably isn’t exactly what people into faeries would expect or like. I liked the faeries. They are dangerous, unpredictable, and zany. Zany matters. 3) The puzzle is coming together. I could be wrong, but I think we’ve got the major puzzle pieces of the series in place: the wizards’ White Council, the vampire’s Red court, an archenemy lurking in the background, the Faerie Courts (winter and summer), the Never-never, and the werewolves. 4) Butcher does an excellent job of linking all these groups and creating complex characters. 5) As I said above, I like that Dresden is finally opening up to Murphy and the werewolves. For the most part, the White Council members are jerks, and keeping Murphy in the Dark was causing more harm than good. 6) The plot is tightly woven and fast paced. Negatives Either I’ve gotten used to his sexism or it was toned down in this one. I think it was toned down a bit, but he does have a knight in shining armor complex, poor man. Let’s hope that Harry keeps growing up into a man instead of staying a thirteen-year-old boy. Since I’ve mentioned this about each book, this is going to be my last hurrah about Harry’s sexism. I think he’s probably going to continue to be an ass, but I’m hoping for better. For the most part, I became so engrossed in the story that I didn’t get too picky, which is always good. ## Images ![Summer Knight: The Dresden Files, Book 4 - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51dE7lwVKIL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Media Language, Media Format** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Hands-Down the Best of the Books So Far in the Series *by M***N on February 14, 2013* Author Jim Butcher delivers another incredible tale with Summer Knight, Book Four of The Dresden Files. As the story begins, Harry is still reeling from the events of the previous book, wherein he was used by the vampires of the Red Court to initiate a war with the White Council of Wizards. It has been about eight months since then, and to say that Harry is in bad shape emotionally would be an understatement. He has been holed up as a hermit in his apartment, working desperately to cure his girlfriend (ex-girlfriend actually, as she broke it off and left town for his safety) Susan of her partial vampirism, so she can have a normal life and they can be together. The war isn't going as well for the wizards as they may have hoped, though they do have the advantage. Of course, many of his fellow wizards blame Harry for saving Susan at the cost of the conflict. To be fair, they do have a point. Many people are dying due to Harry saving Susan, and in raw terms that means a greater loss of life. Nevertheless, I must say that they are rather more amoral and cold-hearted than I would be. I learned in the Army the lesson that you "never leave behind a fallen comrade", so I'm more on Harry's side, to say the least. Without giving too much away, Harry quickly finds himself in a real bind, as he is forced to accept a case offered him by Mab, Queen of the Winter Fae (winter fairies). In the Dresden Files universe, the fairies vary between the Tinkerbellish ones for the minor fairies, to the major fairies being extremely powerful entities who learn more towards the "fair folk" of older stories. You know, the kind you called "fair folk" for terror of offending so they wouldn't hurt you. Granted, it is more complicated than that, and there are some truly good fairies with morality and views more in line with ours, but overall, Harry has good reason for not wanting to take the case. He is forced to do so, however, to gain the aid of the Winter Court of the fae against the Red Court vampires. If he refuses or fails in Mab's task, he will be turned over to the vamps as a peace offering to end the war. Harry is tasked with finding out who murdered the Summer Knight, and where the mantle of power from said Knight went. The Summer and Winter Knights are the mortal champions of the respective fairy courts. With the death of the Summer Knight and loss of his power, the Summer Court is severely weakened. Fearing total decimation during winter's ascent after Midsummer, the Summer Court will go to go to war with the Winter Court before the end of Midsummer. Of course, winter will have no choice but to fight back. Wars have happened before, of course, but this time it is more serious than previous wars. This time, one court or the other might win, and if that happens, the mortal world will be devastated and millions could die. Someone is driving the courts towards this conflict, and Harry must stop them before it is too late. This book is one moment of awesome after another. It just doesn't stop. From Harry and his mentor, Ebenezar McCoy, telling off the head of the Wizards, to Harry and his friends the Alphas (the group of werewolves Harry met in Fool Moon) fighting against impossible odds for victory, to the heroic sacrifice of another character, everything was just a thrill ride. Yet it wasn't all just "knock-'em, sock-'em" action either. There was character interaction, character development and a great deal of humor (as is typical for a Dresden Files book. This really was my favorite of the series so far, and with good reason. I have to say that I really like the trend started in the third book, and continued into this one so far. That being Harry having friends along for his adventures. Harry is no longer the loner who has no one to care about. Now he has friends, a surrogate family, and loved ones. This adds a layer of emotional depth to Harry that makes these otherwise dark, more noirish stories more bearable. In this case, we had a "team-up" between Harry and the Alphas, lead by Billy. The interplay between them all and Harry was sweet, and it was great to see Harry get sentimental with them and his other friends. At one point, he actually got choked up by the kindness of others. I can't say too much more without giving everything away. I'll just say that this book was terrific, and well-worth a read. Pure awesomeness. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ My Favorite Dresden Book So Far *by C***R on January 21, 2015* I’m In Okay, Summer Knight sealed it for me. I’m in for the series. If you read my other reviews of the Dresden books, you’ll discover that after book two I wasn’t sure if I would continue the series, but because I bought them, I decided to read Grave Peril(#3) and Summer Knight(#4). Book four is the best so far. Pretty much everything gets a better in Summer Knight. Harry Dresden’s world is more developed. He gets honest and up-front with Murphy, his cop friend, which I wanted him to do much earlier. Spoilers ahead: if you don’t like spoilers, skip the Brief Summary. Brief Summary Okay, here we go. At the end of the last book, Susan, Dresden’s girlfriend, has become a vampire and left town. Summer Knight opens with Dresden depressed and as low as low can be. He’s been trying to find a cure for Susan. He’s desperate for rent money, so he agrees to meet a client, but the client turns out to be Winter’s Queen Mab. His fairy godmother sold his contract to Mab, who hires him to find out who killed the Summer Knight, the Summer Queen’s knight. Things are pretty much a mess. Dresden is now contracted to Mab. As bad as his fairy godmother is, she’s preferable to Mab, who is far more devious and dangerous. With the Summer Knight dead, there’s an impending war among the fairies, which has already started to upset the balance of nature and could lead to the destruction of the world. The Red Court of the vampires is on the war path, a conflict from Grave Peril–they want Dresden delivered to them. Most of the White Council wants to strip Harry of his wizard title and turn him over to the Red Court. Someone’s put a hit out on his life. If things could get worse, I’m not sure how, but of course, they do get worse. As you might imagine, Harry’s in deep, deep dodo and all hell breaks lose. There are lots of fights, werewolves, fairies, an evil unicorn, vampires, and sundry creatures. The White Council of Wizards continued to be pedantic, dangerous nincompoops. Enemies might be preferable to the White Council. It’s a fun, sometimes frightening ride, and Harry comes to terms with some of his past. And, no I’m not going to tell you who killed Summer Knight. What I Liked 1) The story is fast paced and complex. 2) World building: things are getting fleshed out. We learn a lot more about the faeries, which probably isn’t exactly what people into faeries would expect or like. I liked the faeries. They are dangerous, unpredictable, and zany. Zany matters. 3) The puzzle is coming together. I could be wrong, but I think we’ve got the major puzzle pieces of the series in place: the wizards’ White Council, the vampire’s Red court, an archenemy lurking in the background, the Faerie Courts (winter and summer), the Never-never, and the werewolves. 4) Butcher does an excellent job of linking all these groups and creating complex characters. 5) As I said above, I like that Dresden is finally opening up to Murphy and the werewolves. For the most part, the White Council members are jerks, and keeping Murphy in the Dark was causing more harm than good. 6) The plot is tightly woven and fast paced. Negatives Either I’ve gotten used to his sexism or it was toned down in this one. I think it was toned down a bit, but he does have a knight in shining armor complex, poor man. Let’s hope that Harry keeps growing up into a man instead of staying a thirteen-year-old boy. Since I’ve mentioned this about each book, this is going to be my last hurrah about Harry’s sexism. I think he’s probably going to continue to be an ass, but I’m hoping for better. For the most part, I became so engrossed in the story that I didn’t get too picky, which is always good. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ favorite so far *by S***O on July 2, 2014* I read the first four of the Dresden Files books right in a row and made myself promise to catch up on book reviewing before continuing the series (I took advantage of a Kindle daily deal to get the first 7 books but will be buying the rest at regular price...)! As has been a theme in previous books (with vampires and werewolves), we get more information on a paranormal "species" in this volume -- the Summer and Winter Courts of the faeries, including their members and powers, their seasonal conflicts, their governance, the existence of changelings (half-fae/half-human kids), and so forth. I'm glad Butcher pulled back in this volume to focus pretty much only on the faeries because book 3 got a little complicated with fae, ghosts, faith-based power, and vampire politics. I feel like I have a better grasp of what was going on, supernaturally, with this book. One of my favorite scenes so far also occurred in this book (it was the one at the Wal-Mart; I won't say anything else because I don't want to spoil anything). I thought the action was described, the danger was real, and I liked that Dresden had to work with Murphy and didn't solve everything himself with fire (for once). In general, he is forced to accept help here -- both from people he has reason to trust and from those whose motives he questions. I preferred this over the hero complex of book 2 and the rather spectacular magical ending of book 3. I also thought characterization continued to improve in this book. Dresden has really let himself go at the beginning, and we hear a little bit of Murphy's background as well. Dresden has to confront his past in this volume, and he finally opens up about some of what happened to him as a teenager. This turn is taking the series a little bit away from the hardboiled detective style of story that we saw before (especially in books 1 and 2), but I like where it's going. Despite the turn away from the hardboiled style, there's still a mystery in this book -- someone has killed the Summer Knight -- a mortal individual who was affiliated with the Fae Summer Court -- and Dresden gets roped into looking for the killer. I feel like the writing style has improved, as well. It's still first-person POV, but there's more humor in this volume than in past books (book 3 had a fair amount, as well), and it works very well with the character and story. Once again, this book is easy (and quick) to read. There are a few 4-letter words but they don't break immersion; they feel totally plausible coming from someone like Dresden who lives in the modern era (even though I would assume he doesn't have a lot of access to media, what with his very presence causing electronics to malfunction). I can't help but draw a comparison to Harry Potter #5, since this book opens with a wizard (named Harry, who has a last name that is a famous type of pottery) being called before other wizards to defend himself and his actions (complete with Latin words and robes...). I'm sure this is deliberate since the Harry Potter book was released about 6 years before this one. Personally, I find it humorous (your mileage may vary). We learn more about the Wizards' White Council in this book, although those scenes are short and mostly kept to the beginning of the book. The setting is the same as always (i.e., Chicago and environs) and works as well this time as it has in the other books. Some characters from previous books appear here (Karrin Murphy, Morgan, Billy and his werewolf friends, etc.) so it is definitely beneficial to go back and read volumes 1, 2, and 3 before picking up this one. Another great thing about this series is that individual volumes are self-contained in terms of an overall plot, but that each contributes something to worldbuilding and to the overall story arc of the series. The backdrop of this book is the war between wizards and vampires that is brewing following the conclusion of book 3; the wizards need to be able to travel through Fae lands and must do a favor for the Faeries in return. That's where Harry and his quest to figure out who murdered the Summer Knight come in (if he solves the case, the wizards get their access). I think Jim Butcher has done a great job of bringing all the elements together -- a mystery, furthering the series' story arc, adding humor, character development, and worldbuilding. This is definitely my favorite Dresden novel yet. Even if you're not enthralled by the first two books (I thought they were good, but not as good as this one), stick around for The Summer Knight. 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