Twelve Months by Jim Butcher
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This is a special kind of book. Not because it doesn't have action (It definitely does) or that it isn't full of great snark (it does) or that it's brimming with plot and great characters (they're here and still in full, continued development), but because this isn't a novel about any of that.

Sure, it's UF, it's DRESDEN after all, but it's also something a hellofalot more important.

Healing.

It's a novel about healing. And it really comes from the heart. It made me burst into tears several times.

But wait, isn't this supposed to be a novel of adventure and magic and great heroism against impossible odds and damn, didn't that last novel just blow up Chicago?

Well, yeah. That's kinda the point. It takes TIME to heal. It also takes a bit of soul-searching, tears, and learning how to LIVE again.

It's a novel about pulling yourself out of depression just as much as it is about rebuilding a destroyed city.

And I very much appreciate it. Deeply.

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