Dresden has been spending every moment searching for a cure for his girlfriend's near vampirism, letting everything else fall by the wayside. Then it rains frogs and the White Council comes to town. Dresden's on trial and the only way to save himself is to settle a dispute between two Fairy Queens. When their disagreement goes global, time becomes pressing and a lot more is at stake than the Council and his girlfriend's taste for blood.
Impression:Summer Knight slips back a little, more at the level of Fool Moon than Grave Peril. The war with the vampires begun at the end of Peril is almost completely ignored. Its affects are mentioned, but it only minutely complicates the plot despite the fact that the vampires want Dresden very, very dead. The Fairy Queens, whose motives are supposed to be beyond human understanding, are portrayed as very human. The mystery at the heart of their dispute is well done, and the writing itself is very solid, but certain events at the end of the book puzzled me. There's no sense of depth as there was in Peril and none of the characters really stood out for me. Which is not to say it's not an enjoyable read, it is, but Butcher has slipped back into fluff entertainment rather than something that engages the mind more fully.
