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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 4457059" data-attributes="member: 907">Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files is pretty light reading - kinda downerish in parts (especially around book 3-4), but it's not the super-heavy/epic stuff of GRR Martin or Tolkien. Harry Dresden is a modern-day wizard/private investigator who does a bit of consulting work for the Chicago PD as well as deal with his own problems. So far in the books he has encountered (as friends or foes) demons, faeries, holy knights, fallen angels, ghosts, evil wizards, necromancers, zombies, vampires (of three different types), werewolves (of four different types), and the mob.The books are kind of like Buffy meets Philip Marlowe. Buffy supplies the supernatural, some angst, and pop culture references, while Marlowe provides noir and investigative stuff.As an example regarding the tone of the books, one of them starts with Our Hero running through a burning building, carrying a crate full of puppies, while dodging the attacks of flying demon monkeys throwing burning feces.The author has also written a more traditional fantasy series called Codex Aldera, which is only up to four books as of now (instead of 10 like the Dresden books).</blockquote>