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Hi!!
I am finally starting on the Dresden books. I have competed book 1 and just started book 2, I'm assuming I'm reading in the correct order (Storm Front & now Fool Moon) based on the list inside the front cover.
My question: there seems to be quite a few references to adventures he has prior to whatever is happening. For example he just made mention of a trip to Minnesota where someone thought that they saw something in a lake ... so I'm wondering if I am reading in the correct order or if these other adventures are reflected on later ???

The author does that a little I the beginning, from what I can remember. I think it's the world building method, a way to make the character seem like he has unknown and previous adventures since the reader is just jumping in while he's already established (or winging it 😂). Those smooth out as the series goes on and later books will reference past adventures the reader has witnessed.

I don't recall that, but you're definitely reading them in the right order, this isn't a spinoff of something else.

You can however go to his website, there are a couple prequel short stories there for free and showcase him encountering Murphy for the first time, but they aren't required. I agree with Rachel, its just to show Dresden didn't just appear on the planet with the start of the first book.

There is one book later on that does reference a short story and Butcher asked forgiveness of his fans for making that mistake (and I was one of those who had NOT read that particular story).

The usual rule is that a writer shouldn't require readers to follow up with the short stories for important plot points, short stories are generally asides that are fun to read but don't affect the overall series arc. After all, some shorts are really hard to hunt down, and can get expensive buying all those anthologies (though now with shorts being their own ebooks that might change)

Awesome. Thank you both. I'm enjoying the second as mich, if not more than the first. I feel bad for not having started sooner.

His writing and storytelling improve steadily over the course of the series, starts out good gets great. Very good stuff.

I've read them all, and getting rather impatient for the next one, been a while, and there was only one I found that was too dark and depressing, which was out of character since there's usually a fair amount of humour even when Harry is getting beaten to a pulp (which is pretty much all the time, heh). Not many authors can keep a series going this long without running out of ideas or getting too repetitive, although some repetition and consistency is needed for readers to get what they expect from the book.

I read the first one not long ago ,and I enjoyed it, good character and I line the urban fantasy,i good a few more books I gotta eat before I start full moon but I'm definitely hooked