I liked the Codex Alera ones but tried Dresden Files and just didn't like it either. Not only was the MC sexist and annoyingly unlikeable, but the worldbuilding was cliche and spare (I actually had to look up that it was in Chicago when I reviewed it on my DW, and that was a couple days after I read it-- there was just no sense of place, and it didn't stick with me the way other mystery and UF series' locales have) and the magic system read like it was ganked from D&D with a sprinkling of Harry Potter on top.

It also hit every UF cliche and PI noir cliche in the book. I can somewhat understand the first, since it was out before a lot of those elements had a chance to become cliche, but still. It was nothing I haven't read a thousand times and done better elsewhere.