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As I understand it Bryce Send a noteboard - 31/07/2011 06:02:39 PM
Maybe I need to reread it, but some stuff just felt... odd.

1. What was the deal with Fitz and the whole "sorcerer gang?"


I'm assuming that Fitz will be the "new Molly." I don't know that he'll be Harry's apprentice, but he'll be someone that's fairly young that Harry can work with and excorsize some of those demons from his past with. He might even end up being an apprentice to Mort. This side-plot didn't make a lot of sense to me, either. But I'm willing to roll with it, since we only get to see through Harry's eyes, and he was MIA for a half a year where evidently a LOT happened.

2. What, exactly, was Uriel's plot?

Again, I might be missing something. But here's the sequence of events, as far as I can tel:

-a Bad Guy whispers a lie to Harry at exactly the right time, making Harry believe he'll turn into a monster if he becomes the Winter Knight
-Harry arranges for himself to be assassinated after he saves his daughter
-Harry is shot by Kincaid, and his body sinks into the cold darkness of the water
-Mab and Demonreach (and a "parasite" who provides him blood?) work at bringing Harry back to life, for 6 months.
-Suddenly Uriel takes Harry's soul, and deceives him into going back to Chicago as a "ghost"
-Harry defeats Corpsetaker and remembers arranging his assasination.
-Harry is revived, and goes off to become the Winter Knight. After Uriel whispers to him that Mab can't turn Harry into a monster, as Harry has free will.


It just seems like... I don't know. Making Harry remember what he did would have been pretty easy- we've seen Mab work mind magic effortlessly. And Harry already knew he didn't have to become a monster- I feel like that message was imparted to him several times towards the end of Changes, once he became the Winter Knight.

So... was the whole point of this to stop Corpsetaker? To boost the morale of Harry's friends? Why did it take 6 months to revive Harry, and he only awoke once he remembered what was going on?


Yeah, I felt like this was a little bit weak. I think Butcher struggled in this book in terms of plot rather than character. It's clearly an important book in terms of moving characters along, and getting their attitudes into a new place to give a new dynamic to the future Dresden books. I'm hoping he proves me wrong in future volumes of the series, but this one reminds me of the earlier books, where there were some loose things that just didn't make much sense.
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Ghost Story is out eagleeye - 26/07/2011 09:44:33 AM 1366 Views
What did you think of it? Nebhead - 26/07/2011 04:56:26 PM 1365 Views
The short version? Wibble - 26/07/2011 11:12:10 PM 927 Views
I agree. But I wasn't expecting anything more, so no big disappointment Cannoli - 27/07/2011 11:02:45 PM 1175 Views
Having thought about it for 24 hours *we're into SPOILER territory here on in folks* Wibble - 27/07/2011 11:22:15 PM 1137 Views
Yeah, it also suggests future books will have less of some characters Cannoli - 28/07/2011 03:09:04 AM 1224 Views
Chinese Democracy Bryce - 29/07/2011 06:06:23 AM 1308 Views
Here There be *Spoilers* Quasi-Review Bryce - 29/07/2011 06:25:36 AM 1171 Views
Re: Here There be *Spoilers* Quasi-Review AliasRY - 31/07/2011 03:13:38 PM 1104 Views
Nah... this wouldn't have gone well with Changes at all beetnemesis - 31/07/2011 05:07:13 PM 1058 Views
Hmmm.... thats a good point *NM* AliasRY - 31/07/2011 05:39:54 PM 468 Views
Woohoo! Finally finished it! ...not bad. I have two major questions about the plot (spoilers) beetnemesis - 31/07/2011 05:24:44 PM 1025 Views
As I understand it Bryce - 31/07/2011 06:02:39 PM 1066 Views
Yeah. The individual bits were awesome, but it does seem like it wasn't a very coherent whole beetnemesis - 31/07/2011 06:11:25 PM 947 Views
As to point 2... fionwe1987 - 31/07/2011 06:16:17 PM 1002 Views
Fair enough. Though I'm pretty sure your second paragraph is wrong beetnemesis - 31/07/2011 11:34:05 PM 935 Views
Nah... fionwe1987 - 01/08/2011 12:42:00 AM 940 Views
Eh. I think you're projecting what we know to be true as readers beetnemesis - 01/08/2011 03:59:04 AM 949 Views
Not really... fionwe1987 - 01/08/2011 05:13:36 AM 1145 Views
Re: Not really... beetnemesis - 01/08/2011 02:33:58 PM 1045 Views
Well Wibble - 31/07/2011 08:45:17 PM 928 Views
How would that do that? beetnemesis - 31/07/2011 11:37:08 PM 1002 Views
A non specific title Wibble - 31/07/2011 11:51:59 PM 1353 Views
Probably correct about the first one beetnemesis - 01/08/2011 04:01:54 AM 952 Views
Some things I liked: (Butters is basically Neville Longbottom, btw) beetnemesis - 31/07/2011 06:08:39 PM 1149 Views
Re: Ghost Story is out dacole - 31/07/2011 06:22:40 PM 953 Views
Re: Ghost Story is out eagleeye - 02/08/2011 02:16:19 PM 997 Views
I'll be honest, I was expecting a different interpretation of next book's title beetnemesis - 02/08/2011 02:29:10 PM 916 Views
that would be cheating wouldn't it eagleeye - 02/08/2011 02:56:03 PM 1003 Views
Meh. I don't really care about the "power" beetnemesis - 02/08/2011 07:24:09 PM 945 Views
Completely agree eagleeye - 02/08/2011 11:35:11 PM 939 Views
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