The new Dresden Files is...

[effervescible]

...finished!

Hooooooly shit.

eta: spoilers in the comments

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[the-wanlorn.livejournal.com]

I KNOW, RIGHT???

[jaina.livejournal.com]

RIGHT. Directed more at the Harry/Murphy AT LONG LAST than the cliffhanger, though. And the huge changes (hur hur). I mean, yes, I very much want to know how he gets out of this but...DUDE, HARRY AND MURPHY WERE GONNA BANG.

[the-wanlorn.livejournal.com]

BEST THING EVER

And like, I am both super excited to finally get to this book, and yet also SUPER DREADING IT BECAUSE OH MY GOD SO UPSETTING. DDDDDDDDD:

[jaina.livejournal.com]

Seriously. Honestly, I don't love the secret child thing. THAT IS SO OVERDONE. But if we had to have it, at least it was done in an entertaining fashion.

[arcadiasilver.livejournal.com]

A coliseum.

A COLISEUM

[jaina.livejournal.com]

DID YOU SEE

AND THEN THERE WAS

AND HE WAS

DAAAAAAAAAMN

[arcadiasilver.livejournal.com]

WINTER KNIGHT HARRY IS TERRIFYING AND AWESOME.

THAT JUST MIGHT TRUMP MCCOY'S PULLING A SATELLITE ON TOP OF THE REDS.

[jaina.livejournal.com]

THE BLACKSTAFF

[arcadiasilver.livejournal.com]

THE MOTHERFUCKING BLACKSTAFF.

ALSO, MURPHY CAN ONLY RUN FROM BEING A KNIGHT FOR SO LONG. SHE WAS TOO BAD ASS IN CHANGES. ITS FATE.

[jaina.livejournal.com]

Also eeeeee Grandpa Ebenezar. That may have pinged my substitute father kink (...for lack of a better term) pretty hard.

[arcadiasilver.livejournal.com]

I think Ebenezar has been hoping for substitute grandchildren for a loooooong time.

[aevalin.livejournal.com]

Not looking at comments. Just got the digital version an hour ago. Have looked at page one and OH MY :)

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

In this case it was very organic and made a lot of sense.

[aevalin.livejournal.com]

Ok. Didn't see the end of that coming. I was like MURPHY...HARRY...YAY! And then WHAT? WHAT THE HELL?

It was Col. Mustard in the living room.

[swordbreaker1.livejournal.com]

Actually, I'm pretty sure that it was Kincaid that took Harry out. They only foreshadow Harry getting shot by a sniper maybe four times in the book, so it wasn't a COMPLETE surprise.

All I want to say is this: Did you notice when Odin pulled Harry into his little corporate headquarters for a job interview? That may not be what Harry thought was going on, but that is exactly what happened.

Dollars to donuts that we find out in the next book that Harry was killed to free him from Winter's clutches only to be brought back by Gard as a returned Hero.

Just saying. She is a Valkyrie. Harry is most definitely a Hero. Odin sure seems to have a collection of dead Heroes hanging around waiting for a major event. They did mention like two times that the only way that Faerie Knight can be let go is by death, as it is a lifetime appointment. Odin knew that Harry would choose Mab as his patron, and the only practical way to free Harry was to have him killed, then brough back to life by one of his Valkyries. (Gard)