Hm, the Cassius thing makes sense. the Lea thing COULD work- she lives right on the other side of the NeverNever, after all- but I dunno, it feels... off. Honestly, it feels like it's a setup for a time-travel book a few years down the road.
I've been thinking about that. Harry is already starting to justify the actions he's taking. He may keep going down that path until he starts breaking more of the Laws of Magic, and ends up going back in time. it'd be interesting if his future self turned out to be Cowl. But barring any time travel incidents, Lea is still the most likely culprit.
I guess... although the assassination didn't ACCIDENTALLY fail, it was DESIGNED to fail. The assassin was a "small arms specialist," the kind of weapon that Harry is in fact best suited to defend against. And why disguise as Susan?
I actually picked up my copy of Changes to see exactly what happened then. Harry says Stevie D had about a 50-50 chance of killing him, depending on how fast he could get his magic up and running. But it may not have been the Eebs, since they wouldn't have known where to find him. That's another mystery that we need answered.
And if it was the Eebs, they made Stevie D think it was Susan just to sow dissension in the ranks. Or else to get Harry to track Susan down so they could follow him with the Ick and eliminate everyone at once. Who knows?
Eh. The books tend to take place about a year apart- even if everything is crazy for a month or so after each book, that still leaves a good chunk of time to send an owl over to the Gatekeeper going "Hey! What's with this island I've got?"
You would think. But if Harry does that, then Jim Butcher doesn't have anything to reveal in future books. So Harry doesn't ask the Mysterious Mentor Figure for advice because the author doesn't want him to.
Not JUST those- he had a whole sack full of illegal and special magical stuff that he threw in his sack. Powdered... ghostbane, was it? Something else? Special stuff, regardless.
Depleted uranium dust, mixed with a few other things. He used it against a ghost and his godmother in Grave Peril. Not sure what happened to the bag, though. He had it in Lea's limo just before the assault on Chichen Itza, but only stored the Swords and Bob on the boat at the end. Somewhere along the way, he lost all of his special ingredients.
Sweeeeeeeet. I've heard there are some short stories scattered around as well, I've gotta check those out.
The short stories are pretty good, flesh out Harry even more. Jim Butcher has two posted on his website, and I read another two in a couple of anthologies. The November release will be most, if not all, of the short stories, plus this new novella. As far as I'm aware, Aftermath will be the only one that actually advances a storyline.
Just finished reading all of the Dresden Files... - Here Be Spoilers.
- 13/05/2010 07:44:06 AM
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SPOILERS
- 13/05/2010 06:12:15 PM
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It's DISCUSSION. I figured that'd be obvious.
- 13/05/2010 06:34:17 PM
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you'd think, but people are stupid
- 14/05/2010 12:22:05 AM
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does anyone else think that it is
- 13/05/2010 09:48:26 PM
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