Maybe I need to reread it, but some stuff just felt... odd.
1. What was the deal with Fitz and the whole "sorcerer gang?"
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?
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
- 26/07/2011 09:44:33 AM
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What did you think of it?
- 26/07/2011 04:56:26 PM
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The short version?
- 26/07/2011 11:12:10 PM
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I agree. But I wasn't expecting anything more, so no big disappointment
- 27/07/2011 11:02:45 PM
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Having thought about it for 24 hours *we're into SPOILER territory here on in folks*
- 27/07/2011 11:22:15 PM
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Yeah, it also suggests future books will have less of some characters
- 28/07/2011 03:09:04 AM
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Here There be *Spoilers* Quasi-Review
- 29/07/2011 06:25:36 AM
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Re: Here There be *Spoilers* Quasi-Review
- 31/07/2011 03:13:38 PM
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Woohoo! Finally finished it! ...not bad. I have two major questions about the plot (spoilers)
- 31/07/2011 05:24:44 PM
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As I understand it
- 31/07/2011 06:02:39 PM
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Yeah. The individual bits were awesome, but it does seem like it wasn't a very coherent whole
- 31/07/2011 06:11:25 PM
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As to point 2...
- 31/07/2011 06:16:17 PM
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Fair enough. Though I'm pretty sure your second paragraph is wrong
- 31/07/2011 11:34:05 PM
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Nah...
- 01/08/2011 12:42:00 AM
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Eh. I think you're projecting what we know to be true as readers
- 01/08/2011 03:59:04 AM
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Well
- 31/07/2011 08:45:17 PM
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How would that do that?
- 31/07/2011 11:37:08 PM
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Some things I liked: (Butters is basically Neville Longbottom, btw)
- 31/07/2011 06:08:39 PM
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Re: Ghost Story is out
- 02/08/2011 02:16:19 PM
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I'll be honest, I was expecting a different interpretation of next book's title
- 02/08/2011 02:29:10 PM
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that would be cheating wouldn't it
- 02/08/2011 02:56:03 PM
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