No actual peace talks. Boo.

I was hoping for a plot where the main bad guy was Lord Raith trying to get Harry and Thomas killed by proxy, and it even looked to be going that way at first. If he can get them both ganked, then he gets his mojo back. Seems like a goal Nemesis might pursue, since he was clearly an ally to He Who Walks Behind. I'm sure the Outsiders want Lord Raith in command again.

It seems pretty obvious that Ethnui's impenetrable armor will part like Butter to a certain recently-reconstituted holy sword. Nothing we know can cut it / we don't have the craft. Heavily foreshadowed.

What was Redcap doing there? Weren't all of Mauve's retinue Nfected at the end of Cold Days? Didn't Leah take years to get cured, and only because she was willing? Oh, well, gives me hope that Mab will get Cat Sith back.

So many short story characters. Ugh.

Freydis was annoying. I'm betting she's going to die.

It seems to me that once Harry realized that Ethnui and the Fomor were going to war against the gathered members of the Accords and Mab, he was free to abandon his plan to lock up Thomas in Demonreach and let Lara hide him/take care of him instead. The Svartalves suddenly have bigger things to worry about.

Harry is optimistic that the Paranetters will be safer than most because they're going to hide / gather in 'safe places' like Mac's? What makes Mac's safer than anywhere else from a nation who doesn't recognize the accords. Far more likely the Fomor would seek out places like that to destroy.

Anyone who's looking for a Zune in Chicago that's still working should check the Carpenter house. I bet the Eye of Balor can't hex through that threshold!