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Cold Days Book Club - Chapters 45-53 **MAJOR SPOILERS**
jlayne:
--- Quote from: rickbman on December 05, 2012, 07:55:51 PM ---Seeing how Michael and Charity deal with this is going to be interesting.
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I'm buying popcorn when the next book comes out, just so I can have it on hand when I get to that part.
jlayne:
--- Quote from: Priscellie on December 01, 2012, 07:58:00 PM ---The art is by Lee Moyer. I was the model for Lee's reference photos of the various Mollys. You can see a handful here!
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Just stumbled upon this. That calendar is awesome, that picture is awesome. You, therefore must also be awesome.
JustKidding:
What I find pretty stunning is that Harry summoned(or encountered, in the case of the mother summer) all of the senior powers of faerie in a very short period of time. Bro goes hard. Also, mother winter is a stone cold boss. She is most definitely the scariest queen. Butcher has a talent for developing characters like her very richly. I had to chuckle with the whole window soot thing and cleaver business. I wonder what would have happened to the poor boy if the cleaver had hit him...(also what the heck is it made out of? I've always wondered what the fae use instead of steel. I don't think I would put it past the mothers to actually use real steel/iron, though.)
The only thing that is really ticking me off about this book is Harry's freaking messed up daughter issues. It totally jars my image of his character to see him scared to introduce himself to his daughter's life. Yeah, yeah, he has reasons, but I think a big warm fuzzy soul like Harry's is not going to scare away anyone. The girl won't be afraid of big scarred dudes, Michael and Sanya are around all the time. I wish he could have gone to see her before the whole Molly/Maeve thingy went and added a whole layer of distraction. Makes me sad, folks.
DragonEyes:
--- Quote from: JustKidding on December 06, 2012, 03:42:05 AM ---What I find pretty stunning is that Harry summoned(or encountered, in the case of the mother summer) all of the senior powers of faerie in a very short period of time. Bro goes hard. Also, mother winter is a stone cold boss. She is most definitely the scariest queen. Butcher has a talent for developing characters like her very richly. I had to chuckle with the whole window soot thing and cleaver business. I wonder what would have happened to the poor boy if the cleaver had hit him...(also what the heck is it made out of? I've always wondered what the fae use instead of steel. I don't think I would put it past the mothers to actually use real steel/iron, though.)
The only thing that is really ticking me off about this book is Harry's freaking messed up daughter issues. It totally jars my image of his character to see him scared to introduce himself to his daughter's life. Yeah, yeah, he has reasons, but I think a big warm fuzzy soul like Harry's is not going to scare away anyone. The girl won't be afraid of big scarred dudes, Michael and Sanya are around all the time. I wish he could have gone to see her before the whole Molly/Maeve thingy went and added a whole layer of distraction. Makes me sad, folks.
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That is absolutely believable on many levels. First, Dresden doesn't know her likes or dislikes, her wants or fears. He doesn't have a place in her life and doesn't have a purchase to close in with her other than "I had sex with and killed your mom... wanna play Barbies?" Second, Dresden isn't the most emotionally stable person EVEN WITHOUT the mantle. Add in the mantle, he's pretty much a monster in the making. He has to learn to control that before he can even consider getting involved in her life. Third, Harry feels like he screwed up with Molly, something fierce. He probably doesn't want to "try try again" with a nine-year-old girl. And fourth, she's at Michael's house. Michael got out and Harry feels guilty as hell for what happened to him to get him out. Michael wants out and Harry doesn't want to bring him back in, conscious or unconscious. He screws up the lives of everyone he touches, something fierce (in his eyes, not mine.) Why would bring that on his daughter and back onto Michael?
jlayne:
And now confronting Maggie means talking to Michael and Charity about Molly. God help Harry. He's a dead man.
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