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kbrizzle:
What do you think about the presence of both Blamps & Whamps in this book? It seems to me that Mavra was looking to take on Lord Raith eventually, which makes sense given his role in the current irrelevance of the BCV. However, I feel like something more was going on there.

apgrey:
  There is a long standing grudge between the White and Black Courts.  In the Dresden universe, Bram Stoker was a White Court agent who published a guide on how to destroy Black Court vampires.
  It is not surprising that one of the Black Court would act against Lord Raith.

APG

raidem:
There seemed to be some weirdness between Thomas and Mavra.  Or at least, there was some understood agreement behind the scenes between the two.  Reading the books it seemed like Thomas was safe from Mavra.

Bad Alias:
From what was in the book, it seemed that Mavra was not targeting the Raiths, but was happy to take them out along with Harry.

From what we know outside of the book, more was going on than we knew or maybe even know now. The White King was in with outsiders. Black Court is connected to outsiders. Mavra was setting up Harry for blackmail (or maybe that was just plan B). To my recollection, Blood Rites is the only book where there are two basically unrelated plots happening simultaneously that don't turn out to be the same case by the end of the book. To me, it seems like an oddity that may be pointing to something more.

Snark Knight:

--- Quote from: Bad Alias on January 02, 2019, 09:18:08 PM ---From what was in the book, it seemed that Mavra was not targeting the Raiths, but was happy to take them out along with Harry.

--- End quote ---

Marva wasn't even seriously trying to take out Harry. If she'd wanted him dead, she had at least the chance to cap him from behind a veil instead of collecting blackmail polaroids for later. Or just pitched a rock through his head at a considerable fraction of the speed of sound rather than send minions to threaten him.

At most, sending her progeny after him to provoke him into attacking the nest was analogous to Mab's tests or Mother Winter's display with the cleaver. The point isn't to kill him, but if he fails to handle a little challenge it just shows he wasn't worth manipulating after all.

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