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What if its not Thomas
Grifter:
I do wish Butcher had made this more of a case file. With a little more, Harry could have investigated things better. He could have reviewed the footage, interviewed the survivors, and done the things that will now likely be impossible in the second half (interviews and reviewing footage seems unlikely in ongoing battle and power loss across the city).
That way it would have felt like a story, with Harry coming to some conclusions (that may have been wrong) and ultimately deciding to rescue Thomas as a conclusion to that arc. Then the second book would be about the battle, with some additional info dropping for the case.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Grifter on July 18, 2020, 05:50:14 PM ---I do wish Butcher had made this more of a case file. With a little more, Harry could have investigated things better. He could have reviewed the footage, interviewed the survivors, and done the things that will now likely be impossible in the second half (interviews and reviewing footage seems unlikely in ongoing battle and power loss across the city).
That way it would have felt like a story, with Harry coming to some conclusions (that may have been wrong) and ultimately deciding to rescue Thomas as a conclusion to that arc. Then the second book would be about the battle, with some additional info dropping for the case.
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Yeah, there were parts that were really good, the writing we'd expect from Butcher, however it seemed overly "sketchy" if that is the right word to me. It jumped around, everyone seems to be pissed at Harry, so what else is new? However we've no why for any of it. Out of the blue Thomas decides to assassinate a head of state, seemingly no connection made to anything as to why. Even the rescue jumps around a lot.. So Peace Talks, what are they after? Why wasn't the Merlin there? Where is Ancient Mai? Why all of a sudden with the exception maybe of Cristos the Senior Council look and act like nursing home runaways..
Second Aristh:
I agree. Explosions are not Thomas's style, and it's hard to believe that Thomas decided to assassinate Etri at the center of his power without an escape strategy.
I think it's more plausible that Thomas was in the wrong place at the wrong time. If Thomas is in the room with Etri at the same time that an "assassination attempt" happened and if the real attacker disappeared, the svartalves would assume they caught the assassin. (Also, I can't find the on-camera part. Was the attempt caught on camera?)
Overall, it put this one at the BC's feet instead of Lara or Mab (if they don't know the family relationship, it's easy enough to assume Harry would help a frequent ally). It's an easy distraction setup for Harry so they can get him indirectly.
Grifter:
--- Quote from: Mira on July 18, 2020, 05:59:09 PM ---Yeah, there were parts that were really good, the writing we'd expect from Butcher, however it seemed overly "sketchy" if that is the right word to me. It jumped around, everyone seems to be pissed at Harry, so what else is new? However we've no why for any of it. Out of the blue Thomas decides to assassinate a head of state, seemingly no connection made to anything as to why. Even the rescue jumps around a lot.. So Peace Talks, what are they after? Why wasn't the Merlin there? Where is Ancient Mai? Why all of a sudden with the exception maybe of Cristos the Senior Council look and act like nursing home runaways..
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I totally get that he didn't intend for this to be two books, so all of those things are unanswered in the first half. But I wish there'd been an opportunity to adjust accordingly once the decision was made to split it.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Grifter on July 18, 2020, 06:06:11 PM ---I totally get that he didn't intend for this to be two books, so all of those things are unanswered in the first half. But I wish there'd been an opportunity to adjust accordingly once the decision was made to split it.
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Yes, what is sad, depending on how the battle goes down in the next, these questions won't be answered. It almost seems like Jim couldn't decide if the book was going to be about rescuing Thomas, without any attention to his motivations, which is usually the point of the mystery, one leading to the other. The title of the book is Peace Talks, yet the theme seems secondary to rescuing Thomas, until the climax when the Fomor show up, but until that point no sense of what was on the line as far as the Accords go. Just what were Marcone, Mab, and company expecting?
Or why suddenly Harry has become a pariah, and if he was considered such why in the hell would he be on the Warden Security team? One step further I wish Jim had done a chapter on the meeting the Wardens had before the first party.. He dismisses it in the first line of the chapter dealing with the first get together as boring... However if they went into just what the problem is with Harry and why they are still allowing him to be on the team, I think it would have been very interesting.
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