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Anyone else... disappointed? [PT/BG spoilers]
Mira:
--- Quote ---Based on what Jim said about no one being what they seemed, I wouldn't be completely surprised if the Merlin shows up to Harry, acknowledges that he knows about the Grey Council and has from the beginning and gives him a speech about how the White Council can only be saved from the outside.
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Actually that makes a lot of sense, like when the Merlin took Harry to one side in Changes ordering him to lay off of Arianna, at the same time telling him that the Red Court must be annihilated.
SerScot:
I would like to see Harry and Langtree forced to wotk as a team. I’m curious to see if Harry’s expulsion from the WC means he’s out of the GC too.
For the record I would love to have seen more of the WC infighting and less of the “crack/boom”. Nothing but fight scene after fight scene is monotonous.
B33bl3br0x:
One of the things that really bothered me in the PT book was Harry and Eb both talking about how Etri was going to be super pissed at Harry if/when he found out that Harry took Thomas.
This bothers me a lot. We've been hearing and hearing about how responsibility for an action carried out by an entity's agent is basically deflected upwards in the supernatural community. That is, if you're acting as someone's agent, responsibility for the outcome of your actions belong to whomever you're working for. Harry was Lara's agent in the kidnapping of Thomas, and so she bears responsibility for it, not Harry.
Etri is, as we know, super old school, and is so in line with this proposition that he lets Listen and the other turtlenecks go after the events of Bombshells. The rest of the svartalves seem to be as well.
If everything works like it's supposed to, Harry should be in no danger of reprisals from Etri or any other member of Svartalfheim for taking Thomas. And so this entire point of story is just completely out of place.
The scene with the Svartalves trying to enter Molly's apartment from below to get Maggie also seems entirely out of character for them as well. Given that they granted the apartment to Molly and all the provisions of the transfer being as they are, attempting to force such an entry seems...less than honorable.
sayyadina:
I was fully invested at the start of the book. Then I got so disgusted I almost quit reading it. Then I made myself get back into it and found stuff that almost felt like Dresden Files. Then I got more and more numb, like I couldn't possibly be reading this since 99.9% of what I was reading felt just wrong and not Dresden Files. Didn't give a damn when it looked like Marcone died and didn't really care when the reveal happened. Which is the opposite to how I normally feel. Felt absolutely nothing with the whole Ethniu's vision thing since I knee it was fake. I was pretty beyond numb, exhausted & disgusted by that point. By the time the Lara thing happens at the end I was just done and over it all. Now I just feel so damn 2020 about it, at a place beyond all hopelessness, numbness & despair.
Jim burned every single bit of goodwill I had and I am so done. I'm grateful for the books & short stories & comics I have. Not a chance I'll buy anything new. This book pretty much killed the series for me and serves as an end.
Snark Knight:
--- Quote from: SerScot on October 01, 2020, 12:13:23 PM ---The entire thing seems somewhat... under developed given the length of time Mr. Butcher had on the story. I sincerely hope Mirror Mirror will be more of a return to form.
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To be fair, I've been thinking for years that PT was going to be the one he has to get out of the way before telling the interesting story in MM.
Although with how vaguely off the duology seemed, I hope that assessment isn't mistaken.
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