The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
Twelve Months, chapter one
Mira:
Just read the sampler on Amazon..
First impressions..
(click to show/hide)Harry is still suffering physically from his injuries and very much from his grief. He seems to be heavily into the guilt phase.
Wow, Chicago is really screwed up with no power. Very dystopian, however this aspect seems to be the least realistic and seems very off to me. Yeah, I understand it's a fantasy, but the rest of the country is humming along, so where is FEMA? Maybe I missed something, it was a quick skim.
Molly is really worried about Harry, I think she knows or suspects that Mab is up to something and knows that at this moment he isn't up to it.
Lara comes off a lot kinder than her usual self, much less predator more human, but her reasons for being this way are very complicated.
Possible cure for Thomas? Interesting that he is now sleeping or in an induced coma, last we heard of him he was screaming suffering from every crime he had ever committed.
Justine is still on the loose, Harry still assumes that she is pregnant and that Thomas is the father. I am not so sure of either.
Question, what exactly is the favor that Lara is going to ask?
Mr. Mouse:
--- Quote from: Mira on January 03, 2026, 01:24:12 PM ---Possible cure for Thomas? Interesting that he is now sleeping or in an induced coma, last we heard of him he was screaming suffering from every crime he had ever committed.
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Thomas was done with the screaming and dozing before Lara hit the beach back in Peace Talks.
Page 330:
--- Quote ---I felt what my brother felt. Which was not much. There was distant pain, but mostly he had simply sunk into an exhausted stupor. His mind had been overwhelmed by physical stimuli. Now he sought blessed shelter in oblivion. “He’s . . . unconscious.”
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Which is amazing. Certainly didn't take too long for Thomas to get through all the pain he'd caused others.
GreenMysticalUnicorn:
Given he spent a lot of his Whamp life trying not to be a monster, yeah, that isn't hard to believe.
Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: Mira on January 03, 2026, 01:24:12 PM ---Wow, Chicago is really screwed up with no power. Very dystopian, however this aspect seems to be the least realistic and seems very off to me. Yeah, I understand it's a fantasy, but the rest of the country is humming along, so where is FEMA? Maybe I missed something, it was a quick skim.
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Jim has made jokes about how he's being watched by the government because of his research into the effects of an EMP on a major American city. Combining that with living on the Gulf Coast with hurricanes my whole life, I find it pretty believable.
There are some parts I think would be different. The part I find hardest to believe is that many of the streets wouldn't have been made passable by the people of Chicago. Pushing cars to the side of the road isn't that hard. It depends on how much the roads were blocked by debris from the battle. The highways would be harder to make passable, though. If streets were passable, it would be pretty easy to evacuate large numbers of people. Even without the roads being cleared, it's not that hard to walk out of a disaster area.
It would take a while to clear streets. The 82nd Airborne's engineers cleared about five and a half streets a day after Katrina.
The city would probably be a ghost town. New Orleans was 90% evacuated before Katrina and the population was halved by the evacuation. Over half the people just didn't come back.
GreenMysticalUnicorn:
This has become highly politicised so I wonder if this is stalling cleanup?
I have no experience in this type of city post apocalypse clean up so I feel it’s been pretty accurate.
I also think Jim uses Chicago recovery and Harry’s healing as a metaphor through the book
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