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Bad Alias:
Regarding having more action or a main villain, I do think I would have liked 12 Months more if there was an overarching plot moving through the year other than Dresden's healing.
For example, if Harry had a little war with the ghouls or we see Harry doing something about Etri.
It wasn't that I didn't enjoy the book. It just felt a little disjointed to me. Others have described it as a collection of short stories throughout a year. I can't say I disagree.
LaraBeck:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on February 01, 2026, 08:20:28 AM ---Regarding having more action or a main villain, I do think I would have liked 12 Months more if there was an overarching plot moving through the year other than Dresden's healing.
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I was so sure this is what we were going to get, and instead it was 10 months of little stories. I don't mind either, but I have to concede the point to all the people who thought we would get 12 short stories.
Mira:
We all know that true love burns a White Court Vampire, that true love before the first feeding can block or kill the Hunger Demon, who happens to be an Outsider all together. Why? That never has been fully explained.
Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: LaraBeck on February 01, 2026, 12:05:33 PM ---I was so sure this is what we were going to get, and instead it was 10 months of little stories. I don't mind either, but I have to concede the point to all the people who thought we would get 12 short stories.
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The weird part for me is that it also doesn't feel like a collection of short stories either.
Something I hadn't considered until now is that it also really doesn't feel like a case file either. It isn't a Dresden Files book. It could be a Dresden Journal Book, but not a Dresden File.
I think a short story collection with an overarching plot or multiple highly related overarching plots would have fit the Dresden Files conceit better.
I don't think meeting the conceit is necessary for my enjoyment of the series. I'm sure if his journal entries were mostly case files, he would also have a lot of non case file entries as well. Like, "I was training Fitz on x this week and realized y is a really good way of doing x," or completely irrelevant to wizarding parenting thoughts. So the conceit of these being Harry's journals still works.
KurtinStGeorge:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on January 27, 2026, 08:21:10 PM ---Jim was planning on Murphy dying since book 11 or so. He didn't seem sure which book.
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This is a minor point but I think it's funny. Well, maybe more confusing than funny.
I've seen a video that came out sometime after Battle Ground was released; probably in 2021, where Jim answered the question, "When did you decide to kill Murphy." And you are correct, Jim said it was around time Turn Coat was released.
However, there is a new interview video that was recorded a few days before TM was released where Jim was asked the same question. Jim's answer: "I always planed to kill her off."
I have no idea which answer is true; and theoretically, they could both be lies or both be partially true. Example: Jim could have made the decision to kill Murphy off after he finished writing Blood Rites; or any other novel before Turn Coat, in which case both statements are false. On the other hand, Jim may have always known he was going to kill off Murphy but he didn't decide which novel it would happen in until after Turn Coat was released. In that case both statements contain part of the truth. I would guess the second scenario is probably the correct one, but only Jim knows for sure.
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