Three cheers for this idea!

Hip Hip!

Hooray!

It would be almost as bad as suggesting Justin Bieber for Thomas.

And fifth ... Mr. Butcher needs to sell another book! Just don't take so long this time I mean MY GOD!!! I started reading this series during jury duty almost two years ago. I plowed through it until two weeks before the release of Ghost Story and finally learned a painful new lesson in patience. What I enjoy most about our hero are his strange bedfellows. With Sarrisa in Summer's court and Molly in Winter, what kind of power play will unfold? Demonreach, Harry's new home and responsibility, what will being under the guidance of an anchient spirit, the manual of Winter and the influence of the Well do to him, or rather for him? Mab certainly recognizes the island as Harry's domain, is he somewhat safe from her or her influence? Can she only come if summoned, or does the fact that because the Winter in Harry is really part of Mab and because Harry's part of the island Mab's granted a temporary visa as long as she behaves?

But, I digress, back to the original question regarding Harry's daughter drama, I hope we don't encounter her again until two books from now. Somehow I imagine the Black Denarians would make an ideal set of villains in that story. Maggie, under the Carperter roof, Harry focused on the island and the Fae business, a perfect target for that group. Threaten to give Maggie a coin unless Harry finally take one himself. In the end Maggie gets one anyway, tricked into thinking it will replace a dead mother and an absent father she believes doesn't want her. Harry saves the day by taking the coin back hoping Winter will be able to control it or he can trap it in the Well. Oh the possibilities But we're jumping way too far ahead for us to see any immediate resolution to Harry's relationship with his daughter.

Just my opinion and I can't wait to read the real story!

Hey, always good to see another Texan in the mix.

I think that, with the next book being a multiple of 5, that it will be almost impossible to avoid seeing Maggie Jr. at some point.

Tbh, I found Demonreach a bit much. I can see it being a prison, maybe with a god, a naagloshii or two, and a bunch of lower level beings, but six naagloshii, as the least of the prisoners? I think there's something seriously wrong with the scale, unless Jim's retroactively hitting Shagnasty with the badass decay hammer.

I thought it was more about Jim showing us just how high the scale really goes. I mean, Harry almost took the thing before the WK powerup. Now that he is getting stronger, the baddies can show their true teeth.

A thought just occurred to me. Where the heck was Lea during all of this? If Santa can make it to Harry's birthday would it stand to reason that his godmother, a power player of winter, would have been there as well? Makes me wonder if she was up to something throughout the book

I've been thinking about that as well. We know from what both Lea and Mab have said in the past that Lea is second in power in all of Winter only to Mab. And Mab spends most of her time running the fight on the border with the Gate. So, if Mab has to be somewhere else, doesn't it make sense that Lea would take over for Mab in that capacity. At least, that is what I was thinking. And, I'm sure Lea would relish the opportunity to pay back the Nemesis for infecting her all that time ago.

One thought I had was Taye Diggs for the fixer that meets with Murphy at the beginning of Ghost Story.

That's no fun. I hope Jim feels better soon.